WNED: Buffalo Needs to Revise Evacuation Plans (2008-09-24)

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Buffalo Needs to Revise Evacuation Plans

Jim Ranney (2008-09-24)

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BUFFALO (wned) - Just weeks after Americans watched the cities of New Orleans and Galveston evacuate residents under hurricane threats, a professor of architecture and planning at UB says Buffalo and many other upstate cities are ill-prepared to deal with the emergency evacuation of residents.

Dr. Daniel Hess, who has studied the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, evaluated emergency plans in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany.

He shared his concerns with WNED's Jim Ranney. Click the LISTEN icon above to hear their conversation. © Copyright 2009, wned