* an organization of volunteer emergency workers who have received specific training in basic disaster response skills, and who agree to supplement existing emergency responders in the event of a major disaster.

* conduct or participate in disaster response exercises.

This is important during a disaster response because not all members of a regular team may be available to respond.

Some sponsoring agencies use Citizen Corps grant funds to purchase disaster response tool kits.

During this period the CCC was called in to provide disaster relief following 1937 floods in New York, Vermont and the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, and response and clean-up after the 1938 hurricane in New England.

The Hurricane Mitch disaster prompted a tremendous response from the international community governments, nongovernmental organizations ( NGOs ), and private citizens alike.

Beginning in 1986, in response to the nuclear reactor explosion and disaster near Chernobyl, Ukraine, the IAEA redoubled its efforts in the field of nuclear safety.

The IAEA itself says that, beginning in 1986, in response to the nuclear reactor explosion and disaster near Chernobyl, Ukraine, the IAEA redoubled its efforts in the field of nuclear safety.

But Russian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreev is critical of the response to Fukushima, and says that the IAEA did not learn from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

In this latter usage, a militia is a body of private persons who respond to an emergency threat to public safety, usually one that requires an armed response, but which can also include ordinary law enforcement or disaster responses.

Nonetheless, terrorism was officially ruled out as the cause by the National Transportation Safety Board, which instead attributed the disaster to the first officer's overuse of rudder controls in response to wake turbulence released by a Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400.

Washington's response was that confrontation could lead to disaster for the outnumbered blacks.

Organizations known to use ALE for Emergency management, disaster relief, ordinary communication or extraordinary situation response include: Red Cross, FEMA, Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, NATO, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United Nations, AT & T, Civil Air Patrol, SHARES, State of California Emergency Management Agency ( CalEMA ), other US States ' Offices of Emergency Services or Emergency Management Agencies, and Amateur Radio Emergency Service ( ARES ).

The International Telecommunications Union ( ITU ), in response to the need for interoperation in international disaster response spurred largely by humanitarian relief, included ALE in its Telecommunications for Disaster Relief recommendations.

The increasing need for instant connectivity for logistical and tactical disaster relief response communications, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami led to ITU actions of encouragement to countries around the world toward loosening restrictions on such communications and equipment border transit during catastrophic disasters.

They were used to remove caesium-137 and strontium-90 from a nearby pond after the Chernobyl disaster, and a similar campaign was mounted in response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

* In 1954, the Thai Border Patrol Police formed the Volunteer Defense Corps ( also called the Village Scouts ) to provide law and order and emergency or natural disaster response.

At the time of the disaster, most British football stadiums had high steel fencing between the spectators and the playing field in response to both friendly and hostile pitch invasions.

The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of federal military forces to " execute the laws "; however, there is disagreement over whether this language may apply to troops used in an advisory, support, disaster response, or other homeland defense role, as opposed to conventional law enforcement.

The Governor is responsible for supervising the local authorities, ensuring that laws and decrees are observed, maintaining public order and security, and coordinating the response to a disaster which has occurred in his province.

The primary purpose of FEMA is to coordinate the response to a disaster that has occurred in the United States and that overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities.

RFC can be considered the first organized federal disaster response agency.

In response to the cooler, seasonal climate, tropical plant species gave way to deciduous ones and grasslands replaced many forests.

Brolga are non-migratory but do move in response to seasonal rains.

* Is more likely to migrate as part of a seasonal response to lowered food supply.

Starting in 1872, Boutwell and Richardson used the " reserve " to counteract seasonal demands for currency, and eventually expanded the circulation of the Greenbacks to $ 382, 000, 000 in response to the Panic of 1873.

In India, the subspecies govinda shows large seasonal fluctuations with the highest numbers seen from July to October, after the Monsoons, and it has been suggested that they make local movements in response to high rainfall.

These seasonal movements are in response to conditions in the environment, and are poorly understood and unpredictable.

Migration is not known but they make seasonal movements in response to rainfall.

Given that the high latitudes in this period were warm and tropical, it is hypothesized that the deciduous habit evolved in response to the unusual light availability patterns, not to major seasonal variations in temperature.

In some areas, there is a pronounced seasonal difference in distribution, with dolphins being sighted further offshore and in deeper water in winter, presumably in response to movements of their prey species.

Although they do not migrate, they are known to make seasonal movements in response to rains.

Many lemur adaptations are in response to Madagascar's highly seasonal environment.

* monitoring the response of the atmosphere to seasonal variations in solar heating.

In the Bible, this trio is described as representing the divine response to human needs () and, particularly, the need for the seasonal rains vital for the successful cultivation of these three crops.

The lower body temperature of poikilotherms is accompanied by a seasonal nature of the immune response in these hosts resulting in a quantitatively reduced pathogenesis.

In response to growing a boom in population, dramatic increases in recreation usage, and numerous drownings along the Central and Northern California coastline, a budget change proposal is approved that places lifeguards along the Russian River coastal area, more than doubles the size of the Santa Cruz seasonal lifeguard operation, and places two permanent lifeguards in the Monterey District.

When a polyphenism is present, an environmental cue causes the organism to develop along a separate pathway, resulting in distinct morphologies ; thus, the response to the environmental cue is “ all or nothing .” The nature of these environmental conditions varies greatly, and includes seasonal cues like temperature and moisture, pheromonal cues, kairomonal cues ( signals released from one species that can be recognized by another ), and nutritional cues.

The crucial test of this flexible response by the Federal Reserve was the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998, which the Federal Reserve met by flooding the world with dollars, and organizing a bailout of Long-Term Capital Management.

Vostrikov orders a series of diving maneuvers during which he directs Polenin to simulate a number of emergencies including fires and flooding while he times the crew's response.

Usually triggered by other pulmonary pathology, the uncontrolled inflammation leads to impaired gas exchange, alveolar flooding and / or collapse, and systemic inflammatory response syndrome.

In response to heavy flooding of East Molesey and Thames Ditton in September 1968, the river was improved downstream of Albany Bridge to the Thames and new flood defences were constructed.

In response to the St. Francis Dam disaster, California Legislature created a dam safety program in 1929 and the California Department of Water Resources was created in 1956 by Governor Goodwin Knight following severe flooding across Northern California in 1955, combining the Division of Water Resources of the Department of Public Works with the State Engineer's Office, the Water Project Authority, and the State Water Resources Board.

In response to the flooding, the U. S. Congress directed the Army Corps of Engineers to research construction of an outlet in 1997 to control the lake level through methods other than evaporation or natural overflow.

In response to this flooding, the Santa Clara Valley Water District ( SCVWD ) launched a series of flood protection projects along the Guadalupe River to ensure that residential and commercial areas near the river are protected from 100-year floods.

As a response to the flooding of homes in South Kelsey during the summer of 2007, the Environment Agency dredged part of the canal to return it to its original depth in March 2010.

Agathe, as a response to serious flooding the previous year.

Widmer's response was that, given the weather common across Florida and resulting flooding, the early people may have raised the structure on stilts.

The construction was a response to severe flooding in the Huai River Basin in 1949 and 1950.

The dam and reservoir were built in response to severe flooding along the Missouri River in the early 20th century, which hampered the economic development of the Missouri River Valley and damaged production of military supplies for then-ongoing World War II.

In 2008 the Army Corps of Engineers completed a survey of the Celilo Falls site using sonar technology, in response to the 50th anniversary of the flooding of the falls.

It began in the late 1970s initially in response to the threat of demolition to the bridge over River Wallington as it was seen as the cause of flooding.

MAC was initially set up in response to the flooding of the Afon Tryweryn valley and the flooding of the village of Capel Celyn to provide water for Liverpool.

The agency was created through an act of the state legislature in 1959 specifically to construct a flood control reservoir in response to a flooding event in 1955.

They may represent " a communal response to new stresses of droughts and flooding that created a suddenly more unpredictable food base.

For instance, if Samantha prefers information from a particular newspaper, and if she prefers that the information be summarized in point-form, she might say, " Computer, find me some information about the flooding in southern China last night "; in response, the VUI that is familiar with her preferences would " find " facts about " flooding " in " southern China " from that source, convert it into point-form, and deliver it to her on screen and / or in voice form, complete with a citation.

In addition, Memorandum Circular No. 08 was issued to NDCC member agencies for the maintenance of round the clock manning of respective agency operations center for quick response in case flooding and other similar disaster situations.

Hessian bags are often deployed as sandbags as a temporary response to flooding.

The problem with this view is that the Kafue Flats ecosystem has evolved in response to these conditions, to regular extremes of flooding and drying out, and was well able to cope with them.

Specifically, there was a delayed response to the flooding of New Orleans, Louisiana.