Personally I don't think we are living up to the generally held belief that local and state emergency management are on the front lines of being prepared for, responding to and recovering from disasters. If it was true, then state and local jurisdictions would be shouldering more of the funding for their own programs. In actuality we have a Federally funded system of emergency management here in the United States. Without those Federal funds we'd have some pretty small programs in all but the larger cities and states.
See my video blog below on my thoughts about this Federally Funded Emergency Management System.
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