PEPCON disaster

Disasters are incidents or accidents that are disruptive, tragic, and in many instances result in deadly and injurious events. Emergency management seek to apply science and technology, planning and management to deal with disasters that can result into death or injury of several people and destruction of property within the community, state, and the nation. Emergency management make effort to eliminate or at least lessen the number of losses and cost through execution of strategies that reflect

Abstract This paper will discuss some of the forms of violence that occurs following disasters. Natural and man-made disasters may result in significant devastation, causing a total collapse of the affecting community, the law enforcement that oversees the community, availability of health care, the displacement of people; all are contributing factors to potential violence. The resulting impact of the affected community is significantly compounded on the most vulnerable. Emergency personnel

Throughout history, there has been many close calls with natural disasters, such as hurricanes, twisters, and earthquakes. For this reason alone, many organizations today realize the importance to design or perhaps review their disaster plans. These plans should include detailed documentation to counteract the interruption or destruction of technology used in the facility. One perfect example, would be in the healthcare industry. In the last couple of years, hospitals have been transitioning from

organizations to ensure that all U.S. citizens enjoy healthy and fruitful lives. Through these planned, ongoing collaborative efforts, available resources can be maximized to provide the greatest benefit and support for all of our communities. Disaster programs are particularly important in bringing stability back to families and allowing the affected communities to continue to thrive after the chaos of the initial trauma. The phrase ‘it takes a community to raise a child’ has been used to indicate

Authors Bio Susan Beth Pfeffer decided that she wanted to be a writer when her father dedicated the law book he was writing to his daughter. Right then and there she wrote her first little story about the love between a pair of scissors and an Oreo cookie. Her childhood experiences form the basis of her writing, seeing that she grew up in the suburbs in New York. This explains why most of her books focus on young people growing up in the suburbs. Pfeffer went on to New York University. After getting

that we must always plan to be ready for a disaster (CDC.gov, 2015). Disasters are sudden events, such as an accident or natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life. Merriam-Webster defines it in this manner; something (such as a flood, tornado, fire, plane crash that happens suddenly and causes much suffering or loss to many people; something that has a very bad effect or result. In addition, a complete or terrible failure. When a disaster occurs, communities turn to hospitals not

nothing like Claude Davies’ the lost ways. The lost ways are a series of books that revisit the way human beings were able to survive in the wild before technology lulled us into a false sense of security. This is more than a how to guide to survive disasters but it offers insights on how you can survive anything and everything. It asks how one would survive without electricity, computers, TV, law enforcements and other agents that affect the way we go about our daily lives. The Lost Ways Survival

Environmental change could be highly threatening for kids in expanding countries. Natural disasters affect every one of us, how an individual reacts and recoups from a disaster can decrease post-traumatic stress. Natural disasters affect every one of us, how an individual reacts and recovers can decrease the chance of post-traumatic stress. While fatal events can be disastrous to a group; the effect it has on individuals can bring on constant weaknesses. The here and now and long haul mental influence

pursuing mitigation programs as a means to do so. To fund mitigation, arguments need to be developed to persuade those who has authority to approve and release funding. The additional mitigation benefit are cost savings, one that is not realized until a disaster happens, and increased resiliency. These additional benefits is what sways the bureaucracy which looks at the cost verses benefits and cost savings; it is key to fund mitigation programs. Mr. Brent Woodworth, Chairman of Multihazard Mitigation Council

non-profit sectors need to work as a team during crisis because it is not only up to the public sector to provide the necessary services during a disaster. 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