Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) functions as the U.S. federal coordinating authority for disaster response and recovery in the processed material. FEMA deploys operational teams to affected states (notably Georgia during Hurricane Sarah) to support evacuation, search-and-rescue, and evacuee-location tasks, and coordinates on-the-ground humanitarian response with partners such as the Red Cross. Portrayed as an executive-branch field resource reachable via White House staff, FEMA is invoked as the primary agency for locating missing civilians and managing federal relief operations during the storm.