Emergency Respondrs: A Descriptive Information Analysis

In the essay "Top Ten Competency For Professional Emergency Management" Author B. Wayne Blanchard states, that Emergency Management requires collaboration from different organizations for it to be effective. Some of the organizations that a person is dealing with is Local and state and national level organizations. Some of the local organizations that communities deal with are American Red Cross, Cert (Community Emergency Response Team) and Emergency responders like the Fire Departments, and Police department. Some of our State and national organizations that we deal with are Fema (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and Homeland Security.

Emergency telecommunications otherwise known as 911 dispatching is a fast paced and exciting work environment. During a twelve hour shift, the dispatchers never know what is going to occur, nor do they know when it is going to occur. Hours of boredom can be followed by minutes of sheer panic and terror. They deal with everything from domestic violence to medical calls, traffic stops to house fires. A 911 dispatcher doubles as a communications liaison for police officers, deputies, medical personnel, and fire fighters. Emergency telecommunications often known as dispatching can be broken down into four major categories: law enforcement, fire, emergency medical, and call taking/administrative.

In February 2016, a public safety repeater was introduced to support a common nation wide public safety broadband network (Good, 2017). This public safety broadband network will be installed in buildings to improve communication between first responders and must remain separate from any commercial networks in the building (Good, 2017). This is extremely important step to ensure first responder communications are not competing for bandwidth with commercial users, thus increasing the likelihood of communications working during a

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During emergency situation, people have been trained to call 9-1-1 if they need help. From suspicious activities to mass casualty events, the 9-1-1 centers coordinate law enforcement response and first aid. Programs such as “9-1-1 for kids” dedicate all their efforts and resources to teach children what to do in emergency situations. People carry that information has they move forward in life. When one dials 9-1-1, one expects an immediate response and help in times of crisis. Today, Centers around the United States receive an estimate 240 million calls each year. This paper will provide a reader with a history over view of the 9-1-1 centers. The purpose of this paper is to assess the vulnerabilities by studying two possible scenarios; exposure

Advances in communication technology give the crisis teams the ability to reach out to communities and rural areas using reverse phone calls and the emergency broadcast system. Traditional communication methods, such as television and radio, allows the crisis teams to distribute correct information and help reduce the effects of errors that can be communicated through news spread by word of mouth.

The current communication systems between first responders and other emergency officials have many existing problems. The first issue in communication between first responders is the inability to communicate over a completely wireless system. Wireless communication systems allow first responders to communicate, no matter the situation in which they are thrown. Communication through wireless systems are also more efficient, due to the updated technology that is used for wireless systems. First responders are also unable to communicate with exactly who they want,

For this project I decided to interview my friend who is an emergency response technician (EMT) in Oak Lawn, IL. Oak Lawn is a suburb near Chicago. He has been an EMT for a little bit over a year.

As previously discussed, people are condition to dial 9-1-1 during times of crisis. In the United States, “the first catalyst for a nationwide emergency telephone number was in 1957, when the National Association of Fire Chiefs recommended use of a single number for reporting fires.” In 19687, after the recommendation of the President’s commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, “the [Federal Communications Commission] FCC met with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) to find a means of establishing a universal emergency number that could be implemented quickly. In 1968, AT&T announced that it would establish the digits 9-1-1 (nine-one-one) as the emergency code throughout the United States.” The number was

Due to the vast array of resources that responded to the Cedar fire some were equipped with 800 MHz radios rather than the traditional VHF radios, which was a major communication challenge. Now all resources are equipped with VHF radios that are preprogrammed, but also have field programming capabilities, allowing for all resources to establish effective communications. Additionally, the Board of Supervisors joined the sheriff’s department to invest $22 million in a county regional communication system (S.D. Preparation, n.d.). These upgrades are vastly improved communications between emergency responders and adjoining

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.

Emergency management faces many challenges in today’s modern society. In the years prior to 9/11 emergency management was primarily focused on natural disasters. That has since changed; we now face a diverse variety of risks and hazards on a constant basis. As we continue to grow in population current and newer have compounded into more problems that emergency planner must face and find solutions for.

Today’s technology has enabled communication to various parts of the world a 24-hour service, which means that, in any emergency response circumstance, there will always be a continuous claim for information (Haddow & Haddow, 2013).

Why is it a good idea to include human resources on the incident response management team?

This emergence of social media has also changed emergency management and disaster response. Emergency management as a whole is fairly new, only creating widely recognized, integrated emergency management systems beginning in the 1970s. Furthermore, at this same time people realized that the effects disasters have on the communities they strike can be mitigated by the creation of disaster plans ahead of time, proper disaster response training, and the efforts of human actions in these situations. Because social media has enabled mass amounts of instant information sharing, it allows not only locals and disaster response teams to help with the management of crises, but also many remote citizens.