Tim Kennedy on FEMA: ‘They Are Directly Interrupting Our Ability to Conduct Missions’

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KENNEDY: "I mean, they are present, they are in the way. They are directly interrupting our ability to conduct missions and operations. And I will not disparage anybody because we’re trying to work within partner relationships, both government and non-government entities within state and federal and county. You know, I went to put a couple people into a hotel last night, they have a security guard at the hotel, they said, 'Oh, we're so sorry, the entire hotel has been booked for federal employees.' And I was like, 'No, no, I have people that were just pulled out of a mountain, that are living out in the hills, and there's not a place for me to put them because we have federal employees that are staying in the hotel?' I slept in this white car last night, I smell like foot and death right now, as does every single person on our team. Not a single one of us slept. We got there at maybe 3 o'clock, the moment the sun was up and we could fly helicopters again. We were back in the air and we have not stopped. I was, like, on the fence about trying to get on this program or not. I want people to understand how incredible this organization is, Save Our Allies, and all the work that all of these volunteers are doing, but people, this is biblical level devastation. This is apocalyptic, the things that we see out there."