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I was doing my internship at Douglas County Emergency Operation Center; we were a group of three students who are majoring in Emergency Management. Whitney Shipley supervised and taught us a lot of things during the semester. We had done tabletop exercise with three different agencies; each one of us had to choose to meet with the Police department, Business organization, and Red Cross. I chose the Red Cross and met with them many times. The Red Cross is doing an exercise in the coming June, they need to initiate 2 shelters that can absorb 400 people in 4 hours, prepare the shelter with all needs that might be needed. Also, the Fire Department, Police Department, Social Workers, Sheriff Department, and the Public Health had joined the meeting to discuss the Red Cross’ needs during a tornado event. The meeting was to discuss the issues with the Red Cross, and to remind each department about the role of the Emergency Operation Center during the disaster. All the departments above were informed and told about how the Emergency Operation Center will be activated, and how they engage with the other agencies. …show more content…
Also we searched for many events to know the locations, dates, and for how long to inform the responsible agencies that need to attend the events.
We were asked to do researches on different natural disasters, also look for the same disaster in different scale. We looked at large, medium, and small events, regarding the fatalities, the organizations and the agencies that got involved, and the damage and cost of each
I was doing my internship at Douglas County Emergency Operation Center; we were a group of three students who are majoring in Emergency Management. Whitney Shipley supervised and taught us a lot of things during the semester. We had done tabletop exercise with three different agencies; each one of us had to choose to meet with the Police department, Business organization, and Red Cross. I chose the Red Cross and met with them many times. The Red Cross is doing an exercise in the coming June, they need to initiate 2 shelters that can absorb 400 people in 4 hours, prepare the shelter with all needs that might be needed. Also, the Fire Department, Police Department, Social Workers, Sheriff Department, and the Public Health had joined the meeting to discuss the Red Cross’ needs during a tornado event. The meeting was to discuss the issues with the Red Cross, and to remind each department about the role of the Emergency Operation Center during the disaster. All the departments above were informed and told about how the Emergency Operation Center will be activated, and how they engage with the other agencies. …show more content…
Also we searched for many events to know the locations, dates, and for how long to inform the responsible agencies that need to attend the events.
We were asked to do researches on different natural disasters, also look for the same disaster in different scale. We looked at large, medium, and small events, regarding the fatalities, the organizations and the agencies that got involved, and the damage and cost of each