Question

For Disasters, Plan and preparedness for disasters by homeland security. FEMA defines the preparation of planning, organizing, training, equipping, evaluating, and taking corrective action to ensure effective coordination during incident response. Respond to, and recover from natural disasters, acts of the hurricane, wildfire, and other emergencies?

Answer 1

Plan and Prepare for disasters

• Definition: "a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, evaluating, and taking corrective action in an effort to ensure effective coordination during incident response" defined by DHS/FEMA.

FEMA:

Future incidents will yield additional lessons learned, underscoring the fact that national preparedness is an ongoing effort and requires continuous improvement, innovation, and action to build the capabilities needed to address the Nation’s evolving risks.

National Preparedness Report takes a revised approach that includes an in-depth analysis of five core capabilities that have been identified in past National Preparedness Reports as facing persistent challenges:

Operational Coordination, Infrastructure Systems,

1. Housing, Economic Recovery,
2. Cybersecurity

FEMA defines:-

• Planning
• organizing
• training
• equipment
• evaluating
• taking corrective action

Planing:A Requirements for evalution for floor or a volcanic eruption may differ significantly from those requires for evacuation during a hazardous materials spill. plan need to be adaptable to circimstances, be innovative. , and when necessary, improvisational.

• At the community level, housing can be restricted on flood plains, earthquake or fire resistant building codes can be strictly enforced and hazardous materials stored away from residential areas.
• at the individual level, fire risks can be eliminated, first aid and safety suplies stocked and a household evacuatin plan established.

Recover from Natural Disaster, Acts of the Hurricane, wiledfire and othe emergencies:

1. common terminology - use of similar terms and definitions for resource descriptions, organizational functions, and incident facilities across disciplines.
2. Integrated communications - ability to send and receive information within an organization, as well as externally to other disciplines.
3. Modular organization -response resources are organized according to their responsibilities. Assets within each functional unit may be expanded or contracted based on the requirements of the event.
4. Manageable span of control - response organization is structured so that each supervisory level oversees an appropriate number of assets (varies based on size and complexity of the event) so it can maintain effective supervision.
5. Comprehensive resource management - systems in place to describe, maintain, identify, request, and track resources.

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