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Redlands fire chief impressed with Haitians' patience after disaster -

Published on Friday, February 05, 2010
By JAN SEARS


Redlands fire Chief Jeff Frazier's time in Haiti was an exercise in patience and diplomacy.

Patience was what he saw in the Haitian people in Port-au-Prince, who had every reason to angry with their circumstances after a 7.0 earthquake devastated their city, he said.

Diplomacy what was he learned it took to get things done. It was a matter of ask, don't tell, said Frazier, who was sent to Haiti as part of a Federal Emergency Management Agency incident support team. The team worked with USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is more accustomed to working abroad, he said.

"You're working in a very different kind of command structure. They are more aware of international relationships," said Frazier, sitting in his City Hall office. "It's not, 'You will go do this.' It's more like, 'This needs to be done   Read Full Article...

 
 

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