Disaster Organizations
American Red Cross
Being prepared for emergencies is crucial at home, school, work and in your community.
Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood, workplace or school or can confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services - water, gas, electricity or telephones - were cut off?
Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone right away. The best way to make you and your family safer is to be prepared before disaster strikes. The American Red Cross helps prepare communities for emergencies and keep people safe every day.
For more information about the Red Cross, visit their site at: http://www.redcross.org
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
DISASTER. It strikes anytime, anywhere. It takes many forms -- a hurricane, an earthquake, a tornado, a flood, a fire or a hazardous spill, an act of nature or an act of terrorism. It builds over days or weeks, or hits suddenly, without warning. Every year, millions of Americans face disaster, and its terrifying consequences.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is a part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The primary mission of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is to reduce the loss of life and property and protect the Nation from all hazards, including natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters, by leading and supporting the Nation in a risk-based, comprehensive emergency management system of preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation.
For more information about FEMA, visit their site at: http://www.fema.gov
National Hurricane Center (NHC)
Each year the National Hurricane Center (NHC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provide preparedness information to private citizens and public officials prior to the Hurricane season that begins on June 1.
Their Mission is to save lives, mitigate property loss, and improve economic efficiency by issuing the best watches, warnings, forecasts and analyses of hazardous tropical weather, and by increasing understanding of these hazards.
For more information about NHC, visit their sites at: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
National Weather Service (NWS)
The National Weather Service (NWS) provides weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and warnings for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters and ocean areas, for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy. NWS data and products form a national information database and infrastructure which can be used by other governmental agencies, the private sector, the public, and the global community.
For more information about NWC, visit their site at: http://www.weather.gov/
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