Heading off disaster, one tweet at a time

FEMA chief, Craig Fugate, was not aware about the San Bruno explosion until later and used his android phone to sign on to twitter to read more about the local disaster.

After a few minutes he says he determined the gas explosion and ensuing fire, though horrible, was a localized event and wouldn't spread to other communities.

"I got better situational awareness [from Twitter] before we got official word," he said. "Four or five years ago I wouldn't have gotten that quality of information."

With the Worlds growing technologies, the government should easily be able to make people be aware of local disasters and spread it around the United States. People shouldn't have to rely on twitter, facebook or other internet sites to read and get news about disaster such as the one in San Bruno. When people find out about disaster before the government does, theres obviously a problem with their awareness within the country