EMERGENCY AND DISASTER RESPONSE The cycle of emergency management continues with response to an emergency or disaster. The goal in this stage is to bring order to chaos. By alleviating confusion it allows an organized response. (Faggiano & McNall, 2012) An organized response to disasters is vital to mitigating the loss of lives and property. To properly respond during a disaster there must be a coordinated response, complete with information sharing and exceptional communication. Communication must…

Community Emergency Preparedness and Response Paper Kimberly Lewis NUR 408 May 7, 2012 Theresa White, MSN Community Emergency Preparedness and Response Paper Preparing for an emergency and knowing what to do in case of an emergency is an important aspect every community should know. Preparedness can be the difference between life and death in certain situations. This is the case in Season two Episode five of this week’s assignment. A forest fire is raging out of control near the Neighborhood…

Abstract The issue confronting all communities during a large scale disaster is the extreme labor intensive need of responding and recovering. The predicament of most communities is the incapability to employ the large scale of personnel needed to competently manage a large scale disaster. One conceivable solution is to increase the workforce population during times of perilous need is for emergency managers to assimilate community volunteers into their existing disaster management plans. The nationally…

Disaster Planning and Emergency Response Disasters, both man-made and natural, occur on a regular basis. It is the responsibility of community officials to prepare ahead of time for these disasters, to ensure residents receive needed care immediately following the disaster and in the following weeks while the community recovers. Because of this communities have created emergency response plans and have trained personnel already in place when such events occur. The following is a discussion of the…

Crisis and Emergency Response This section specifies procedures for various emergency situations, including accidents that occur between school and environmental emergencies, fires, natural disasters, medical emergencies, and school intruders. Emphasis is placed on the importance of creating scenarios and exercises for practicing responses to each of these situations. During an emergency the principal and staff must be prepared to follow procedures, yet make leadership decisions according to…

restoring outages due to large storms or natural disasters we respond quickly and safely to restore power to the critical infrastructure. Electric service providers are required to notify the Commission’s Emergency Management Response Team (EMRT) to be involved in the event of a major emergency and natural disaster that occurs such as hurricanes and ice storms (puc.texas.gov 2009). With the EMRT, they help to coordinate power restoration while communicating regularly with any affected electric service…

Community emergency preparedness and response is “dependent on the willingness of communities to prepare in advance and to respond to instructions as events unfold” (Scutchfiled & Keck, 2009, p. 564). An emergency can be anything from a pandemic of influenza to a natural disaster that causes “disruption of access to health care in a community” (Scutchfiled & Keck, 2009, p. 564), such as the forest fire that has occurred in The Neighborhood TM Season 2 Episode 5 (Neighborhood, 2014). This certain…

challenge for communities because of limited available funds (pp. 104). However, communities have access to federal funding that will assist them in the expansion of mutual-assistance practices where communities share equipment that is rarely used. Also, there is the development of effective technologies and the significant reduction in cost has allowed the once “out of reach” equipment to be more available (pp. 104). It is paramount that community members and officials are equipped to conduct the…

straightforward money related information. There are numerous sorts of dangers, for example, Melissa, CIH, Bot-FKS, Meddonna, Jerry chestnut, Golroted, heartbleed, Shellshock and so on. Name of threat & its details: Name: Golroted Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In), the nodal office to battle hacking, phishing and to sustain security-related protections of the Indian Internet space as of late cautions the Internet clients from India around another infection known as 'Golroted '. The kind…

The response of emergency response crews was effective in the Alfred P. Murrah bombing, though was rather confusing at first. The establishment of three different command posts could have turned tragic though was caught early and formed into one post. Companies from the fire departments were found to be requesting for what was thought to be separate incidents, though was realized to be one incident that was rather large needing incident command to control. With the amount of radio traffic some…