31.   Emergency management officials in the area point out that the new link would speed evacuation of the Outer Banks in the event of a hurricane.

32.   Emergency management officials planned to open hurricane shelters to help those who need refuge from the storm.

33.   Emergency management officials Wednesday began evacuating residents of Hilton Head, N.C., a low-lying resort island that is part of the Outer Banks.

34.   Emergency management officials from southeast Georgia and northeast Florida will meet in Kingsland to work on evacuation efforts via staggered traffic.

35.   Emergency management officials in North Carolina urged residents of barrier islands and low-lying beaches to secure their homes and property and go inland.

36.   Emergency management teams were on standby in coastal areas of all three states last night.

37.   Examples include establishing a statewide system for mass vaccinations and vastly increasing the size of the emergency management division of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

38.   Federal emergency management officials could not say how long it would take for them to inspect eight counties in Missouri and four counties in Kansas.

39.   Fuel distributors refused to send tankers loaded with gasoline over roads lined with flames, forcing emergency management officials to dip into fuel stores saved for hurricane evacuations.

40.   He renounced council ambitions and stepped back to be the unsalaried emergency management coordinator.