Federal Emergency Management Agency

A hurricane with a category 5 consist of high level wind, Damages to properties. In order to be prepared for a category 5 always plan to evacuate, have supplies, protect your home. Main reason people evacuate is because of flooding, high wind speed. Always find out if you live in an evacuation zone. Your local government should provide information about if needed to evacuate. “Evacuation planning is number one on the list” ( Knabb,pgr.2). Planning to evacuate you need to go to an area safe and…

Wind Damage Repairs in Greater Oklahoma City Area Even though a gust of cool wind is desirable on a hot day, strong winds can create a number of disasters. Depending on the strength and speed of the wind, it can uproot trees, damage porch lights, and even shatter windows. Moreover, strong, cool winds can also be indicators of bad weather. Whenever you feel a refreshing breeze coming in, it’s possible that a strong storm, hurricane, or tornado is brewing. When you encounter severely high winds,…

businesses were destroyed. Nearly 160 people lost their lives as a result of Hurricane Sandy with many of the impacted communities still attempting to rebuilding. The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy has shown that the needs of being better prepared for emergency situations. It did not help that the evacuation order for New York came very late in the process. As a result, many of the 375,000 residents in the most flood-prone areas…

tornado during today's storms that affected many areas of Alabama. A tornado in the Screamer community of Henry County caused "significant" damage to 25 homes and destroyed a "handful" of other houses, Emergency Management Agency officials said. The tornado was reported by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency around 12:30 p.m. The storm also blew down trees and snapped power poles. Henry County is home to about 17,000 people in south Alabama. The tornado touched down in the northern part of the…

Wind, rain, hail, and other weather events can damage your roof enough to justify repair or replacement. It’s important to check your roof’s condition after a bad thunderstorm, hailstorm, or hurricane. Follow up with a high-quality roofing contractor to further assess and repair damage. To help you with the process, Certified Roofing, a family-owned roofer company in Brevard County, has outlined some guidance below for dealing with possible storm damage. *Keep in mind that damage to homes…

There are a lot of definitions for an emergency. For this passage, the definition reflects enter focuses found in the different discourses of what constitutes an emergency. An emergency is characterized here as a critical risk to operations or notorieties that can have negative results if not took care of legitimately. In emergency administration, the risk is the potential harm an emergency can cause on an association, its partners, and an industry. An emergency can make three related dangers:…

doing enough towards emergency preparedness, how when the governement did take the leadership to help out the results turned out useful, other countries such as Tokyo and United States are using evolving technology which is proving to be greatly efficient and the way government leadership is needed to create a powerful and practical policy. I want to emphasize the fact that the government is not doing enough towards emergency preparedness. Every seminar stated that the federal governement is not…

plan is known as the Emergency Action Plan and is a critically important document for athletic trainer to have. It states how emergency situations, that need immediate medical aid will be handled. Athletic trainers should be able to act quickly and effectively in case of an emergency. This means performing the necessary actions on the injured individual as well as delegating tasks such as contacting emergency medical services (EMS) to someone nearby. The emergency action plan should…

The Effect of a Train Wreck January 6th 2005, Is when the Graniteville train derailment occurred. The crew on train P22 was running late by the time they made it to the plant; they didn’t have enough time to drop off the cargo of sodium hydroxide. The brakeman at the plant was supposed to move a switch so other trains could continue moving straight through town. The brakeman claimed he flipped the switch when he didn’t. The brakeman explained to the investigators “In my mind when I left [the…

nonprofit sector and the private sector organizations, all have a responsibility in emergency management. Public sector operations operate on the basis of meeting the needs of others such as private sectors or nonprofit sectors. All these sectors go hand-in-hand. All of the above sectors would be handicapped without the assistance of the other sectors. We must all be responsible parties to the homeland security emergency service(s). The major component parts of preparedness in homeland security…