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TALLAHASSEE | As Florida warily enters another hurricane season, the images remain of federal and state officials plucking survivors of Katrina off rooftops in New Orleans or tossing food and water to Floridians hit by seven hurricanes in 2004 and 2005.

But Craig Fugate, director of the state Division of Emergency Management, says Floridians need to forget all of that and focus on taking care of themselves.

"The lessons we learned from Katrina aren't the right lessons," he said. In a worst-case hurricane that nails Miami and exits the state near Tampa Bay, "we don't have enough search-and-rescue teams. We don't have enough mobile kitchens. We don't have enough stuff for that kind of population."

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