 FEMA is NOT a first responder and normally would have had very little do with evacuation arrangements depending upon the the city and state to have worked that out .
<meaning-changed>  FEMA is NOT a first responder and normally would have had very little do with evacuation arrangements depending upon the the city and state to have worked that out .
 FEMA is NOT a first responder and normally would have had very little do with evacuation arrangements depending upon the the job of FEMA to coordinate between the various local jurisdictions such as the OPSB and the City of New Orleans in this case. That is, under the rules of prior hurricane responses, FEMA would ask all local jurisdictions for a list of resources under their control. Then FEMA would have taken a request from Nagin for buses, relayed it to the Orleans Parish School Board or other local jurisdictions which had buses, and at that point the OPSB would have provided the buses to Nagin. That coordination did not happen here, but it is unclear whether Nagin ever made such a request prior to the hurricane and after the hurricane they were underwater and useless .