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Please feel free to download and read the publication from the
Federal Emergency Management Agency titled
"Are You Ready? A Guide To Citizen Prepardness"
This is made available to you in
Adobe Acrobat and
Microsoft Word
formats.
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What is E.S.D.A.? E.S.D.A. is an acronym for Emergency Services Disaster Agency. E.S.D.A. was established when the Department of Defense Office of Civilian Defense was abolished in 1975. As a majority of the local level civil defense programs were abandoned, most towns kept a civil defense unit of their own. After several years many individual states assumed the responsibility for local civil preparedness in times of natural or manmade disaster, while the federal government only handled large scale disasters covering multiple states. E.S.D.A. was formed under the Carter and Reagan administrations to provide local communities support during disasters. E.S.D.A. was also given the responsibility of local Nuclear Preparedness after the end of Civil Defense. Most E.S.D.A.'s are locally funded and work under direction of the local government and with the direction of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. |
The E.S.D.A. Mission...The E.S.D.A. mission is deliberately broad. Often called upon to respond to emergency situations as either a coordinating agency or a support agency. The main function of E.S.D.A. is severe weather event coordination. |
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