Recovery Diva
JANUARY 25, 2025
The Diva has been involved in emergency management work since before 1979, which is the year that FEMA was formed. I remember that the driving force behind its formation was pressure by a group of governors who met with President Carter and asked him to do something to make the process of obtaining federal help/assistance for major disasters easier.
Recovery Diva
JANUARY 25, 2025
From CNN: Everyone agrees FEMA needs to change. The question is how. ” Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts. Increasingly frequent weather disasters have strained its workforce and drained its Congress-funded coffers. And, since the first Trump administration, the agency has had further strain from bankrolling Covid recovery and paying states to shelter migrants.
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