FEMA

Introduction Throughout its history, FEMA has had two main missions. First, FEMA’s mission is to enhance the federal government 's capacity to deal with and survive foreign attacks. The main types of foreign attacks that FEMA is tasked to respond to relate to terrorist attacks and nuclear war. The second mission of FEMA is to assist state and local authori¬ties to respond to man-made and natural disasters that are to enormous for the local and state resources to respond to efficiently. While national

citizens that stayed in the city, FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is responsible for coordinating the government’s role in preparation, prevention, response and recovery from domestic disaster, whether they be natural or man-made. FEMA.gov lists 1849 total disasters declared since 1953, with an average of 32 each year (13). This particular agency has generated a lot of praise and but just as much criticism. Over the course of FEMA’s history, there are many lessons to be learned and FEMA is always looking for ways to be

disaster seasons! Anywhere you live in the world there is some form of disaster. It might not affect you or your family, but there are lives that had been lost because people do not follow the proper steps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). To tell you the truth, I am one of them. Ever since I moved from New York to reside in Florida, I was told that my area is a no flood zone. Florida landscape is almost as flat as a pancake and is below sea level. As I scroll through the list

York's recovery efforts, none played a greater or more controversial role than FEMA, which was chosen to disburse $8.8 billion in aid. (Chen, Bagli, & Hernandez, 2002) For the first time in its history, FEMA paid 100% of claims across the board, instead of splitting it 75%-25% with the affected community, and, for the first time, instead of reimbursing all qualified claims, FEMA aid was capped. (New York Daily News, 2005) FEMA assisted in New York City’s recovery by utilizing its full spectrum of disaster

of the community could be abused by the wrong people. FEMA was created to help those in need in the event of a catastrophe but, others are literally robbing the victims because of their own selfish reasons. Fraud is illegal, those thieves should be prosecuted. PROPOSAL The first thing I propose FEMA does is find out what people really felt went wrong during Hurricane Katrina. You heard a lot in those days of how FEMA should have reacted and what they did not do to help the people. During this

mentioned the head of FEMA at the time saying “Of the more than 20 major programs, the earthquake, hurricane, and flood programs ranked near the bottom” (p. 9). Fortunately for mankind, nuclear war never transpired, although, hurricane Andrew, Hugo, and the infamous Loma Prieta earthquake did (Haddow et al., 2011). These events exposed what happens when you look the other way for a disaster, while another type walks right through your front door. The failure of FEMA during these events brought

assistance and aid to the affected area (The Disaster Hanbook- National Edition, 1998). The President of the United States of America must make a declaration of emergency and major disaster to initiate the effort to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (The Disaster Hanbook- National Edition, 1998). Once a disaster has been declared, the U.S president will send supplementary funds to the state and local efforts to aid the affected population (The Disaster Hanbook- National Edition, 1998). In order

FEMA was not able to provide effective disaster relief due to incompetent leadership. Those in charge, such as FEMA Director Michael D. Brown were unqualified and in power because of connections to the Bush Administration. Bush’s saving grace in this category was his quick passing of the “PATRIOT Act”. Though

FEMA stands for federal emergency management agency. It is one of the federal agency which is responsible for coordinating with the federal government in any kind of disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes etc. It was established on June19, 1978 under the 1978 Reorganization Plan No 3, later activated on April 1, 1979 by the President Jimmy Carter in his executive order 12127. “1-101. Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 (43 FR 41943), which establishes the Federal Emergency Management Agency, provides