State of emergency

laws, rights, and people of all different backgrounds are thrown into the mix. Controversy is common as a result of all of the different angles to be considered. One controversy in particular that has received much attention is on the issue of emergency contraceptives, or the morning-after pill. In 2013, the FDA approved the Plan B One-Step pill to be available to women ages 15 and older without a prescription. What factors went into making this decision,…

and even more often they do not believe that disasters will affect their communities. Often those officials see the training needed for an effective emergency management plan as an expensive and believe that the costs associated with training and planning outweigh the benefit of the end result (Petak, 1985; Condrey, 2010). However, proper emergency planning will enhance effective implementation during disaster response and recovery. This preplanned framework for the disaster response was…

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…

Who wants to expose their loved ones to the overwhelming, chaotic emergency room? Watching significant people in your life critically hurt, or even indisposed can be a very stressful situation to deal with, especially if you are waiting for hours in an emergency room to even see a physician, or even get an update. This is why Urgent Care Centers are beginning to partner up with local hospitals in order to fulfill the important needs of patients with non-life-threatening injuries, rather than…

challenges for community’s. This is why the United States government decided to create the National Incident Management System. The National Incident Management System is made up of multiple component systems, that are intended for use by all levels of government in disaster situations. Of these components, the Incident Command System offers the most advantages to an emergency manager in the event of a disaster. The Incident Management System helps emergency personnel deal with the many…

video “Meltdown At Three Mile Island” operators in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania contributed to a partial nuclear meltdown when they turned off the emergency water valve causing temperature to increase inside the plant. This error lead to a technological crisis that reached national concern where government officials and the president of the United States got involved. At first the residences highly relied on information that was provided by these officials. However, when the siren for an…

When an illness or injury appear out of nowhere, you would usually go to an emergency room, but no one is being helped fast enough at an emergency room, so instead, people have turned to one of the fastest-growing segments of American health care: urgent care, a walk-in clinic. Although urgent care is not exactly like an emergency room, it is a clinic that handles many medical problems that are not too severe but need to be treated right away, especially if your primary care physician is not…

In order to explain the importance of communication during all phases of emergency management, one must first know the four phases of emergency management. These phases are mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery (Haddow & Haddow, 2014). Obviously some of these phases occur before a potential disaster or emergency and some apply only after a disaster or emergency occurs. With that being said, communications are extremely important through all phases. Furthermore, timely and accurate…

participation will generally drive home the learned tasks. Since January 4th, 2016 alone, I have participated in two separate emergency operational events at a managerial level. With unexpected water level increased off the Mississippi River caused a repeat of levee flooding near the southern part of Louisiana and more recently the massive amounts of thunderstorms across the entire state have caused severed flooding in several parishes. Both instances required the activation of several hundred…

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…