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[Music] welcome to FEMA's tribal recovery video series in this video we will cover step one outline initial response and some best practices for assessing damage tribal elected officials understand initial resp response to an incident and the need to assess damage to public infrastructure in the community and I'm here with Sabrina welcome Sabrina hi zuny thanks for having me today so Sabrina why do tribes care about assessing damage properly tribal governments respond to emergencies and disasters routinely activating the emergency plan and tracking an assessment of Damages is essential in determining the need to request for federal assistance we describe the immediate priorities when responding to an incident when when responding to an incident it's initially important to understand what you're dealing with so your initial assessment seeing what types of resources are going to be required to deal with it and then setting up your documentation Trail is very important in the event of a d