to come get me please. I want to live," said Chris Robinson during the duration of Hurricane Katrina. The horrendous and catastrophic Hurricane Katrina changed Americans view about how the government is able to respond to emergency situations. With the help of many emergency crew and organizations, New Orleans was able to slowly rebuild. New Orleans was an exceptionally prosperous and unique town before Hurricane Katrina had plummeted through the area. One gentleman named Wynton Marsalis…
saving pieces of technology. There is an alert system called Weather and Emergency Alert System Alarm Kit 2 by Maxi Aids. This handy device is an early warning system used provide a sense of security in an emergency. The deaf person will get an immediate notification of threatening weather or local emergencies. This useful device also comes equipped with an AM/FM radio with an alarm clock and snooze. The Weather and Emergency Alert System Alarm Kit 2 can be used in all states but places like…
Officer Second Class (E-5) 11/2009 - 11/2014 Fleet Marine Force Corpsman (Combat Medic) • Developed, coordinated, and supervised safety plans for the prevention of injuries and the evacuation plans. • Assisted health care professionals in providing medical care to active duty and dependents. • Rendered emergency medical treatment and transported patients. Served as physician extender. • Created, maintenance, upkeep and safe guarding of over 1100 medical and dental treatment records. •…
placed in files. - Staff has been retrained on Look before You Lock and certification of training completion has been placed in all staff files. 19) Child’s file has been updated with the appropriate forms to indicated evidence of current first aid/emergency medical consent release, a current off site consent, and a current transportation plan. All other student files have been reviewed and updated where needed, as well. 20) Current program director is continuing to complete monthly staff…
On 11 March 2011, all international news broadcasts were fixated on Japan, for an unfortunate reason; a natural catastrophe that has struck the Tohoku region of Japan without warning. The calamity was instantaneously announced through viral videos, emails, Twitter feeds, social media and live broadcasts on both international and local Japanese news programs, with the global network news reporters clambering through the rubble (Bestor, 2013). This unprecedented natural disaster that has shocked…
Since the 9/11 attacks, the city of Baltimore has taken substantial steps to prepare for the possibility of another terrorist incident. With the evolution of homeland security and Maryland’s close proximity to Washington DC, Baltimore officials were forced to re-evaluate the terrorist threat and vulnerabilities that plagued their city. Maryland was confronted with a variety of issues stemming from their mass transit system, expansive private and public people infrastructure, oceanic ports, and…
RUNNING HEAD 1 Kindred emergency preparedness plan evaluation: staff competency “Natural disasters have the potential to kill thousands of people in minutes. Moreover, many more people are killed during the following weeks and years due to the consequences of disasters. Hospitals are among the healthcare centers whose prompt and efficient services can play a significant role in decreasing disaster mortality rate. Accordingly, hospitals should be designed and built in such a…
This dissertation is about accountability in decision-making processes for routine and non-routine settings. The study identifies two research problems linked to each other. The first research problem is the disconnect in the public administration’s literature of the micro (individual) and macro (societal) levels of accountability (Dubnick, 2014) and the conceptualization of accountability primarily for routine contexts. The second research problem is a practical problem related to the…
responding to the emergency drill. It also will allow responding departments to take shorter routes to get to the school in the shortest amount of time possible. Time is of the essence when responding to school shooting incidents. The sooner the response teams arrives the quicker that they can play the role of neutralizing the shooter. As mentioned earlier, the type of incident is an active school shooter emergency response and evacuation drill. Although school shooting scenarios may be…
Akshay Kumar New Movie 'Airlift' Different From 'Argo' ! Akshay Kumar denies all comparisons between his film Airlift and Hollywood's Argo. Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, who will be seen in "Airlift", enlivened by the evacuation of Indians who were stuck in Kuwait amid the Iraq-Kuwait war, says it can't be compared with Hollywood star Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film "Argo". This is a totally unique story and non-anecdotal. "Airlift" is based around a Kuwait-based entrepreneur who was stuck…