Episode 32: State, Local, Tribal And Territorial Toolkit Lifelines

A community lifeline enables the continuous operation of business and government functions and is critical to human health and safety or economic security. The lifelines concept reframes incident information to provide decision makers with impact statements and root causes and is intended to maximize the effectiveness of federally supported, state managed and locally executed response. FEMA recently released the community lifelines implementation toolkit, which provides our partners with the information and resources to understand lifelines, coordinate with entities using lifelines, and serve as basic guidance for how to implement the lifelines construct during incident response. On this episode, we talked to Jeremy Greenburg from FEMA's Response Directorate about the lifelines concept and how the toolkit will be used to support all units of government in disaster responses.