Preparedness is really the first step in Emergency Management. When your community is prepared, you are ready to handle a disaster. The degrees in preparedness comes from training scenarios, and drills to ensure that they community is ready in the event of a disaster. What does is actually mean to be prepared? If disaster strikes your community are you ready with emergency personal? Do you have city utilities on stand-by to respond to situations that might arise due to the disaster? Preparedness is not just for emergency managers, but should include households, communities, and other organizations. Preparedness in relation to the other phases of disaster is crucial. If you are prepared for the disaster initially then you will be ready
