Hagerty&#8217;s Director of Mitigation, <a href="https://hagertyconsulting.com/employee/amelia-muccio/">Amelia Muccio</a>, discussed the importance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency&#8217;s (FEMA) new Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program with E&amp;E News.
<h2>Disaster program cites climate change for first time</h2>
The additional pre-disaster mitigation money under BRIC comes as climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of hurricanes, floods and wildfires, resulting in a growing number of major disasters in the United States.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t think of another program right now that&#8217;s putting up this much money to do mitigation, infrastructure and resiliency,&#8221; said Amelia Muccio, director of mitigation at Hagerty Consulting Inc., an emergency management [consulting] company. &#8220;I&#8217;m hoping that every year they&#8217;re able to make an investment of this size, and as BRIC becomes more heavily funded, the overall spending on federal disasters goes down.&#8221;
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