Federal Emergency Management Agency

Responsible for driving and operating fire apparatus safely during normal operations and responding to emergency calls as dictated by weather, road and traffic conditions. Conduct daily inspections of fire apparatus to ensure equipment is functioning at its peak. Possessing a thorough working knowledge of the immediate response territory and establishing the quickest, most direct route to fire and emergency scenes. Trained in the latest pumping techniques of hydraulics pump operations, deluge…

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…

Emergency Managers are faced with the responsibility of managing many different situations. These situations can range from hazards, to emergencies, to even disasters. Therefore, it is imperative to understand the difference of each situation. A hazard is defined as “a source of danger or an extreme event that has a potential to affect people, property, and natural environment in a given situation.” (Lindell, Prater, & Perry, 2007) In short, hazards are the risks that are likely to occur in a…

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Does your health care institution have a Bioterrorism Readiness Plan? The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics does have a plan of action for any threats, including bioterrorism. If so, please share some information about the plan? If not, discuss what would be specific details that would be included in a plan of action for your health care institution? External resources, such as law enforcement, public health, FBI, and CDC would all be contacted. Within the hospital,…

three major labels of emergency management”, authors Dr. Heriberto Urby and Dr. David A. McEntire attempt to distinguish three different labels often given to the subject of emergency management. Within its structure, the article incorporates a vast amount of background information and explanations. Before going into detail with each label, the authors first provide credible definitions to the topic being discussed. They begin by defining and explaining emergency management as a field. A field…

The Community Side: As the group of businesses around the area we have decided on how to help the community to prepare for floods. The community will have health and safety classes to prepare themselves for emergency like this. In the classes they will be taught how to make a flood emergency kits, what and what not to do during a flood, how to turn off electricity and gas and so on. Of course as usual an l flood warning is given out to the people through cell phone message alerts. The time frame…

Lack of quick and obvious senior management support Having an understood approval, or even an order from senior management doesn't mean that, when the time comes, they'll be willing to put into use the disaster recovery plan. Lack of employee support While management support is an important part of getting a disaster recovery plan in place, you need to have employee support in order to carry out a disaster recovery plan effectively. If nothing else, depending on a group of people during the…

.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) consistently exercises and tests for emergency preparedness to perform its homeland defense and civil support missions. The goal is to train as you fight to prepare for future wicked problems. NORTHCOM has an active exercise program, but the involvement of interagency partners and states require improvement according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Its exercise program is consistent with the requirements of DoD's Joint Training System, but…

Emergency workers are considered a special breed of humans; they are those who are willing to take extra sacrifices to potentially save the life of a total stranger. While commonly, the monetary reward for those who attempts such feats is miniscule, the act of selfless service is more than reward enough for those who are willing to answer the call. No matter how heroic one might feel the job of an emergency worker is, there is always someone who wants to rain on his or her parade. As quoted in…