As we reported last week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is proposing nearly $1 billion in cuts to grant programs that fire, EMS and emergency management agencies use to strengthen disaster preparedness and homeland security. Now, 草莓影视 community members are sounding the alarm, with one member calling the move could 鈥渁 huge mistake鈥� and another encouraging others to take every emergency training course you can, while you still can. The proposal is part of a broader effort to restructure FEMA and shift greater responsibility for disaster preparedness and response to state and local governments.
Several 草莓影视 readers shared their comments with the editors, voicing their concern about the proposal 鈥� share your feedback here. The commentary was more divided on Facebook 鈥� .
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鈥淚t鈥檚 a huge mistake to both lessen FEMA鈥檚 role in emergencies and then to eliminate funding to local agencies that have to pick up the burden of dealing with these incidents.鈥�
鈥淚n my emergency management pursuits, I always felt the funding would shift 鈥� and it has slowly declined. In my own case, in my pursuit of the IAEM CEM credential, I took every FEMA training course humanly possible (with a number); I also took the opportunity to travel to all the FEMA NDPC training centers 鈥� including the CDP 鈥� to gain as much knowledge and experience as possible. Every single one was completely free of charge, paid for by FEMA. It appears to me that the cataclysmic impact is about to happen. While they are still in operation, I would recommend to anyone interested in EM, take every FEMA training course you can find and capture the certificate 鈥� while you still can do so.鈥�
鈥凄颈蝉补蝉迟谤辞耻蝉.鈥�
鈥淐utting the funds for the homeland security because it鈥檚 way too top heavy. I鈥檓 not in favor of cutting all the funds, we need the money in the trenches, but the problem is there鈥檚 way too much layers of administration that is not needed in the system. Cut the top layers, cut the fat off and keep the money to the people in the trenches that need it.鈥�
鈥淎n absolutely terrible idea, the blind leading the blind at DHS/FEMA.鈥�
鈥淭his would put all volunteer company鈥檚 out. So the paid departments would have to cover more areas and that will mean more houses and buildings will burn to the ground. On the EMS side it means that more boroughs and townships will have to hire full time people or the community people will suffer for it 鈥� response times will be a lot slower.鈥�
