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State lawmakers want to know if the Department of Emergency Management is prepared to handle a terrorist attack. Earlier this month the head of the department stepped down under accusations of sexism and poor job performance. State Senator Dave Aronberg, the chairman of the Senate Military Affairs and Domestic Security Committee, sent a letter to the new interim director of the department asking if there was any reason to be alarmed.

“We’ve seen what happened with FEMA at the Federal level, with an emergency agency that wasn’t up to par. Floridians deserve better and we’re just going to make sure that this agency is ready to go forward in the year 2010. After the terrorist attempt over the skies of the United States, we know that people are still gunning for us and the emergency management agency in Florida needs to be on the ball and needs to be just as prepared today as it was under Craig Fugate,” said Aronberg.

The Department of Emergency Management is welcoming the concerns and is currently reviewing the ten questions in Aronberg’s letter and isn’t ready to respond.