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Examples include local cities and counties, school districts, zoo's, special government districts, public authorities (e.g., water, sewer, or transportation authorities) and houses of worship. A facility must be a building, public works system, equipment or natural feature. These include buildings, grounds, physical property and equipment.
In 1995, the generator had "282 sentence skeletons, 170 independent clauses, 183 adjectives, and 123 nouns". The combination of these elements can form more than one billion sentences. [7] As of September 2009, the generator has expanded to 3379 independent clauses, 618 adjectives, and 497 nouns. [8]
As a result, FEMA became part of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate of Department of Homeland Security, employing more than 2,600 full-time employees. It became Federal Emergency Management Agency again on March 31, 2007, but remained in DHS. [19] President Bush appointed Michael D. Brown as FEMA's director in January 2003 ...
The Emergency Response Guidebook: A Guidebook for First Responders During the Initial Phase of a Dangerous Goods/Hazardous Materials Transportation Incident (ERG) is used by emergency response personnel (such as firefighters, paramedics and police officers) in Canada, Mexico, and the United States when responding to a transportation emergency involving hazardous materials.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) created Risk Rating 2.0 to help create more fairly rated flood insurance policies by taking more rating factors into consideration.
The National Public Warning System, also known as the Primary Entry Point (PEP) stations, is a network of 77 radio stations that are, in coordination with FEMA, used to originate emergency alert and warning information to the public before, during, and after incidents and disasters.
Kirk, J.S. ed.Emergency Relief in North Carolina a Record of the Development and the Activities of the North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration 1932–1935 (1936) 544 pp; complete text online; McElvaine, Robert S. Down & out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man" (1983); letters to Harry Hopkins; online
A teen community emergency response team (teen CERT), or student emergency response team (SERT), can be formed from any group of teens. [1] A teen CERT can be formed as a school club, service organization, venturing crew, explorer post, or the training can be added to a school's graduation curriculum. Some CERTs form a club or service ...