Response to Large-Scale Emergencies from floods to fires, tornadoes to terrorist attack, the government must respond to a variety of crises and meet reasonable standards of performance. It quite an overwhelming challenge that most of the countries are encountering in the quest to improve the world be a spot to live to all humankind. Most of this factor emanates from several challenges such as economic, social and political factors that can be easily handled in case of good governance. Most of the government agencies are encountering an enormous challenge in facing different types of attack and even having to work round the clock to research on the predisposing factors leading to this attack. In the world today, security has become the worst
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This will ever remain healing scar in the heart of US where they encountered the worst attack and lost 3000 people and 400 policemen and firefighter in a terrorist attack that got the country by surprise. There has been a high threat to terrorist in most countries in the world and Africa being the most affected continent. Most of these attacks are attributed to bad governance, religion indifferences and corruption where some people are after to enrich themselves without any care of the country at large. To be able to curb such disaster from taking place US has profoundly improved the emergency response for such situation where during the attack the emergency response was a bit lagging such that the situation ended up being worse, and the loss of life was high. According to Reuters report there was a great miscommunication between the homeland security and the Army force where both the department were not aware of the attack although there was come information concerning such an attack would take place in the …show more content…
It was quite a complicated situation since many telephones, power, and computer lines were down, and it was exceptionally troublesome actually for authorities to move beyond checkpoints without the badges. At Pentagon in contrast to New York, the incident command system designed for all hazard consequence management worked superbly that was partly because the operation was a single command. The Arlington Country Fire Department Emergency team worked well together in part due to the pre-established relationship. By contrast with the Pentagon, New York’s city response was one immense "Authoritative Complexity" as indicated by Harrald, who followed a rundown of the same number of as 4499 organizations responding to the emergency. Among the more uniquely difficult challenge that responders had named includes; the sheer scope and scale if the incident, it caused, the loss of human lives taken, the environmental destruction, physical devastation, financial impact globally and locally, involvement of multiple agencies and the international scope of its
This will ever remain healing scar in the heart of US where they encountered the worst attack and lost 3000 people and 400 policemen and firefighter in a terrorist attack that got the country by surprise. There has been a high threat to terrorist in most countries in the world and Africa being the most affected continent. Most of these attacks are attributed to bad governance, religion indifferences and corruption where some people are after to enrich themselves without any care of the country at large. To be able to curb such disaster from taking place US has profoundly improved the emergency response for such situation where during the attack the emergency response was a bit lagging such that the situation ended up being worse, and the loss of life was high. According to Reuters report there was a great miscommunication between the homeland security and the Army force where both the department were not aware of the attack although there was come information concerning such an attack would take place in the …show more content…
It was quite a complicated situation since many telephones, power, and computer lines were down, and it was exceptionally troublesome actually for authorities to move beyond checkpoints without the badges. At Pentagon in contrast to New York, the incident command system designed for all hazard consequence management worked superbly that was partly because the operation was a single command. The Arlington Country Fire Department Emergency team worked well together in part due to the pre-established relationship. By contrast with the Pentagon, New York’s city response was one immense "Authoritative Complexity" as indicated by Harrald, who followed a rundown of the same number of as 4499 organizations responding to the emergency. Among the more uniquely difficult challenge that responders had named includes; the sheer scope and scale if the incident, it caused, the loss of human lives taken, the environmental destruction, physical devastation, financial impact globally and locally, involvement of multiple agencies and the international scope of its