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- The Belize Meteorological Office
The purpose of the National Meteorological Service is to provide hydrological and meteorological information and warnings to safeguard life and property and to promote the socio-economic development of Belize.
- The Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center
The Tropical Prediction Center (TPC) mission is to save lives, mitigate property loss, and improve economic efficiency by issuing the best watches, warnings, forecasts and analyses of hazardous tropical weather, and by increasing understanding of these hazards.
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) advises on building codes and flood plain management, teaching people how to get through a disaster, helping equip local and state emergency preparedness, coordinating the federal response to a disaster, making disaster assistance available to states, communities, businesses and individuals, training emergency managers, supporting the nation’s fire service, and administering the national flood and crime insurance programs.
- Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency
The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) main function is to make an immediate and coordinated response to any disastrous event affecting any Participating State, once the state requests such assistance.