Budget Cuts In Emergency Services

According to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), there are many factors that will affect the direction of emergency management in the coming years. These can be classified as global challenges, global opportunities, national challenges, national opportunities, professional challenges, and professional opportunities. Global Challenges include some issues like global climate change, increasing population and population density, increasing resource scarcities, rising income inequality, and increasing risk aversion. Global Opportunities has to do with increased scientific understanding of the hazards and societal responses, as well as revolutionary technologies. National Challenges involves increasing urbanization and hazard exposure, interdependencies in infrastructure, continued emphasis on growth, rising costs of disaster recovery, increasing population diversity, terrorist threats, low priority of emergency management, legal liability, and intergovernmental tensions. Due to these factors that will affect the direction of emergency management in the coming years, there is need for us at emergency management division to adjust operational plans to meet these challenges and especially changes emanating from constant changes expected in technology and other threats we face.

This paper is designed to show you the differences between the way conservatives and progressives view the federal role in emergency management. Furthermore, the advantages and disadvantages of each them. Also, we will discuss what you should expect as a practitioner of the profession on how to prepare yourself when you would like to switch from one to the other. Most importantly discuss the criteria of a natural disaster and how human and social perception factors inter play with each other. One question at hand is do we blame the victim? What does “blaming the victim” means? Is there any validity to this or not? Does this concept influence the way our society responds to disaster or any other event that may occur? These are some of

Third, officers resolved most events through hospitalization. Subjects rarely were arrested.”(Skeem,J., Bibeau,L.,2008 pg.203) Even though many of the outcomes are strengths, there were some weakness pointed out in this program. One was the events police officers were responding too, such as was the level of crisis as high and or dangerous as they were assumed to be. Two the reporting was done by the officers themselves, the possibility of bias may have occurred.

Organizations over the past few decades have come to realize two things, there are a limited number of people in the government that are able to respond to natural disasters or large scale disaster effectively and that the government only has so many available resources to offer during a time of crisis. Another fact is, that private sector companies and non-profit entities, such as the Red Cross, have the ability to be more prepared due to their vast network of stores and distribution centers and their leisure, they indeed do have a unique responsibility

The Chicago Fire Department and The Chicago Police Department are in danger of losing their pensions. These brave men and women put their lives on the line every day and this is how the government repays them. This is not securing their future of retirement. Citizens believe that our first responder’s pensions should be a high priority to Chicago’s to-do list. This City of Chicago owes these brave men and women a pension like they promised and if that means cutting funds to other things, then it should be done. The pension secures the men and women’s future of retirement, and by taking it away from them it may create unstable lives.

Paramedics average in making about$38,347 a year. The average salary for U.S. citizens is about $49,192. This information proves that paramedics’ pay is well below the average salary. “The same residents are now limited to 80 hours per week and 24 hours in a single shift with an allowance for an additional six hours for clinical handover”(Jems.com). 80 hours a week for a low salary should not be a cause for paramedics. “Emergency medical calls usually involve illnesses like heart attacks, severe allergic reactions, labor and delivery and complications from shock. Paramedics can administer a wide variety of medications to soothe patient symptoms until they arrive at the hospital”(ems1.com). This quote provides further detail in explaining how much paramedics can deal with in their whole career. “Each year they respond to nearly 50,000 calls for life-threatening incidents and the quality of care that they are able to provide in the first six minutes can mean the difference between life and death”(mediconefoundation.org). This quote is an amazing reason that represents the amount of work that paramedics have to deal with and are assigned. What they do before they head to the E.R., emergency room, is heavily weighed

Many people are not getting the right service because of lack of money. Police and fire department staff are suffering the consequences of shortage of money, yet this is affecting the whole communities because when there are more personnel emergency response is

The attacks were more localized than most catastrophic disasters, did not overwhelm emergency shelters or food distribution centers, and did not destroy the city infrastructure in either New York or Washington.. However, the 9/11 experience highlights one critical concept. One cannot ignore the importance of maintaining highly trained local emergency responders as well as properly staffed and equipped local emergency response agencies; local first responders are on scene first, handle the vast majority of rescue operations, and cannot be practically replaced by federal responders, especially when disasters strikes without

Also, EMT-paramedics should make way more money because they do a dangerous job that saves lives and they do not even make a decent living. 31,000 dollars per year may not seem like that little of an amount of money, but if it is a family of six and an EMT-paramedic is the only one working in the family, they are actually below the poverty level. Money is not the most important thing about a career, but when I learned that the people who saved my life do not even make, on average, fifteen dollars an hour, I was shocked. Making that kind of money would make it difficult to provide for a family, so the spouse would also most likely have to work in order to make a decent family income. A household with a first responder should easily make six

The issues discussed in the paper only reach a few areas of concern that could be researched in a reasonable time period. Although, this basic research showed significant issues are present in government involvement in Emergency Services, there needs to be more research to sow that best practices are needed and can be used to prevent further untoward employee actions and liability toward the municipalities. This sends a message that continued research of this topics and specifics within the issues be approached in a professional manner to help government achieve more professional, ethical and lawful approaches to employees and their specific

Medical, trauma, and emergency knowledge was needed in assessing victims of the attacks, in deciding who needed or did not need medical care and in which order was most beneficial to the time and for the greatest use of supplies available. The days, weeks, months, and years required to recover from these incidents not just in the hot zone, but medically and mentally have set forth implementation of how we focus our efforts before, during, and after hazards strike. The affects of September eleventh, have taught us as first responders and government officials valuable information on disaster response and recovery efforts.

When you call for emergency locksmith services, your day may already be turning south. An emergency locksmith is typically called for service when you have run into issues with locks, keys or both. Keys may be lost or missing, a lock may be jammed, the key may have broken inside the lock or some other similar issue may be causing you trouble. An emergency locksmith can travel to your location to help you overcome those issues. However, it is important to note that not all companies that offer emergency services are the same. Here are a few key things to look for to avoid being scammed by a bad locksmith.

In “Wither the Emergency Manager,” Niel R. Britton comments on Drabek's “Human Responses to disaster: An Inventory of Sociological Findings.” Britton describes six positive and negative issues in emergency management as it is today. In this paper, we will discuss the implications on emergency management as a field and on the individual manager.

The burden of emergency management has grown great deal in the last few decades. We have seen an increase in natural disasters, a new threat of terrorism on our front door and an increase in manmade disasters. All of these have tested emergency management in a number of cities and towns across the nation. It is not always disasters that present problems for emergency managers. We have to look beyond our traditional view of emergency management of helping us during times of disasters and view what issues they consider may affect their emergency response. Issues that emergency management see that are moving into the critical area are issues of urbanization and hazard exposure, the rising costs of disaster recovery, and low priority of emergency management.

When a disaster has taken place, first responders who provide fire and medical services will not be equipped to meet the demands for many services. Several issues such as the number of victims, communication failures and road blockages will stop people from accessing emergency services they have come to expect at a moment 's notice through 911 emergency services. Individuals will have to rely on others for help in order to meet their immediate lifesaving and life sustaining needs. If access is blocked or the agency’s capacity is exceeded, it may be hours or days before trained help arrives. There is a four-phase model that organizes the events of emergency managers. This model is known as the “life cycle” which includes dour