Fundamentals of Emergency Management Test Questions Answered Correctly (Latest Update )

Fundamentals of Emergency Management Test Questions Answered Correctly (Latest Update ) What is emergency management? - Answers the managerial function charged w/ creating the framework w/in which communities reduce vulnerability to threats/hazards and cope w/ disasters What are the overall goals of emergency management? - Answers - to reduce the loss of life - minimize property loss and damage to the environment - protect the jurisdiction from all threats and hazards EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES - Answers Comprehensive Progressive Risk-driven Collaborative Coordinated Flexible Professional EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES Comprehensive - Answers EMERGENCY MANAGERS CONSIDER AND TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ALL THREATS/HAZARDS, ALL PHASES, ALL STAKEHOLDERS, AND ALL IMPACT RELEVANT TO DISaster EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES *Progressive* - Answers EM consider anticipate future disasters and take protective, preventive, and preparatory measures to build disaster-resistant and disaster-resilient communities EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE *Risk-driven* - Answers EM use sound risk management principles (threat/hazard identification, risk analysis, and impact analysis) in assigning priorities and resources *EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE* Integrated: - Answers EM ensure unity of effort among all levels of government and all elements of a community EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE *Coordinated* - Answers EM synchronize the activities of all relevant stakeholders to achieve a common purpose Core Capabilities - Answers Prevention Mission Area Core Capabilities Prevention Mission Area Core Capabilities - Answers 1.) Planning 2.) Public Information and Warning 3.) Operational Coordination 4.) Forensics and Attribution 5.) Intelligence and Information Sharing Interdiction & disruption 6.) Screening Searching and Detection RESPONSE MISSION AREA CORE CAPABILITIES - Answers 1.) Planning 2.) Public Information Warning 3.) Operational Conditioning 4.) Critical Transportation 5.) Environmental Response/Health and Safety 6.) Fatality Management Services 7.) Infrastructure Systems 8.) Mass Care System 9.) Mass Search and Rescue Operations 10.) On-Scene Security and Protection 11.) Operational Communications 12.) Public and Private Services and Resources 13.) Public Health and Medical Services 14.) Situational Assessment Key Topics of *Lesson 1 Emergency Management* - Answers - Emergency management definition - Integrated emergency management - Emergency management principles - Response authorities - Evolving Doctrine What are the response authorities? - Answers •The Congressional Act of 1803 • Defense Production Act of 1950 • Executive Order 10427 • Executive Order 12127 • Strafford Act • Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act (PKEMRA) • The Sand Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 *The Congressional Act of 1803* - Answers - was the earliest effort to provide disaster relief on a new Federal level after a fire devastated a NH town - before 1800s disasters were primarily managed with local resources *Defense Production Act of 1950* - Answers - was the first comprehensive legislation pertaining to federal disaster relief - gave the president authority to issue disaster declarations that allowed Federal agencies to provide direct assistance to State and local *Executive Order 10427:* - Answers - emphasized that Federal disaster assistance was supplemental to state, local, and private-sector support - Truman attests that Federal Disaster Assistant is meant to supplement not supplant, the resources of State, local, and private-sector *Executive Order 12127:* - Answers - (Carter's 1979) merged many separate disaster-related responsibilities into a new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Coordinate federal emergency authorities, including the administration of disaster response and recovery programs Assume the role of federal disaster assistance administration and assume responsibilities from the Federal Preparedness Agency, the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, the Federal Insurance Administration, the Office of Emergency Preparedness, and the U.S. Fire