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  2. Shelter-in-place - Wikipedia

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    Shelter in place in radiological and chemical defense scenarios entails closing all household doors, windows, and vents and taking immediate shelter in a readily accessible location that puts as much indoor air and radiation shielding-mass between the individual and the hazardous outside air, such as a basement or centrally located medium to small room, and trying to make it as airtight as ...

  3. National Shelter System - Wikipedia

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    The American Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) together developed the National Shelter System (NSS).Under the National Response Plan, now called the National Response Framework, the American Red Cross is the Co-Primary Agency with FEMA responsible for the Mass Care portion of Emergency Support Function #6 - Mass Care, Temporary Housing and Human Services.

  4. Federal Emergency Management Agency - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979. [1]

  5. What does a shelter-in-place order really mean? - AOL

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    As the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact the United States and countries around the world, families are finding daily life increasingly restricted.

  6. Civil defense in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Originally an independent agency, FEMA was absorbed into DHS in 2003. Before the creation of FEMA in 1979 the responsibility for civil defense in the United States was shared between a wide variety of short-lived and frequently changing departments, agencies, and organizations. Some of the notable national pre-FEMA organizations in the US included:

  7. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act

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    It created the system in place today by which a presidential disaster declaration or an emergency declaration triggers financial and physical assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency [3] (FEMA). The Act gives FEMA the responsibility for coordinating government-wide relief efforts.

  8. Sacramento County may lose millions in FEMA reimbursement for ...

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    Sacramento County expected $9 million for pandemic homeless shelters. The money might not be coming.

  9. FEMA puts restrictions in place as disaster relief ... - AOL

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