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  2. Landslide victory - Wikipedia

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    A map of the vote by province in 1984 shows the scale of the Progressive Conservatives' landslide victory. In a Canadian federal election, a landslide victory occurs when a political party gains a significant majority of the House of Commons of Canada. Landslide victories may also occur during provincial elections, and territorial elections in ...

  3. FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force - Wikipedia

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    The teams are deployed to emergency and disaster sites within six hours of notification. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) created the Task Force concept to provide support for large scale disasters in the United States. FEMA provides financial, technical and training support for the Task Forces as well as creating and verifying ...

  4. Federal Emergency Management Agency - Wikipedia

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    Federal disaster relief and recovery was brought under the umbrella of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in 1973 by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973, [11] and the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration was created as an organizational unit within the department. This agency would oversee disasters until ...

  5. FEMA’s Role in Natural Disaster Response, Explained

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    The 1988 Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act provides the legal authority for most FEMA programs and federal disaster response and is the legal mechanism through which ...

  6. FEMA employee fired after advising disaster relief team not ...

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    A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee was fired after advising a survivor assistance team not to visit homes with yard signs that support President-elect Donald Trump during Hurricane ...

  7. Republicans vow to investigate FEMA over claims ‘unhinged ...

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    Her Florida-based FEMA team skirted around 20 homes with Trump signs or flags between late October and early November — preventing the residents from being able to sign up for federal disaster ...

  8. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act

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    The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) [1] is a 1988 United States federal law designed to bring an orderly and systematic means of federal natural disaster assistance for state and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to aid citizens. Congress's intention was to encourage states ...

  9. FEMA employee fired for urging team to not help homes with ...

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    The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency - whose mission is to help people before, during and after disasters - fired an employee who advised her survivor assistance team in Florida to not go ...