LISTEN: FEMA's New England Administrator On Tackling The Coronavirus Crisis

Connecticut Public Radio | By John Henry Smith

Published May 7, 2020 at 5:18 PM EDT

national guard — A member of the Connecticut National Guard pushes bins of equipment provided by FEMA into the Moore Field House at Southern Connecticut State University on March 31. A 250-bed field hospital was constructed at the site.

New London native and 26-year Coast Guard veteran Capt. W. Russell Webster is FEMA’s New England regional administrator. And he’s in charge of the agency’s response in this region to the slow-moving disaster that is the coronavirus pandemic. He spoke with our All Things Considered host, John Henry Smith, about federal aid, PPE supplies, decontamination facilities and his relationship with the Lamont administration.

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