FEMA National IMAT: A Case Study

According to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), there are many factors that will affect the direction of emergency management in the coming years. These can be classified as global challenges, global opportunities, national challenges, national opportunities, professional challenges, and professional opportunities. Global Challenges include some issues like global climate change, increasing population and population density, increasing resource scarcities, rising income inequality, and increasing risk aversion. Global Opportunities has to do with increased scientific understanding of the hazards and societal responses, as well as revolutionary technologies. National Challenges involves increasing urbanization and hazard exposure, interdependencies in infrastructure, continued emphasis on growth, rising costs of disaster recovery, increasing population diversity, terrorist threats, low priority of emergency management, legal liability, and intergovernmental tensions. Due to these factors that will affect the direction of emergency management in the coming years, there is need for us at emergency management division to adjust operational plans to meet these challenges and especially changes emanating from constant changes expected in technology and other threats we face.

There has been a great development in the way the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) responds to natural disasters. Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, and wildfires in California are three major disasters that required a large FEMA response and recovery effort. These three natural disasters stressed the resources and abilities FEMA has in their arsenal. As any good organization does, FEMA learned from their experiences and mistakes in order to handle the next challenge they have to face accordingly. Hurricane Katrina affected over 15 million people, caused $81 billion in property damages, and 90,000 square miles (11 Facts About Hurricane Katrina). There was much controversy over the response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

Bioremediation is the process in which microorganisms such as bacteria, yeasts, molds, and filamentous fungi are introduced into the spills. The introduction of these microorganisms assists in altering and metabolizing various chemical compounds present in oil. When the microorganisms metabolize these certain compounds it significantly reduces the time it takes for the oil biodegradation to occur.

The new managerial module finds the best way to handle situations. In addition, they personalize situations to help citizens. They want to help, because they believe that administration should be separate from politics (Weimer & Vining, pg. 30, 2017). Using this approach gives the them the opportunity to focus on decision making and management. This method will allow for changes to be made and allocation of funds and resolutions to present issues. FEMA stated that they are below the “$1 billion margin after having to report 65 times” in 2011 to natural disasters (Colarusso & Stone, 2017). The issue is if FEMA’s funds become depleted than there is no way to reach out to those that need help. Many states do not have the major resources or funding to help their state if there is a natural disaster. There needs to be assistant programs created by the local government. Implementing these programs will help offer some relief for FEMA. For example, Georgia Emergency Management Systems/Human Services (GEMA/HS), helps those in Georgia that have been affected by a natural disaster, which in turn provides relief to FEMA. They receive a grant from the government and it is controlled by the state, local, and federal government. Every state should adapt this method, because it will replenish FEMA. Meanwhile, FEMA will not have to decline certain services, because they cannot afford to provide the

In 1979 the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was created to offer services the states had not substantially invested in and the consumer market had not offered (Moynihan, 2013). The idea was that on a national level it would be cheaper to establish one higher level agency to develop expertise on how to deal with disasters (Moynihan, 2013). Our national government has the ability to create and enforce common policies which would avoid the confusion of multiple state, local and national agencies coming together to respond in an emergency. To create a more effective response, local, state and federal agencies should follow policies that in general have the same guidelines and speak the same language; hopefully creating greater

The Department of Homeland Security was created 11 days after September 11, 2001. George W. Bush who was the President during this time established the department of Homeland Security. No American will ever forget September 11, 2001. Nineteen terrorist belonging to alQaeda hijacked four passengers’ planes. These planes took off from airports in Boston, Massachusetts, Newark, New Jersey, and Washington D.C. Two planes flew into the twin towers in New York City World Trade Center. The third plane flew into the Pentagon, damaging part of the building. The fourth plane crashed landed in an open filed in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people died that day as a result of the attacks . These terrorist attacks called for a rethinking of how the U.S.

Basic disaster assistance falls into three categories as specified by the Federal government: assistance for individuals and businesses, public assistance, and hazard mitigation assistance. The scope of this paper will cover the analysis of the elements of eligibility for disaster assistance and will follow up with a conclusion about the Public Assistance Process, utilizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Public Assistance (PA) Guide as the major resource for information.

It is my philosophy and FEMA’s mission to implement the principles of equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion, by providing employment and promotional opportunities solely on the basis of job-related skills, ability, merit and potential. FEMA is committed to equal employment for all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, etc. EEO policies are applicable to all employment practices, including recruitment, selection, promotions, terminations, transfers, layoffs, compensation, training, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment. FEMA will not request or require genetic information from job applicants or employees, or otherwise discriminate against any person

The Federal Emergency Management Agency can be traced back to the Congressional Act of 1803. This act was the result of an extensive fire in a New Hampshire town needing assistance, and is generally considered to be the first piece of disaster legislation (About the Agency, 2014). Over the next century or so, disaster legislation was put to use in response to natural disasters including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tornados, etc. approximately 100 times. The Disaster Relief Act of 1950 gave the President authority to issue disaster declarations that allowed Federal agencies to provide direct assistance to State and local governments (IS-230, 2014).

This is an appeal for damages to my home during Hurricane Irma. I was under the impression that my home insurance policy was active with Citizens Property Insurance. We submitted a claim with the insurance company on September 17, 2017 for the home damages due to the hurricane Irma (Claim # 001-00-126355).

Hello everyone! Hope all is well…As your CSAWF Liaison and Outreach Coordinator, members often ask questions regarding their benefits. The concerns ranged from understanding the benefits to securing the reimbursements.

7/25/17 a transfer ISP was done with the Can worker, ongoing worker, Christopher and Saskia Byars. The worker introduced herself and briefly developed a rapport with the family. The worker went over the reason for DHR involvement, family’s strengths and weaknesses. It was established in the meeting that Mrs. Byars will do parenting, mental health evaluation and treatment along with random drug screening. According to Mrs. Byars, she currently receives counseling services from Fox Army services on base. In additional, her oldest daughter will be receiving counseling as well. Also, It was established when Mr. Byars is working the 2 younger children will attend day care. Lastly, according to Mrs. Byars, she would like to take a trip to Germany to received counseling with her family there. Mrs. Byars, said she has some unresolved issues with her father (emotional abuse) and believes doing family

We are a few days away from our 2 week maker of Target installs; we hope to get a confirmation soon we can start arraigning for product shipment along with booking our travels.

Due to Hurricane Irma, the UCF Knights game against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets scheduled for Saturday at Spectrum Stadium has been cancelled. The was not canceled due to damage to the stadium, but to relief efforts for the State of Florida.

My experience with hurricane Irma wasn't that bad, me and my family decide to stay in the area. Which we gathered with the rest of my family where we stayed with my aunt who owns a brick house in Gadsden county, FL. We were a little behind on the hurricane preparation but collected the necessary items we need to stay safety from the hurricane so we were ready for it. as the hurricane was passing in the area last Sunday wasn't that bad it was just breezy nothing that serious.But the next day that when the hurricane was hitting hard with a lot of rain ,and very strong winds. that same morning the electrics went out branches were beginning to fly off the trees and even some of them were falling to the ground. I was cool with the trees and branches