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These photos were taken on June 5, 2008, during a

hearing of the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration, Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, U.S. Senate, on

"It Takes a Village: Community Preparedness."

(L-R) Dennis Schrader, Deputy Administrator, National

Preparedness Directorate, Federal Emergency Management

Agency, Department of Homeland Security; Russell Decker, CEM, Director of Emergency Management and Homeland Security for

Allen County, Ohio, and First Vice President of the International Association of Emergency Managers; and Suzy DeFrancis, Chief Public Affairs Officer, American Red Cross (Bill Koplitz/FEMA)

Russell Decker, CEM, Director of Emergency Management

and Homeland Security for Allen County, Ohio, and First Vice President of the International Association of Emergency Managers, testifies on community preparedness, while IAEM Policy Advisor Martha Braddock (left) looks on. (Bill Koplitz/FEMA)

(L-R) Subcommittee Chairman Mark Pryor (D-AR);

IAEM First Vice President Russell Decker, CEM;

Suzy DeFrancis, Chief Public Affairs Officer, American Red Cross;

and IAEM Policy Advisor Martha Braddock. 

Dennis Schrader, Deputy Administrator, National

Preparedness Directorate, Federal Emergency Management

Agency, Department of Homeland Security (left) talks with Russell Decker, CEM, Director of Emergency Management and Homeland Security for Allen County, Ohio, and First Vice President of the International Association of Emergency Managers, after the hearing. (Bill Koplitz/FEMA)