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This is a list of United States federal Disaster/Emergency Declarations, managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. [1] [2] This list does not differentiate between States, Territories and Tribal Nations.
Declaration of an unlimited national emergency under threat from Nazi Germany. [15] Ended Truman: December 16, 1950 [9] September 14, 1978 Proclamation 2914 [16] Proclaiming the Existence of a National Emergency: Declared that the United States' "military, naval, air and civilian defenses" should be used to fight communism as part of the Korean ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979. [1]
FEMA disaster declarations in North Carolina Here are the North Carolina counties that are eligible for individual assistance in the aftermath of Helene, according to FEMA’s website on Sept. 30 ...
Connecticut’s emergency operations center is monitoring the situation and has deployed an urban search and rescue team to Southbury, the state’s Emergency Management and Homeland Security ...
More than 4 million people across five states were under winter storm alerts on Sunday as heavy lake-effect snow continued to bury the Great Lakes region, prompting emergency declarations and the ...
The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, commonly known as the Stafford Act, [1] is a 1988 United States federal law designed to bring an orderly and systematic means of federal natural disaster assistance for state and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to aid citizens. Congress's intention was ...
The first President to issue an emergency proclamation [5] [6] was Woodrow Wilson, who on February 5, 1917, issued the following: . I have found that there exists a national emergency arising from the insufficiency of maritime tonnage to carry the products of the farms, forests, mines and manufacturing industries of the United States, to their consumers abroad and within the United States ....