What does EMA stand for?

The county s Emergency Management Agency is like a local division of Illinois Emergency Management Agency, charged with ensuring the safety of all citizens and visitors in the county develops plans and support groups to prepare citizens for major natural disasters and terrorist actions in the county and houses and maintains emergency equipment.

District auditors will also ask the state, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Internal Revenue Service to continue investigating.

In the story on Georgia's school security plan ("School Security Plans Skirt Law," February 2009), I found that if you read the law, you would find that nowhere does it state that the school district must have approval from Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA).

Other useful telephone numbers include government disaster-relief agencies, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has rolled out a new Web site designed to assist first responders when disasters strike.

The money will come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the state Office of Emergency Services, Elbert said Thursday.

The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives, protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the parishes of Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, and Vermilion.

Federal Emergency Management Agency Director James Lee Witt selected King and Pierce counties as part of "Project Impact," which expands a pilot program begun last fall in Seattle and six other communities.