Mutual Aid and Disaster Recovery Reform Act (DRRA) 1206 (3.0 Hour) (Contract In-Person)

All too often after a disaster, an affected community is left on its own to struggle with responding and recovering from a disaster. When the building department is not engaged, Emergency Managers requests for local, state and/or federal assistance are not relayed and often go unfulfilled. This lack of assistance can negatively impact a community’s ability to respond and recover form disasters. This training session begins by reviewing the various phases of a disaster, emergency management basics, and the post-disaster roles and responsibilities typically assigned to building departments in the wake of disasters. This training session then introduce and discuss the various forms of mutual aid and how to access it along with the formality of the EMAC process. This training then introduces and discusses DRRA 1206, what it covers, how to access it, along with its requirements. The goal of this training class is to review the various types of mutual aid and to introduce the Disaster Recovery Reform Act (DRRA), Section 1206.