Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Proposed FY2013 National Preparedness Grant Program

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Providing funds to homeowners, especially the most vulnerable, to build or purchase safe rooms will save lives. The ability of homeowners to have safe rooms not only will save lives this program will generate construction business.

This post is about improving the lives of returning veterans from overseas. Some have injuries from their tour of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many may feel depressed due to their injuries. The following are ideas that may or may not be doable to improve the quality of life of our veterans. 1) Can FEMA begin a new program to hire our veterans to manage resources, including emergency supplies, for when a disaster occurs? ...more »

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This tax program could be part of every Americans tax plans. Annually, every household would be taxed a certain amount based on income to have insurance for any disaster that effects any portion of the country in need. If a portion of the programs funding remains unused, then it will be placed in a federal reserve to be used at a a later time.

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Once again our nations ability (or rather the lack there of) to communicate with survivors of catastrophe was crystal clear in the wake of Sandy. Efforts to communicate better integrated systems, hardened structure caches, deployable assets, and such with REAL promise for REAL emergency PREPAREDNESS continue to fall on deaf ears. Response is NOT enough; never has been and never will be - we must be prepared. Why ...more »

Can FEMA organize new emergency street captains? These captains would be given smart phones and extra batteries to link to their neighbors and FEMA. They would be given a list of neighbors in their watched street. There were problems of installing generators that has caused CO poison. There were problems of restarting power to those without electricity. They need to unhook their generators and inspect their fuse boxes ...more »

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As a law student, I see that a need for disaster victims making efforts to rebuild their lives through insurance claims and vital procedures might be enhanced by assistance from professional students who can offer expertise and assistance at a low price or through grants or through the U.S. Pathways program funding for internships. Logistically getting from the emergency state back to regular life is a slow process. ...more »

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As this storm's aftermath unfolds, can this motivate people to stock up on emergency supplies for future disasters? The following are ideas to help do this. 1) Install HD sets at check out lanes that could show items one should have on hand for various emergencies. 2) Bar coded pamphlets could be stocked at check out lanes of major stores. Each scan will mean an emergency supply kit will be delivered. 3) The postal ...more »

To measure progress toward this vision, three strategic goals were established: Goal 1—By 2010, 90 percent of all high-risk urban areas designated within the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) are able to demonstrate response-level emergency communications within one hour for routine events involving multiple jurisdictions and agencies. Goal 2—By 2011, 75 percent of non-UASI jurisdictions are able to demonstrate ...more »

I believed we need to have more CERT teams in smaller communities. I live in a one of the smaller counties in Northern Michigan. If we had a major disaster in this area we would have to have someone come in form one major cities. There are not enough CERT teams in Michigan in my opinion. I would like to start a CERT TEAM in Newaygo County and hopefully it would catch on in the other areas. I believe that to be prepared ...more »

I think there can be a system of flood water capture be developed for areas like Louisiana and other flood prone areas. My idea is simple it simply requires installation of empty water towers along the flood prone areas and a system of diesel powered pump satiations that will pump the flood waters into the water towers. And it can be held there and reused at a later date for irrigation, street clean up, construction ...more »

Two of the largest home per city block be given enough supplies to help a speciafic number of people, on THAT block only, survive till the government can help. Example. Cots/or sleepingbags, MRE's, blankets, bandages, medicine for basics like headaches. Perhaps antibiotics with a hotline set up for a doctor to do a diagnosis over the phone (if possible and witha questioner). The homes chosen must be owner occupied and ...more »

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Our nation has hundreds of small volunteer teams trained and ready to assist in the event of disasters. FEMA needs to recognize, support and document these teams under a new heading of V.I.P.E.R. Volunteer Identify abilities Prepare Educate Respond These teams are made up of trained K-9 Teams, All Terrain Vehicles, Water Rescue boats and divers, EMTs, small aircraft, etc., already trained in Rural, Urban and Wilderness ...more »

Can FEMA explore a comprehensive emergency operations planning solution that would align to a enterprise framework thats web-enabled. Example: Microsoft Security Showcase that was CPG-101 compliant. This is plug and play and facilitates your staff going through the planning process. They manage thier entire enterprise with a couple people and its updated in real time.

With the advantages in technology, can we develop an emergency operations plan thats tied to link analysis to map interoperability. I recently have access to FEMAs full spectrum riskknowledgebase system and its amazing. Can we have a tool developed to do that for the planning process?

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FEMA's National Preparedness Grant Program page indicated that the new NPGP was being discussed here but I have not been able to find anything.

Now that it appears that congress is rejecting this NPGP concept, is this no longer an issue? (The House Appropriations mark-up returns grant programs to the former style and rejected the new vision)

A hospital system based disaster drill to prepare hospital staff for possible disasters. This can be improved and adapted with a smart phone application which would allow for rapid communication from the field to the emergency room to the OR. The applications can help to triage and identify 'hot spots' in the community requiring more intensive resources. The application can be designed to monitor and assess metrics, ...more »