DisasterScope.com
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Disaster Scope - Consulting to Government & Business
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Disaster Scope provides unique consulting services to federal, state and local governments and private non-profit businesses in all areas of disaster management: preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation.
In October of 2003, as fires raged in several southern California counties, the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (OES) closed its southern California office in Pasadena and laid off its staff of trained emergency recovery personnel. With dozens of applications still open from the 1994 Northridge Earthquake and many additional FEMA related claims from other federally declared disasters in southern California, the closure of the Pasadena office left many local governments without the state’s assistance. These claims from the Northridge Earthquake and those from other disasters represent hundreds of millions of dollars, a significant portion of which is in question. These funds in many cases have already been issued by FEMA and spent by the local government in rebuilding efforts, but must now be demonstrated to have been used properly in order to be retained.
The closure of the southern California office of OES created a variety of needs for the public agencies with disaster funds in question and for other local agencies and non-profits which depended upon OES for continued help in navigating the state and federal disaster assistance programs. With the closure came the disappearance of a large body of irreplaceable institutional knowledge which the southern office had acquired and which was for some reason overlooked by the head office in Sacramento. Some of that knowledge base includes:
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