Has legal authority for emergency response and recovery and serves as the point of contact between local and federal governments?
What is State Government?
100
This was the earliest effort to provide disaster relief on a Federal Level after a fire devastated a New Hampshire town?
Congressional Act of 1803
100
Effective incident management begins with a host of preparedness activities conducted on a “steady-state” basis, well in advance of any potential incident. Preparedness involves an integrated combination of planning, training, exercises, personnel qualification and certification standards, equipment acquisition and certification standards, and publication management processes and activities.
What is Preparedness?
100
Federal Emergency Management Agency
What is FEMA?
100
Emergency Managers value a science and knowledge based approach based on education, training, experience, ethical practice, public stewardship, and continuous improvement.
What is Professional
200
Has direct responsibility for the safety of its people, knowledge of the situation and accompanying resource requirements and proximity to both event and resources?
What is Local Government?
200
This was the first comprehensive legislation pertaining to Federal disaster relief and gave the President the authority to issue disaster declarations that allowed federal agencies to provide direct assistance to state and local government?
What is the Defense Act of 1950
200
This component establishes an activity to provide strategic direction for and oversight of NIMS, supporting both routine review and the continuous refinement of the system and its components over the long term.
What is Ongoing Management and Maintenance.
200
National Incident Management System?
What is NIMS?
200
Integrated?
Emergency Managers ensure unity of effort among all levels of government and all elements of the community.
300
has the legal authorities, fiscal resources, research capabilities, technical information and services, and specialized personnel to assist?
What is Federal Government?
300
This merged many of separate disaster-related responsibilities into a new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)?
What is Executive Order 12127?
300
NIMS defines standardized mechanisms and establishes requirements for processes to describe, inventory, mobilize, dispatch, track, and recover resources over the life cycle of an incident.
What is Resource Management?
300
Volunteer Organizations Active in Disasters?
What is VOAD?
300
Emergency managers anticipate future disasters and take protective, preventive and preparatory measures to build disaster resistant and disaster resilient communities.
What is Progressive?
400
Are responsible for coordinating resources to address actual or potential incidents of a federally recognized Indian tribe and recognizes their right to self government.
What is Tribal Government?
400
This created the system in place today by which a Presidential declaration triggers financial and physical assistance through FEMA?
What is Stafford Act?
400
This is designed to enable effective and efficient incident management and coordination by providing a flexible, standardized incident management structure.
What is Command and Management?
400
IAEM
What is International Association of Emergency Managers?
400
Emergency Managers use sound risk management principles (threat/hazard identification, risk analysis and impact analysis) in assigning priorities and resources.
What is Risk Driven?
500
Are responsible for coordinating resources to address actual or potential incidents. Examples are the Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico where challenges exist because of their remote location.
What is Territorial and insular area Government?
500
PKEMRA?
What is Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006?
500
NIMS identifies the requirement for a standardized framework for communications, information management (collection, analysis, and dissemination), and information-sharing at all levels of incident management.
What is Communication and Information Management?
500
Citizen Corps' Community Emergency Response Team
What is CERT?
500
Coordinated?
What is Emergency Managers synchronize the activities of all relevant stakeholders to achieve a common purpose?