Woonsocket, RI, 08/09/2007 -- On the second day of a two-day prototype "Point of Delivery" (POD) event hosted by the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency in conjunction with FEMA, participants from 27 Rhode Island communities along with representatives from the states of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire set up and operated an actual POD site with the help of approximately 150 local volunteer "recipients". The event underscored the importance of a communities' need to know the mechanics and methods required to establish a POD site in their cities and towns immediately following a catastrophic event. FEMA photo by Win Henderson
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Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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2007
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The U.S. National Archives
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