Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The American Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) together developed the National Shelter System (NSS). Under the National Response Plan now called the National Response Framework auspices, American Red Cross, is the Primary Agency responsible for the Mass Care portion of Emergency Support Function no6 - Mass Care, Housing and Human Services. The goal of the NSS is to be able to identify the location, managing agency, capacity, current population, needs assessment and other relevant information for all shelters being run during the response to incidents.