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Podcast: EM Weekly Podcast
Episode: What is FEMAs IMAT All About
Description: FEMA’s Incident Management Assistance Teams (IMAT) are rapidly deployable assets that provide the federal government’s initial coordination and response capability prior to and in the immediate hours following a serious incident. IMATs are response-oriented and deploy in support of the state, local, tribal and territorial government efforts to save lives, protect property, and provide life-sustaining services to meet basic individual and community needs or in support of another lead federal agency, as directed, for non-Stafford Act incidents. IMATs are designed to remain onsite through the stabilization of an incident and effectively transition responsibilities to follow-on personnel in order to r...