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Layer: National Shelter System Facilities (ID:0)

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Name: National Shelter System Facilities

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Description: National Shelter System in the United States "The American Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have worked together to develop the National Shelter System (NSS). Under auspices of the National Response Plan, the American Red Cross is responsible for supporting Emergency Function #6 - Mass Care, Housing and Human Services, with an emphasis on Mass Care." (Excerpt from https://nss.communityos.org) "The National Shelter System (NSS) is a comprehensive web-based, data system created to support agencies (government and non-government) responsible for elements of shelter management. The NSS allows users to identify, track, analyze, and report on shelter data in a consistent and reliable manner. The NSS supports Emergency Support Function (ESF 6) - Mass Care, Housing, and Human Services." "FEMA plays a key role by supporting state and local agencies in the implementation of a coordinated, nationwide shelter system for managing information about shelter facilities, capacity, and population counts. The NSS, a premiere example of collaborative partnership, between the American Red Cross and FEMA, has produced a methodology to address one of the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina: An expectation for a single nationwide cohesive mass care system. NSS data will assist ESF 6 in developing strategies to support state and local governmental agencies in meeting the obligation to ensure prompt and effective mass care service delivery, especially during mass evacuations by: > Providing a coordinated system for government and non-governmental agencies to manage shelter > facility data. > Providing a standardized tool to establish baseline shelter data, vital for comprehensive shelter > planning. > Providing local agencies with a tool to manage the shelter process through all shelter management > phases: planning, alert, stand-by, opening and closure. > Determining the potential number of evacuees that can be sheltered in a specific locale. > Providing from the onset of any disaster incident the capability for informed shelter > decision-making, contribute to the declaration process and speed recovery efforts." (Excerpt from http://www.fema.gov/about/regions/regioni/bridge8-3.shtm) TGS was not tasked with ensuring the completeness of this layer; however, when processing School District entities, TGS added all schools within the district that serve as a shelter. TGS also added records for entities which had multiple supplied addresses if each location serves as a shelter. Records with "-DOD" appended to the end of the [NAME] value are located on a military base, as defined by the Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI) military installations and military range boundaries. "#" and "*" characters were automatically removed from standard HSIP fields that TGS populated. Double spaces were replaced by single spaces in these same fields. At the request of NGA, text fields in this dataset have been set to all upper case to facilitate consistent database engine search results. At the request of NGA, all diacritics (e.g., the German umlaut or the Spanish tilde) have been replaced with their closest equivalent English character to facilitate use with database systems that may not support diacritics. The currentness of this dataset is indicated by the [CONTDATE] field. Based upon this field, the oldest record dates from 02/20/2009 and the newest record dates from 08/07/2009.

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Last Edit Date: 5/25/2023 11:43:51 PM

Schema Last Edit Date: 5/25/2023 11:43:51 PM

Data Last Edit Date: 8/18/2020 9:06:22 PM

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