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  • FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer Philip E. Parr, center, speaks during a meeting with state and local officials during a Prattsville Recovery Executive Meeting on the towns recovery efforts.
  • Administrator Craig Fugate answers questions from children via video-teleconference for Bring Your Kids to Work Day
  • Mary Hudak of FEMA Region IV presents a photo to a group of emergency managers from Korea. The group attended briefings and toured the Regional Response Coordination Center.
  • FEMA Region IX IMAT deployed to the State of Nevada Emergency Operation Center (EOC) for the Simple Truth Exercise. The exercise was played on three consecutive days with the State of Nevada, Region IX Regional Support Team (RST) and Region IX Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT).
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  • A FEMA For Kids workshop at a school in New York.
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  • Preliminary Damage Assessment teams fanned out across the Dallas Fort Worth area in the aftermath of the Tuesday tornadoes.
  • A home destroyed by a tornado in Tennessee.
  • Survivors start the process of applying for disaster assistance with a FEMA Individual Assistance Specialist at a newly opened Disaster Recovery Center in Tennessee.
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October 18, 2012
Practicing Safety and “Shaking Out”
CAPTION: Administrator Craig Fugate (left) and Deputy Administrator Rich Serino practice "Drop. Cover. Hold On." as part of the Great ShakeOut earthquake drill held October 18.Those of us in
October 17, 2012
Workplace Preparedness and The Great ShakeOut Tomorrow
On August 23, 2011 a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Louisa County, Virginia; the shaking from this seismic event was felt as far north as New England and as far south as Georgia.  At the time
October 17, 2012
We Must Be Prepared. Even for Earthquakes.
We have hurricanes in North Carolina. We have tornados, floods, ice storms and an occasional four-inch snowfall that’ll have our streets closed for days and our Northern transplants aghast and
October 17, 2012
ShakeOut and my school
Editor’s note: the following is posted by Gabriela Rodriguez, a member of FEMA’s Youth Preparedness Council from Puerto Rico. She shares how her school is involved in the ShakeOut earthquake drill

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