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Tazewell County Emergency
Management Agency
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Phone:
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309/477-2234 |
Emergency Management Agency
21304 IL State Rt 9
Tremont, IL 61568 |
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| ESDA is an acronym for Emergency Services
Disaster Agency. ESDA was established when the Department of
Defense Office of Civilian Defense was abolished in 1975. As a
majority of the local level civil defense programs were
abandoned, most towns kept a civil defense unit of their own.
After several years many individual states assumed the
responsibility for local civil preparedness in times of natural
or manmade disaster, while the federal government only handled
large scale disasters covering multiple states. |
| ESDA was formed under the Carter and Reagan
administrations to provide local communities support during
disasters. ESDA was also given the responsibility of local
Nuclear Preparedness after the end of Civil Defense. Most ESDA's
are locally funded and work under direction of the local
government and with the direction of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency. |
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