The Challenges Of Emergency Management

Modern emergency management requires very conscientious planning and organization. Although, a great deal of time goes into the planning there is not a sure concrete plan, because managers still have to improvise, adapt and innovate to incidents, which rarely completely covers every aspect of the disaster. The essential roles of networks is to combine a wide range of community economic, social-psychological, and political resources. Role collaboration of emergency managers converts into a critical entity during and following a disaster coordinating intergovernmental, multi organization, and intersectoral response and recovery operations. The development of an effective leadership strategy vary and presents another levels of challenges than

One of the main affected markets due to this natural disaster is energy (electricity). “The state’s largest electric utility company, Florida Power and Light, warned that as many as 9 million residents could be affected by power outages”. These power outages could last weeks which means that

In the article “Pummeled Florida Staggers Toward Long Recovery” by Alexander Burns, informs the reader that Florida took most of the hit from hurricane Irma and it will take a long time for everything to be better. Beside Florida, three other states were on alert of strong winds and a tornado. To start with, hurricane Irma cause heavy rains, so that caused severe damages with the water and an amount of people weren’t able to evacuate. Due to this, the damages are going to cost repairs. Also, it turned off power lines. In consequence places are on alert. This is a awful event and it will take about a week, so we need to be alert.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would become the central point-of-contact within the national government in responding to incidents. Since formation in 1979, FEMA’s core missions were to enhance the government’s ability to survive a foreign attack, and to assist state and local authorities in disaster response (Carafano, 2005). And while the two core missions seem heterogenous in scope at times from an outside perspective, the biggest difference between the two tasks is duration. A man-made disaster may be over in a matter of minutes as compared to a hurricane lasting several days, but in both instances the road to recovery is long. In order to streamline response and recovery in either scenario, FEMA was reorganized with new directives to support comprehensive emergency management practices (CRS, 2006). Today, FEMA provides the standard approach and guidance that many local communities may not have due to funding, training, and

This chapter provides an overview that describes the basic types of hazards threatening the United States and provides definitions for some basic terms such as hazards, emergencies, and disasters. The chapter also provides a brief history of emergency management in the federal government and a general description of the current emergency management system—including the basic functions performed by local emergency managers. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the all-hazards approach and its implications for local emergency management.

“Social media makes the community part of the actual crisis communication response. For example…Twitter was used to quickly share initial information and updates during the 2007 and 2008 California wildfires, 2008 Mumbai massacre, 2009 crash of US Airways Flight 1549, 2010 Haiti earthquake, and 2011 Tunisian uprising.” This information, again in Veil’s 2011 article, reinforces the idea of how social media communication is highly beneficial and furthers an individual’s ability to remain informed on current events.

At 6pm on April 30th, 2014, a life-threatening disaster struck the Florida panhandle. At that time, Florida residents were not aware of the rain and flooding that was about engulf Pensacola and the surrounding areas. But as time began to pass, it became obvious this was not an ordinary storm. As the rain poured and the lightning struck, many people lost power and television connection, unable to see that what was thought to be a small storm would set national records and be the cause for severe-weather threats. This event taught me how to prevent a disastrous situation in dire conditions as well as the importance of being prepared.

In the article “Millions wait for the lights to come back on” by Jess Bidgood and Vivian Yee, the newspaper article will inform you about what's going on to the situation by some floridians did not have power well other floridians did. Some people in the area where the storm hit they were struggling without power for essentials. Lots of people in florida salvage everything and anything they could can get and cooked it over gas stoves. Power repair crews were working as fast and and hard as they could for the power to turn back on. Governor rick scott stated is it going to take a while to turn the power back on for the floridians. A very good percent of florida's people after the storm were left without power. The main priority for florida

South Florida is particularly vulnerable to the effects of major hurricanes. The sub-tropical weather places the region directly in the historical path of seasonal storms. The area has faced repeated battering by major storms over the decades (Blake, Landsea, Gibney, & I.M. Systems Group, August 2011). Furthermore, the geographic location and the constraints of being located on a peninsula create unique and difficult challenges for the population during these events. The millions of people that live from Okeechobee Lake to Key West are vulnerable to the destruction capable by a major hurricane. Emergency responders must be prepared to deal with these issues when planning and responding to large scale events.

Anywhere else in the country people will get prepared for hurricanes, buying sandbags, boarding up windows and stocking up on water and nonperishable items… But in Tampa we get prepared for hurricane parties! We go out and buy chips, alcohol, and make sure we have enough board games in case the power goes

Make the case for retaining an all-hazards approach to emergency management that includes terrorism and its associated hazards as one of many hazards. Discuss the pros and cons of such an approach as it relates to all four phases of emergency management: Mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery An all all-hazards approach provides a basic framework for responding to a wide variety of hazards, it does not mean literally being prepared for everything.

So how do Floridians cope with these disasters? Right now the Red Cross offers a variety of services during an emergency. The Red Cross offers "mass care", which is the most well known disaster relief activity employed which includes providing shelter for those seeking refuge from a hurricane as well offering food and clothing. They also provide "emergency assistance." This assistance is geared toward

Government at all levels plays an important role during disaster management. Actions and roles of each government agencies are spelled out in the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the National Response Framework (NRF). But before we go into details on the roles of governments, let me first of all explain what constitute emergency and emergency management, just to give clearer understanding some of these terms. Then I will examine the roles of governments at all level including first responder actions, mutual support, lead and support roles.

Reliable and accessible communication and information technology is irreplaceable tools of communications to the community (The associated Press and NORC,2013). The importance of social, medical presence became evident during the time of Super storm, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram were all utilized during the disaster to communicate with victims, families, responders and share the ever changing events. Social media presence encourages community involvement, with the accessibility, recently updated status, and current developing actions. For example, the New York of Emergency Management provided hourly updates and evacuation orders via twitter and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie relayed updates about the storm and aid and evacuation orders via his personal twitter

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.