Even before FEMA's creation, building codes have played a role in disaster assistance and recovery.
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Titus highlights the historical importance of building codes in disaster recovery.
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The incentives and funding provided by DRRA are critical since 35 states have not adopted modern building codes, creating a public safety hazard and unnecessarily increasing the costs of disaster recovery.
Since then we’ve learned that there are other problems down there, problems of ventilation, problems of exiting in the case of an emergency. Firefighters don’t have adequate access to what they might need in case of an accident.





