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History and role
In the United States, the Constitution assigns the responsibility of public health and safety with state governments. When an emergency or disaster occurs in a community, the resources of the local governments will be used first to manage the incident. With small-scale incidents, the response of local police, fire, and emergency medical services is usually sufficient. Once the resources of the local government are overwhelmed, the mayor of the city, town, or village will call upon the resources of the state for additional help. Likewise, the Federal government is called upon to act when the resources of local and state governments have been overwhelmed. Governors of the affected states will request a disaster declaration from the President of the United States.
As a result of these foundations, emergency management is often considered a fundamental function of government. The structure and functions of emergency management have developed as government agencies and businesses have continued to search for ways to manage the effects of emergencies and disasters. In the public sector, the primary means of addressing the management of emergencies is accomplished through relevant legislation. The earliest known attempt at providing assistance through legislation occurred when a New Hampshire town was destroyed by a fire in 1803. In response to the fire, a Congressional Act was passed to provide financial assistance to the town. However, significant involvement of the U.S. government in emergency management functions did not occur until the Franklin Roosevelt administration.
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Associates - Emergency planning services and training specifically focused upon the needs of schools and colleges.
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Industry Guide - Offers a step-by-step approach to emergency planning, response and recovery for companies of all sizes.
Management Magazine - Information network promotes business continuity and survival strategies, including disruption prevention, preparedness, mitigation, emergency response, disaster/data recovery, risk assessment, and asset protection.
3D Recovery - Providers of Business Continuity services and consultancy, including online data backup, email management, business continuity planning, contingency sites and standby hardware.
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911 Security - Offering a network of emergency responders to act as a clearing house during large-scale disasters to meet the emergency response needs of large corporations and government agencies.
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AfterDisaster - Providers of emergency services and restoration following large scale damage events caused by natural and man-made disasters.
Albion Research Ltd. - Provides articles, seminars, and training on risk analysis and business risk management.
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Alertcast - Offers an emergency notification service that facilitates contingency planning, emergency preparedness, and disaster recovery.
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Atlantic International Rescue Boats - Development and manufacture of airboats, provides crew training for rescue, law enforcement and military airboats.
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BNP Inc - Describes a range of disaster and business recovery services constructed specifically for community banks and credit unions.
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Bombox UK Limited - A black box system to ensure the survival of important documents following disaster or terrorist attack.
Bushfire Protection Planning - Offers planning advice on how to best protect your home and land in the event of a bushfire.
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Business Contingency Preparedness - Offers training and awareness programs, contingency and plan validation, and recovery agreements. Based in Texas.
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Business Continuity Online - Online exhibition for the business continuity marketplace featuring news, articles, whitepapers, case studies and vendors.
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BusinessEntry - Offers remote server management solutions that utilize KVM over IP technology enabling remote control and troubleshooting using a KVM switch to enable recovery from server related failure.
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Continuity Forum - Free support and advice to organisations and individuals for developing Business Continuity Management skills.
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Crisis Event Management Services (CEMS) - Provides a variety of crisis event services including emergency response, environmental, hazardous materials, and contingency planning.
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Dialogic Communications Corporation - Interactive voice response solutions, emergency notification, disaster recovery, contingency planning and weather warning for business, industry and government.
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Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association - Disaster preparedness and emergency response reference material, job opportunities, and related information.
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Disaster Recovery Journal - Offers information and tools across the business continuity spectrum. Associated with a quarterly publication of the same name.
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Disaster Recovery Professionals - Offers an array of computer hardware services to large and medium sized business. Covers all major manufacturer's equipment from large mainframes to workstations.
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Disaster Scope - Services to help governments and businesses prepare for, respond to, recover from and mitigate against natural disasters.
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Disaster Services Inc - Specialist restoration services, including fire, smoke, corrosion and water damage.
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DRIE West - Provides a local forum where members exchange ideas, information, user experiences and keep abreast of developments related to disaster preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation.
E Team Inc - Offers emergency management and response software, news and general information.
El Camino Disaster Recovery - Offers disaster recovery services including equipment and IT hardware replacement.
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Emergency Management Center - Located in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Conducts research and provides training related to disasters such as evacuation, public response, emergency planning and post-disaster audits.
Environmental Tectonics Corporation - Designs, manufactures, installs, and maintains simulation systems to train emergency personnel in fire, hazardous material spills, medical and natural disasters.
FEMA - U.S. Federal emergency management organisation, with a large amount of data and information concerning emergency response strategies.
Fordam - Reusable tubes filled with water for flood defense and as a sandbag replacement.
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Forum for Disaster Recovery - An interactive portal which provides information and background to assist with disaster recovery planning.
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Get Back In Business Fast - Resources and assets in Southeast Texas for hurricane-stricken businesses including free office lease, shares services offices and warehouses.
Guardsmark - Security services including investigations, consulting, background screening and facility design.
IDS - Online emergency management conference and supplier exhibition/directory, including white papers on various emergency management topics.
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Intrado Inc. - Provides 911 operations support systems services to incumbent local exchange carriers, competitive local exchange carriers and wireless carriers. (Nasdaq: TRDO).
IT-Toolkits - Templates for disaster recovery plans, security manuals, and IT service management.
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iXP Corp - Describes assurance and systems integration services provided for availability, reliability and security within systems and communication technology environments.
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KVM - Locally and remotely access and control servers in your data center or remote office.
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Message 911 - Interactive voice messaging solutions for emergency notification.
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Paragon Technical Services - Provides customized security, environmental and emergency management inspection and oversight services to private and governmental clients.
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PAS56 - Book gives introduction to the emerging PAS56 business continuity standard.
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PlanSecure - Offers a facility to store, update, organize, and exercise a business continuity and crisis plan.
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Post Trauma Resources - Provides trauma response services after personal, duty and work-related disaster.
Powerweb - Provides a complete office environment with desks, telephones and PCs ready for use within a few hours in the event of a customer suffering a disaster that makes their own offices unavailable.
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PowerWorks - Risk management and business continuity solutions for computer, telecommunications and other critical operations.
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Quantum First Response T.E.A.M. - A rapidly deployable tactical emergency asset management system.
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RADRisk - Specialists in radiation protection services for security applications and the business sector, including radiation detectors, training/information and emergency planning.
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Recovery Chronicles - Online library of business continuity planning and disaster recovery articles, case studies, and news taken from the archive of Strohl Systems' newsletter.
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Resilience UK - Information and advice on Business resilience management and planning. Includes associated information on Civil Contingencies Bill 2004 and business drivers.
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Survive - Information on disaster recovery and business continuity training and membership.
TeleMinder Emergency Notification - Disaster recovery, business continuity, and staff notification via telephone, fax, e-mail, or SMS.
The Disaster Recovery Planning Guide - This disaster recovery planning portal is intended to be a launch pad for those seeking help with the business continuity planning process.
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The International Emergency Management Society - Non-profit society informs and educates the public in all areas of emergency management, publishes periodicals, sponsors networking events.
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XOsoft - Continuous application availability solutions for business continuity, disaster recovery and continuous backup for uninterrupted server access.
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