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At its simplest and most succinct, the mission of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA, 2018a) is “helping people before, during, and after emergencies,” (p. 1). To fulfill this mission, FEMA engages in a variety of related actions including strategic planning, intelligence gathering, communication, and coordination. FEMA conducts risk assessments, helps communities build resilience, and helps to protect or recovery essential services. FEMA (2018b) also outlines its five core mission areas, which include prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. FEMA remains active at each of these stages of emergency management and does not discriminate against any one type of emergency, playing as integral a role in natural disaster management as in technological, cyber, and terrorist-related incidents.
Prevention involves strategic planning, information gathering, intelligence sharing, threat detection, and any other activity that would involve stopping a problem before it manifests. Protection is a phase during which a disaster may be unpreventable, but yet still early enough to offer effective public information related to evacuation, interdiction, and physical protection from known threats. Disaster mitigation refers to the minimization of loss or damage, which is why building community resilience in both short and long terms is central to FEMA’s (2018b) mission. The response...
Finally, recovery refers to social/humanitarian as well as economic and infrastructural needs. Because the FEMA mission is complex and all encompassing, it is sufficient for handling a large nation’s emergency management operations. More importantly, FEMA recognizes the need for states to remain full partners in disaster prevention, mitigation, management, and recovery.
States play an integral role in the disaster management process as it is overseen by FEMA. In many ways, states serve as liaisons between local stakeholders and FEMA. Local governments cannot directly access federal funds, programs, or resources—they must go through the appropriate state government channels first (FEMA, n.d.). While the middleman role may seem unnecessarily cumbersome, bureaucratic, and perhaps time consuming in the midst of a crisis, it is in fact the most efficient disaster management system possible. The methods by which local governments ask for and receive what they need have been largely predetermined through the systematic planning and preparation that has already taken place with FEMA’s help.…
Disaster Management The Transformation of Disaster Management The 20th century would see an evolution in nearly every area of federal management in public affairs, with the roles, responsibilities and resources required to do the duty of the people being perpetually clarified and refined. One area in particular which remains even today in a state of constant evolution is that of disaster management. Indeed, this stands among the most unpredictable, challenging and constantly
Disaster Management; Tornado Tornado After a powerful tornado, 60% of businesses and a residential area have been destroyed. This has led to a series of negative events that need to be dealt with. These events include the town having no working lights, reports of residents' children and spouses missing, and even reports of gunfire. At this point, the state is aware of the disaster that has hit this town and the Governor
Local, State and Federal Partnership: Terrorism National Response Framework (NRF) National Response Framework is a document that guides and presents an integrated national rejoinder to emergencies and disasters stipulating how all hazardous responses are conducted by nations (Alperen 2011). It deals with the large catastrophes and the smaller incidences. A comprehensive approach is established to respond to domestic incidences with the framework spelling out key responses that are principle, as well as
A b) Event management People react differently when faced with disaster, some may respond and follow the disaster response plan without a problem, other may forget key instructions and follow their own plans, the most dangerous situations however, are when individuals freeze and fail to act when disaster strikes. Response before, during and after a disaster can be the difference between life and death. (Bridegan et al., 1997) Failure to heed
A lack of local understanding by FEMA and & #8230;. Caused a clear inability for these agencies to exercise their logistics plan during such a catastrophic event. The first clear weakness was experienced by FEMA, the national organization appointed to deal with supplementing local relief efforts and providing extended services to those in need in an event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack. FEMA is supposed to work as
Disaster Management: Emergency Response Plans Emergencies and disasters normally occur without warning and if not well prepared for, the effects can be devastating. The state of Wisconsin, for example, deals with damages caused by various natural disasters every year. According to The Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs (2015), it has incurred losses amounting to $3 billion from disasters in the last 30 years. More specifically, in Milwaukee, damages caused by tornadoes