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- See also changes related to Federal Emergency Management Agency, or pages that link to Federal Emergency Management Agency or to this page or whose text contains "Federal Emergency Management Agency".
Parent topics
- Disaster response [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Department of Homeland Security [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- National Incident Management System [r]: A system for managing emergencies and special incidents, including the Incident Command System at the tactical level and under the National Response Framework at the national policy level [e]
- Stafford Act [r]: Principal legal authority for U.S. Federal assistance in domestic disasters [e]
Leadership
- James Witt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Michael Brown [r]: A black youth killed in 2014 in a controversial police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri [e]
Operations
- 9-11 Attack [r]: A massive terrorist attack on the United States, occurring on September 11, 2001. [e]
- Hurricane Katrina [r]: The most economically destructive hurricane to strike the United States, making landfall on 28 August 2005 [e]
- Hurricane Hugo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oklahoma City bombing [r]: 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, that killed 168 people (including 19 children) and wounded more than 700. [e]
- Biological weapon [r]: Living organisms, or substances produced by living organisms, used as weapons to produce death or disease in human or agricultural populations [e]
- Chemical weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Decontamination [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Federal Bureau of Investigation [r]: The principal U.S. Federal police agency, part of the U.S. Department of Justice and the United States intelligence community , who has arrest authority, and is the primary authority for a variety of domestic crimes, civilian counterespionage within the United States, and organized crime [e]
- Incident Command System [r]: An increasingly worldwide set of procedures and doctrines for operational response to emergencies requiring response from different organizations, ranging from multiple units of the same local fire department or police force, to major disasters covering large regions and requiring national or international resources [e]
- Meteorology [r]: The interdisciplinary scientific study of the processes and phenomena of the atmosphere, including weather studies and forecasting [e]
- Nuclear weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Radiological weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Three Mile Island [r]: A partial meltdown of the nuclear power core (i.e., the assembly of fissionable material and its supporting structure) at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in 1979 [e]