FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer Jaime E. Forero and New York State Emergency Management Office (SEMO) Public Assistance Chief Christopher Holmes speak to media representatives from YNN News and WKBW Channel 7 during a media tour of the joint field office.A major disaster declaration was signed on Sept. 1, 2009, after torrential storms and flooding inundated western New York in early August. FEMA/Jacqueline Chandler