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Created in 1978, FEMA is the descendant of many older agencies and measures that were established to prevent and address natural and man-made disasters. One of the oldest of such measures was the 1803 legislation established in New Hampshire in the wake of a devastating fire. One of the earliest agencies to be created was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which was a 1932 response to the Great Depression. In the midst of the Cold War, civil defense and disaster control became consolidated into the same entity: FEMA. Since the end of the Cold War, the agency has been able to move away from defense concerns and has focussed more closely on natural disasters. This is not to say that FEMA doesn't take potential attacks very seriously; terrorist attacks, whether conventional, biological, chemical, or nuclear, are key concerns for FEMA... and community-based teams to handle disasters in their respective areas. Since FEMA only needs to be called in when local and state resources prove..

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