FEMA’s Emergency Operations Vehicle arrived in Lufkin from Denton, Texas, late in the afternoon. FEMA parked the eighty-two-foot-long tractor trailer in the lot adjacent to the Civic Center. A section of the trailer expanded sideways, forming a work area that accommodated a twenty-five-person FEMA response team. Equipped with electrical generators, satellite radio transceivers, computers, desks, file servers, printers, and copiers, it was FEMA’s self-contained command center.
