Local emergency management organizations (LEMOs) provide a wide variety of services to their communitiesmany of which are relatively unknown to the people they serve. The unheralded nature of LEMOs work can have a significant negative impact on these organizations.
A LEMO that operates quietly beneath the radar of most local residents is an organization that will likely find it difficult to justify continued funding (particularly in the absence of a recent, memorable disaster) or to disseminate
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