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Communication and Pediatric Emergency Preparedness Preparing for a disaster requires strategic planning; however, in recent years there have been several challenges, causing unnecessary deaths and illnesses. A critical component of emergency preparedness is communication at multiple levels. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) presented grand rounds on preparedness challenges for children in public health emergencies with discussions on strengths, challenges, and opportunities…

Slide 1 Title: Emergency Operation Center – These power point presentation is for LP5 Assignment on Emergency Operation Center. Slide 2 Table of Contents – The table of contents the area I will be covering are on: the functional roles of the Emergency Manager, Deputy Emergency Manager, Command Staff, Public Information Officer, Safety Officer, Liaison Officer, Operations Coordination Chief, Planning Coordination Chief, Investigation and Intelligence Coordination Chief, Resource Coordination…

The need to utilize operable and interoperable communications for response and recovery operations in the event of any type of disasters result in National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) to provide information and guidance in order to assist in planning and coordination to allow responders such as: police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians to effectively communicate and share information in all situation. One of the organizations named in the plan is the Office for…

The fire service has many roles in the community and one of those roles is being a fire inspector. In this scenario, one is the fire inspector for a municipal fire department and a newly planned community if being built. It is the fire inspector duties to ensure that the water supply system is being installed correctly. One will discuss the type of hydrants to be installed, explain why one pick that particular hydrant, state how the hydrants will be tested, and provide spacing requirement…

Week 4 Assignment DRP BCP and different sites: Edmond Bessette Bellevue University Class CIS 608 Kayleen Amerson 9/22/2017 In this assignment I will compare and contrast Disaster recovery plan (DRP) to Business Continuity Planning (BCP) to understand when and how to use each one. BCP uses Hot Warm and Cold as backup sites. These sites are not referring to temperature of the rooms instead the required work to continue operations at these backup sites. (Whiteman 2017) Disaster recovery…

Emergency Response to Terrorism This week for our discussion post, I decided to discuss and analyze the emergency response to terrorism: module 4: scene control. This module discusses the roles of an incident command(IC) and the steps that are required when responding to a natural disaster, hazardous materials or a terrorist attack. The incident command is handled by the incident commander in which he/she makes all operational decisions, managing and implementing all resources, and tactical…

Information Management and Information Technology in an MCI or Disaster Serious emergencies, disasters and crises have become increasingly frequent in the recent years. In the past several decades, natural and man-made disasters have taken over 3 million innocent lives and badly affected millions more. When a disaster strikes, many lives may be saved by emergency crisis response. In fact, mass-casualty incident and disaster response is considered to be one of the biggest challenges for an…

Preparedness is really the first 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?…

The Role of Forensic Science in Mass Disasters Mass disasters are an all too familiar reality. The cause of such occurrences can be natural or human influence. Natural disaster include hurricanes, tornados, and volcanos amongst other occurrence (Sudoyo, Widodo, Suryadi, Lie, Safari, Widjajanto, Kadarmo, 2008). Un-natural, or those occurring due to human involvement, are bombings, plane crashes, or mass shootings. Mass disasters usually require extensive logistical support (Prinz, Carracedo,…

The majority of people exposed to any type of a disaster do well and may have only mild transitory symptoms. However, some people develop specific psychological reactions which occur during the seven stages of a disaster. The extent of which the psychological mortality that manifests in people in the community is dependent upon the type of disaster, the experience, the disruption caused to the community, the amount of life threat and the extent of injury sustained (Ursano, Fullerton & Norwood,…