Information about Comprehensive Emergency Management.
Comprehensive Emergency Management, as defined in various laws throughout the United States, is the preparation for and the carrying out of all emergency functions, other than functions for which the military forces are primarily responsible, to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies and disasters, and to aid victims suffering from injury or damage, resulting from disasters caused by all hazards, whether natural, technological, or human caused, and to provide support for search and rescue operations for persons and property in distress.[1]
Comprehensive Emergency Management is the philosophy that gave birth to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the eventual decline of the term Civil defense in the United States. Under Comprehensive Emergency Management, attention is given to the full range of emergencies from small weather incidents to the "ultimate emergency" of war. Its "all-hazards" philosophy stands in contrast to previous state and federal emergency management that focused solely on a massive nuclear war with the Soviet Union.[2]
Comprehensive Emergency Management is the philosophy that gave birth to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the eventual decline of the term Civil defense in the United States. Under Comprehensive Emergency Management, attention is given to the full range of emergencies from small weather incidents to the "ultimate emergency" of war. Its "all-hazards" philosophy stands in contrast to previous state and federal emergency management that focused solely on a massive nuclear war with the Soviet Union.[2]
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- [gopher://home.jumpjet.info/11\Comprehensive_Emergency_Management Comprehensive Emergency Management Reference Material Repository] (gopher link)
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA
New FEMA seal
Agency overview
Formed March 30, 1979
Employees 2,600
Annual Budget $8.02 billion (2008) [1]
Agency Executive R.
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FEMA
New FEMA seal
Agency overview
Formed March 30, 1979
Employees 2,600
Annual Budget $8.02 billion (2008) [1]
Agency Executive R.
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Civil Defense or Civil Defence (see spelling differences) is an effort to prepare civilians for military attack. Since the end of the Cold War the concept has been replaced by a more general intent to protect the civilian population in times of peace as well as in times of
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Motto
"In God We Trust" (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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"In God We Trust" (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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Nuclear, or atomic warfare, is a war in which nuclear weapons are used. This has only happened once - the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States of America against the Empire of Japan near the end of World War II.
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated USSR, Russian: (help info ) ; tr.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA
New FEMA seal
Agency overview
Formed March 30, 1979
Employees 2,600
Annual Budget $8.02 billion (2008) [1]
Agency Executive R.
..... Click the link for more information.
FEMA
New FEMA seal
Agency overview
Formed March 30, 1979
Employees 2,600
Annual Budget $8.02 billion (2008) [1]
Agency Executive R.
..... Click the link for more information.
Civil Defense or Civil Defence (see spelling differences) is an effort to prepare civilians for military attack. Since the end of the Cold War the concept has been replaced by a more general intent to protect the civilian population in times of peace as well as in times of
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United States civil defense refers to the use of civil defense in the history of the United States, which is the organized non-military effort to prepare American civilians for military attack.
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