That's an EMS (Emergency Medical Services) disaster bus.

It's used to evacuate medical patients from disaster scenes.

It's not owned or operated by FEMA, but might have been purchased with a FEMA grant.

This is a local bus as others have stated.

Even if it was not why do yall think it is for anything bad for all we know it could be to get help to wherever an emergency is.

I have seen many vehicles like this for years, heck the fire department here I live has something similar to this its a regular bus with lights on the top and is painted red.

FFS! I hate to burst your bubble, but if you notice there is a star of life on the side. Hence an EMS vehicle. I work EMS in NC and SC, we have already been trained on these "FEMA buses" and they are for mass evac of large density area's such as nursing homes, and hospitals that need patients that are bed bound or ICU patients. The ones that we were trained on had 3 tiers that would hold patients on stretchers in route to a facility that offers equal or higher level of care. So chill out, we were trained on these for hurricane season.

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yeah good luck, Like really. What kind of EMERGENCY and what kind of CONTAINMENT.. would need an area ...?? hmmm

Originally posted by KingAtlas
yeah good luck, Like really. What kind of EMERGENCY and what kind of CONTAINMENT.. would need an area ...?? hmmm

Every emergency needs an area, a safety zone where you can treat people safely who need care.

Well the bus will be easy to locate with all those lights on it. 8 flood on the back alone. Might look like the second coming with them all turned on.

The second video with the sign was disturbing for some reason. The color maybe, or the text. It was strange. Maybe just part of the H1N1 preparedness plan.

BTW the waht kind of emergency comment was a joke reffering to the way he said it in the 2nd video..
lmao ~WHY SO SSSSSSERIOUS *quote Joker in the Dark knight

Brunswick County is a large, coastal county in NC, south of the Cape Fear River. It regularly gets the stuffing kicked out of it by hurricanes, so evacuation support is needed.

Seriously, why no windows? Also in the last seconds of the clip you can see a bus, of some sort, behind him as well. What's up with that? It may have given us more context. Isn't Brunswick a coastal county? I'm sure they used their Federally allocated DHS money for that ride and justified it as part of their Hurricane preparedness plans.

Edit...aww wrong state.

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Originally posted by kosmicjack


Seriously, why no windows? Also in the last seconds of the clip you can see a bus, of some sort, behind him as well. What's up with that? It may have given us more context. Isn't Brunswick a coastal county? I'm sure they used their Federally allocated DHS money for that ride and justified it as part of their Hurricane preparedness plans.

Edit...aww wrong state.

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Maybe it's a mobile command post, a forward unit of some kind. That would explain the missing windows.

I'm curious to know if anybody has photos, video, or has observed similar mass evacuation busses in their communities.

This wouldn't be such a big deal if they were common. But, since it seems FEW have actually seen these in their communities, it's a newer resource for local/state/federal governments.

This, of course, draws a little mystery behind it. And given the recent actions of this government, seeming as though they are tyrannical and overstepping their constitutional duties regularly, people are uneasy with this kind of mystery.

Here is a picture of the inside of that particular bus:



As a Paramedic also I have seen a lot of FEMA grant stuff, and Homeland Security stuff show up as a part of grant packages.

Our service got three beautiful enclosed trailers for disaster equipment from FEMA right after Katrina and they have been sitting in the parking lot of the ambulance service for three years now. They are basically just storage units that arose out of the FEMA-noia after Katrina.

After all the bitching about the slow and inadequate FEMA response to Katrina the govt has gone WAY OVERBOARD on this stuff. All around the country there are millions of dollars of disaster equipment rotting away like the trailers they gave the homeless folks.

More often than not the folks who bitched about Katrina are the ones bitching about FEMA now. You can't have it both ways.

When I first saw this bus the thought went through my head, there are no windows because this is going to be full of bodies that wont be seeing again.

But maybe it is just a 911 bus, for mass casualties. Things like that tend to happen here in America.

And for those who say no windows to keep things in, it also keeps things out as well.