Northridge earthquake Recovery
The National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) is a guide to FOSTER successful recovery, particularly for catastrophic incidents like earthquakes. The NDRF provides guidance that assists efficient recovery support to areas impacted by the earthquake. It provides an accommodating structure that facilitates disaster recovery managers to function in an integrated manner. It also emphasis on how to reinstate, redevelop, and regenerate the health, social, economic, natural, and environmental structure of the community and make the community more resilient (FEMA, 2014).
According to the National Preparedness Goal, eight core capabilities are aligned with the Recovery mission area:
Planning: It is very important …show more content…
FEMA helped coordinate the response of the 27 federal agencies involved in the Northridge earthquake by operating the FEMA Incident Command System (ICS) (U.S. Department of Transportation, 2002). Data plays an important role in effective response, recovery, and mitigation after an earthquake. When data is easily accessible and internally consistent it is helpful in making decisions regarding rehabilitation, reconstruction and land-use planning following an earthquake (USGS, n. …show more content…
Northridge recovery efforts were assisted by various local government agencies. With the help of housing aid from FEMA and HUD and the availability of undamaged units available immediately for occupancy it was easy to re-house disaster victims. Most of the victims were placed within three to four weeks in a house comparable to their own and also preferably in their own zip codes (California Earthquake Recovery,
The National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) is a guide to FOSTER successful recovery, particularly for catastrophic incidents like earthquakes. The NDRF provides guidance that assists efficient recovery support to areas impacted by the earthquake. It provides an accommodating structure that facilitates disaster recovery managers to function in an integrated manner. It also emphasis on how to reinstate, redevelop, and regenerate the health, social, economic, natural, and environmental structure of the community and make the community more resilient (FEMA, 2014).
According to the National Preparedness Goal, eight core capabilities are aligned with the Recovery mission area:
Planning: It is very important …show more content…
FEMA helped coordinate the response of the 27 federal agencies involved in the Northridge earthquake by operating the FEMA Incident Command System (ICS) (U.S. Department of Transportation, 2002). Data plays an important role in effective response, recovery, and mitigation after an earthquake. When data is easily accessible and internally consistent it is helpful in making decisions regarding rehabilitation, reconstruction and land-use planning following an earthquake (USGS, n. …show more content…
Northridge recovery efforts were assisted by various local government agencies. With the help of housing aid from FEMA and HUD and the availability of undamaged units available immediately for occupancy it was easy to re-house disaster victims. Most of the victims were placed within three to four weeks in a house comparable to their own and also preferably in their own zip codes (California Earthquake Recovery,