Federal Emergency Management Agency

There are many important aspects to the U.S. Emergency Management System. Alleviating, relieving, and preparing to efficiently respond to man-made and natural disasters is essential to prevent additional losses, heartaches, casualties, affliction, harm and more emergencies. FEMA (2010) published a comprehensive preparedness guide that serves as the foundation for tribal, local, territorial and state emergency planning in the United States. FEMA (2010) wrote that the guide integrates concepts…

According to Week 1 lectures, a public health disaster is “an event that overwhelms local resources and services beyond those generally needed to respond to emergency situations”. An effective healthcare response requires evidence and information to meet various and often unpredictable eventualities. The public health department should facilitate rapid assessment of adverse health outcomes, availability of healthcare infrastructure, appropriate organizational strategies, and selection of…

Preparing your home and property for storm damage is important. Just about every region has some type of weather event that can cause damage. This essay will focus on hurricane damage, wind damage, hail damage, tornado damage, cold damage, heat damage and how to prepare for each. Hurricanes can cause extreme damage and require the most preparation since the destruction they cause is widespread, and the severe winds can last for hours. A home in a hurricane prone area needs to be well fortified,…

down, cell phones stop working, power goes off, do you already know the truth about your condition[s], our will you be searching for answers then. If a highly unusual event happens tomorrow, are you willing to follow the directions broadcast over emergency only channels, instructing you where to go and what to bring? Do you have enough faith in your [Officials] and their directions to separate from your family, wife, kids, husbands, and parents? Have you played enough, real life, mind games to…

According to the World Health Organization Emergency Response Framework, from 2001- 2010 an average of more than 700 natural and technological emergencies occur globally every year, affecting approximately 270 million people and causing over 130,000 deaths annually (p.9). The availability of emergency medical services (EMS) throughout the world varies due to each country’s government, size, population, culture, gross to domestic product, terrain, and adopted EMS delivery models. Consequently,…

Even newcomers to preparing for disaster or prepping, as it’s called, needn’t fear an Ebola pandemic if they get ready ahead of time. Stocking up is key—if you have supplies at home, you won’t need to make a dangerous run to the store. Pandemics usually mean quarantines, which might include self-quarantine for you and your family. If that’s the case, what five items should you stock up to be ready for an Ebola pandemic situation? The Basics: Water, Food, Sanitation, Entertainment Taken in order…

During this week’s readings, you will learn about human response to hazards, disasters, emergencies, or catastrophes. For this assignment, discuss how you think you would respond to a hurricane, a terrorist incident, and a home fire. How are your natural responses similar or different from the guidelines provided in the text? Why do you think these similarities and differences occur? As a resident of a hurricane prone area, we prepare by stocking up on supplies like food, water, toiletries, and…

thing for sure, there has to be a consideration for all laws and policies when constructing a comprehensive plan for each community. When planners are discussing recovery and mitigation strategies, they have to consider both as the same. They do go hand in hand together. Schwab notes that when proper mitigation efforts have been defined in a plan that the recovery strategies will benefit the recovery efforts (p.24). Of course, when discussing the two areas during the planning process, they are…

My organization, Camp Noah, is a resilience and preparedness day camp that serves elementary age children in communities that have been impacted by disaster and/or crisis. Our mission is to serve children who have been impacted by a traumatic event and/or experience in their own community by engaging and storytelling. The overall problem that our organization works to solve is the uprooting of normalcy and mental impact that the children are experiencing in the long-term recovery stage after a…

the organizations emergency preparedness. Member of organizations who are not invested will usually be the ones who resist the most. Some of the reasons these members might resist are their lack of knowledge or skills. Another resistance that might come from the organizations members is a resistance to training. Members who are not invested in the implementation of homeland security emergency preparedness plans will not wish to conduct or participate in training. Emergency training is a…