mutual aid

Mutual Aid in Times of Disaster: Navigating EMAC in Emergency Management   By Jim Mullen Credit Note: the bulk of the information below is taken from the National Emergency Management Association. Note: The outpouring of mutual aid support to California’s wildfires, as well as North Carolina and Georgia and other disaster impacted states, is not an uncoordinated, spontaneous reaction. What the nation sees in major disasters is the activation of a “well- established capability of state-to-state mutual aid exists in the form the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC). Ratified by the US Congress in 1996 (Public Law 104-321) 50 states, [...]