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The United States’ Emergency Management Institute (EMI), of the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), serves as the United States’ focal point for the development and delivery of emergency management training. The emergency management training improves the capabilities of state, territorial, local, and tribal government ...
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]
The agency is also the administrator of New York City's community emergency response teams. Each community emergency response team (CERT) is coterminous with one or more New York community boards. New York City Emergency Management maintains the Citywide Incident Management System [6] which is based on the National Incident Management System.
World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, New York, New York and Washington, D.C. - September 11, 2001; 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, Utah - February 8–24, 2002 (Task Forces acted in a supporting role) Hurricane Katrina - August 27 - September 30, 2005 [5] 2010 Port-au-Prince, Haiti earthquake [6] 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand ...
Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) (The transition from Emergency Medical Technician-Enhanced to AEMT occurred between 2013 and 2016.) EMT-Intermediate (EMT-I) (As of January 1, 2020 no new certifications are issued.
NY-TF1 is managed by the NYC Office of Emergency Management (NYCOEM) and its members mainly come from Fire Department of New York and the New York City Police Department. [1] After the 2010 Haiti earthquake the team deployed to Haiti and rescued a pair of siblings from a collapsed building on January 21, 2010. [2]
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recommends that the standard, minimum ten-person team be comprised as follows: [2] CERT leader/incident commander. Generally, the first CERT team member arriving on the scene is the designated incident commander (IC) until the arrival of someone more competent.