Disaster Assessment And Planning Guide

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security. According to FEMA, its mission is to “support United States citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all hazards” (FEMA, 2015). Some of FEMA’s primary goals and objectives in regards to natural disasters include providing timely disaster response and assistance to affected areas, utilizing federal capabilities to aid state and local governments in recovery efforts, and to minimize the overall suffering felt by natural disasters. FEMA also assist state, tribal and local governments through

They offer the largest homesites in Nocatee,where neighborhoods are built in a “village” concept that provides residents gathering spaces unique to each neighborhood — parks, playgrounds, dog parks and plentiful trails, for example. The same goes for Twenty Mile communities, along with a sense of spaciousness, old live oaks, towering pines, tranquil ponds and the historical feel of split-rail fencing and signage.

True to its name, Cedar Park has 47 public parks and more than 20 miles of trails. The first known city park was built in 1892 near the depot, and many people would take the train from Austin to spend the day strolling through the park or to have a picnic. Today, the parks cover more than 860 acres.

Cedar Park is one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, and the increase in population since 1990 has been nothing short of remarkable. In 1990, Cedar Park had approximately 5,260 residents. Within 10 years, the population had increased by more than 20,700 people. By 2010, the population exceeded 48,900, and the current population is estimated at more than 75,200. The rise in population has also brought an influx of new businesses. At Alpha Roofing, we provide property owners in Cedar Park with a variety of services, including flat roof replacements, metal roof installations, emergency roof repairs, asphalt shingle installations, chimney repairs, siding installations, roof inspections, gutter installations, custom metal fabrication and

economy rebounded from Katrina, though the region hit by the storm has not, demonstrating all over again however astonishingly resilient our economy are often," aforesaid Dan Laufenberg, chief social scientist at Ameriprise money.

Southeast Asia includes the countries of Brunei, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, and East Timor. These countries are comprised of both developed and developing countries and are among the most densely populated countries in the world with a total population exceeding 620 million people. United States foreign policy as well as significant global attention can attest to the strategic, economic, and political importance of this region (Gursky, Burkle, Hamon, Walker, Benjamin, 2014). Arguably, the critical link connecting the two major oceans of the region and some of the most important waterway transits in the world, it is not difficult to understand why the United States and its military organizations have long been a part of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) efforts in this region. This paper will examine the disaster preparedness and response of the region as it shares the

Designate an individual the first aid kit and ensure everyone knows who has the first aid kit.

A hurricane response plan will benefit any business in different ways: it can help to expedite the recovery time, keep employees safe, reduce damages and economic losses, decrease insurance premium cost, support property protection, and provide a step-by-step decision-making process to ensure order and effectiveness. The plan will include several steps: the hurricane track, respond, and the recovery. Each phase should have specific steps and preparation order to secure efficiency and safety.

Duval County’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) is a well-organized and adequately prepared document. The CEMP not only includes all county agencies, but it highlights the activities with voluntary organizations that will respond to and assist with the recovery process. The document states that the plan unifies the effort of all the whole community for a comprehensive approach to reducing the effects of a disaster (COJ, CEMP, 2010).

I am not originally from Cedar County. I used to live in the Mason City, Iowa. I moved into Cedar County when I was just three years old with my family. I was not to keen on living here. I wanted to move back to my friends and get out of such a small town and go back to my multiple parks and dance classes. After fifteen years I am happy to say that I now love living in Cedar County and glad my family chose to live in Tipton.

Disasters weather man-made, natural, or technological are ineluctable. Community stakeholders, leaders, and citizens are ultimately culpable for ensuring that a sound disaster preparedness and recovery plan is in place should a calamity materialize. Failure to enact such a plan comes with immeasurable consequences. Over the discourse of this paper, the Banqiao Dam disaster will be examined as a case analysis, to render what preparedness and recovery plans were sanctioned, as well as the scope of the response effort.

Under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs) must develop an emergency response plan, review the plan at least annually, and provide information about chemicals in the community to citizens. Plans are developed by LEPCs with stakeholder participation. There is one LEPC for each of the more than 3,000 designated local emergency planning districts. The LEPC membership must include elected state and local officials, police, fire, civil defense, and public health professionals, environment, transportation, and hospital officials, facility representatives, representatives from community groups and the media.

A well known and used program is the NFIP. The NFIP “is a key component of the federal government’s efforts to limit the damage and financial effect of floods” (National, 2017, p. 619). According to Cackley (2016), FEMA uses full-risk rates that use a model to include certain features of catastrophe models that are also used by private insurers. “Both models assess flood probability and damage to estimate potential flood losses” (Cackley, 2016, para. 1). An important aspect of the NFIP to remember is that the Federal government will only provide for communities that agree to certain terms. Some of those terms include those that “agree to pass ordinances and take actions to prohibit future development in the floodway and limit development in their identified floodplains” (Haddow, Bullock & Coppola, 2014, p. 93).

On August 29, 2009, Hurricane Katrina struck the United States Gulf Coast. It was a Category 3 Hurricane, according to the Saffir Simpson Scale. Winds gusted to up to 140 miles per hour, and the hurricane was almost 400 miles wide . The storm itself did a tremendous amount of damage, but the storm’s aftermath was cataclysmic. Many claimed that the federal government was slow to meet the needs of the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the storm. This paper will examine the four elements of disaster management – preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation – as well as an analysis on the data presented.

(a) Discussion: During MEDCAP and DENCAP missions there is a need for an appropriate matrix to ascertain measures of effectiveness. Due to the fact that from one PHIBLEX to the next we do not revisit prior sites there is no way to adequately determine the measures of effectiveness that the MEDCAP/DENCAP had on the overall health of the population over a period of time. MOE’s in the Philippines are hard to determine because there is no one standard that can be applied to all locations in the Philippines. The fact that we do not do MEDCAP/DENCAP’s in the same location makes it near impossible to determine any measure of