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Parent topics

• Emergency management [r]: Preparation and response to natural disasters, accidents, and deliberate violence at both the routine local level and when local resources are overwhelmed ^[e]
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security [r]: An executive (cabinet-level) department of the United States government whose primary mission is to protect the security of the nation. ^[e]

Subtopics

• National Incident Management System [r]: A system for managing emergencies and special incidents, including the Incident Command System at the tactical level and under the National Response Framework at the national policy level ^[e]
• National Response Framework [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Stafford Act [r]: Principal legal authority for U.S. Federal assistance in domestic disasters ^[e]
• Port Security grant [r]: Grants given to purchase modern multi-role fireboats, to enhance national security ^[e]

Leadership

• James Witt [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Michael Brown [r]: A black youth killed in 2014 in a controversial police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri ^[e]
• W. Craig Fugate [r]: Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Obama Administration; former Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM); early career as firefighter ^[e]

Operations

• Incident Command System [r]: An increasingly worldwide set of procedures and doctrines for operational response to emergencies requiring response from different organizations, ranging from multiple units of the same local fire department or police force, to major disasters covering large regions and requiring national or international resources ^[e]
• 9/11 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hurricane Katrina [r]: The most economically destructive hurricane to strike the United States, making landfall on 28 August 2005 ^[e]
• Hurricane Ike [r]: A category 2 hurricane causing massive damage in the Galveston Bay, Texas area, landing September 13th, 2008. ^[e]
• Oklahoma City bombing [r]: 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, that killed 168 people (including 19 children) and wounded more than 700. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Biological weapon [r]: Living organisms, or substances produced by living organisms, used as weapons to produce death or disease in human or agricultural populations ^[e]
• Chemical weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Decontamination [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Federal Bureau of Investigation [r]: The principal U.S. Federal police agency, part of the U.S. Department of Justice and the United States intelligence community , who has arrest authority, and is the primary authority for a variety of domestic crimes, civilian counterespionage within the United States, and organized crime ^[e]
• Meteorology [r]: The interdisciplinary scientific study of the processes and phenomena of the atmosphere, including weather studies and forecasting ^[e]
• Nuclear weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Process Safety Management (United States) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Radiological weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Three Mile Island [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Add brief definition or description