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Negligence In Emergency Management Law

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Emergency management law derives from federal, state and local laws which legal responsibility may result in liability (Nicholson, p 393). When addressing the state law, the tort concept arise known as negligence (Nicholson, p 393). Also, Immunities protect emergency managers under certain conditions (Nicholson, p 393). The National Fire Protection Association and post-9/11 federal law generated new benchmarks for emergency managers to follow that resulted in federal funds for the state and local emergency management performance (Nicholson, p 393).
Private and non-profit sectors plays a major role in a disaster operations providing unlimited services that boost the effectiveness of government disaster response (both short and long term),

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