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prosperous city of san francisco. and experts today estimate the colossal earthquake was around 7.9 on the modern magnitude scale. by the end of the first day, there were 26 aftershocks and would succumb to a raging inferno that showed no mercy to the bewildered citizens for 74 hours. the following year is a brief timeline events that they faced and i would like to give you a moment by moment description of what happened to the city and the citizens on this morning 116 years ago. later...

would succumb to a raging inferno that showed no mercy to the bewildered citizens for 74 hours. the following year is a brief timeline events that they faced and i would like to give you a moment by moment description of what happened to the city and the citizens on this morning 116 years ago. later, i will introduce to you some of the fellow san franciscans who work every day to be survivors of the inevitable next big one. wednesday, april 18, 1906, 5:12 a.m. a great fore shock is fel...

They are lookingc forc pre and post disaster planning. Does anybody here have a Recovery Plan that is older than two years . One year . Does anybodyc have a Recovery Plan in your community . [laughter] nancy, you have lots of work to do. clooking at the postdisaster organizations and how you manage recovery, everybody comes together, what resources they can bring to bear and provide. One of the key concepts we have as i mentioned is leadership. Having somebody in chargec, working on this. W...

At this and how it really is the whole community. I want to point out the other agencies that leadcc the recoy support function and looking at all ofc the agencies that have participated. cto bring in the whole entire federal family. That is one of the things i found most frustrating three years ago when i came to be in fema and looking across the nrwhole interagency. catnr the state level, we were always callingc trying to shop around to find out how we could get more resources because th...

knowing as we work with the national response plan working through recovery and the emergency support function and what we did with that, i am very proud and happy thatç wendy is here from the state of arizona to talk about what we did with that and how we grew recovery to document it. that is what this is, the national recovery framework is what we did to document how recovery can work across the country. you can use it. it is scalable. i will get into the nuts and bolts of some of ...

because you truly make a difference in peoples lives. ççthanks. [applause] we will get more information on that as we get to the launch itself. i would like to move on to the next part of the agenda. were going to have some detailed discussions of the framework. i would like to introduce the deputy associate administrator for the theme office of response and recovery. [applause] >> good morning. we have to keep this going. this is kind of the morning of talking before we get into t...

the industries were thinking of pulling out of communities. when the leaders of the communities said that we will rebuild, our citizens are employees of these places. how are we going to rebuild to make that happen? they are looking for leadership. they are lookingç forç pre and post disaster planning. does anybody here have a recovery plan that is older than two years? one year? does anybodyç have a recovery plan in your community? [laughter] nancy, you have lots of work to do. ...

talking before we get into the nuts and bolts of where were really here. i want to start by thanking nancy, all of the fema folks, and the inter-agency. does anyone remember about two years ago when we came for the stakeholder out reache? we started this process with a blank piece of paper. we did not start with añr plan d say here is what we think the federal government should do for recovery. we started with a blank piece of hpd asked people their ideas. what is it about recovery? ...

town they were in because everything was droid -- was destroyed. because there was a plan and quick action, the locality had a plan. the businesses decided to stay. with that, jobs stayed. people stayed. with that, people had hopeç. the workers, the community because we, not just government, the whole community came together. as much as anything else we do, all this work gives people hope and makes a difference. you are going to hear from a lot of different people today. i am going t...

he had sent it to the shop the day before. the shop where it was getting fixed was not affected by the floods. then he said he went back yesterday to pick up my car. as he picked up hisç car, the y said it is ok. he showed me the bill. it was like $800 bill for repairs. it said "paid in fullñr." he said take care of yourself in your family. he picked up the tab, a small- business garage. that happened every day on small scales and now on larger scales. the ndrf is giving us the fram...