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What We Do
Advising on building codes and flood plain management...teaching people
how to get through a disaster...helping equip local and state emergency
preparedness...coordinating the federal response to a disaster...making
disaster assistance available to states, communities, businesses and individuals...training
emergency managers...supporting the nation's fire service...administering
the national flood and crime insurance programs...the range of FEMA's activities
is broad indeed.
One way to look at what FEMA does is to think about the life cycle of
disasters. Some of the functions involved are shown below.
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The disaster life cycle describes the
process through which emergency managers prepare
for emergencies and disasters, respond
to them when they occur, help people and institutions recover
from them, mitigate their effects, reduce
the risk of loss, and prevent disasters
such as fires from occurring. |
And at every stage of this cycle you see FEMA -- the federal agency charged
with building and supporting the nation's emergency management system.
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