Recovery
Recovery is what you do after an emergency to return to your normal life and make yourself safer. Undertaking home repairs is an example of recovery.
Recovery included actions taken to return to a normal or even safer situation following an emergency. Recovery includes getting financial assistance to help pay for the repairs. Recovery activities take place AFTER an emergency.
Dauphin County Emergency Management Agency assists with recovery efforts by providing important information required by key State and Federal agencies who are responsible for releasing financial aid and services to disaster-stricken areas.
Responsibility for recovery operations ultimately rests with the individual. Disaster relief funds from the state or federal government may or may not be available for certain emergencies, as it takes a disaster declaration from the Governor or President, respectively, for funds to be released to the affected communities.
PEMA and FEMA both offer additional information to help individual victims of a disaster. Some helpful links are included below:
