Intro to Emergency Management Test 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Intro to Emergency Management Test 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass What is an emergency? Predictable day to day events (house/building fires), resources are available for response and recovery, relatively predictable, based on community data What is a disaster? Events that disrupt day to day activities within a community (local floods/tornadoes), resources are stretched to the limit where state regional and or federal resources are necessary for response and recovery What is a catastrophe? Events that disrupt day to day activities beyond the community, extending wide geographic region, resources become difficult to obtain and aid is slow to arrive coming from beyond political boundaries, federal role is central, activities of all social groups and social systems are disrupted What is preparedness? Getting ready for disaster, enhancing operations What is response? Dealing with the impact of the disaster What is recovery? Getting life back to normal What is mitigation? Activities to eliminate or decrease disaster impact Disaster Relief Act (1950/1974) After WWII Homeland Security (2002) After 9/11 What is Hazard Tradition? A disaster waiting to happen in your community What is Disaster Tradition? A disaster that has occurred in your community What is Risk and Perception Tradition The odds that something bad is going to happen in your community What is Organization Theory Necessity, reciprocity, efficiency, stability What did National Governors Association Report (1978) do? Suggested improvements to federal disaster management What did President Jimmy Carter () do? Recognized the need to centralize the nations emergency services Who named James Lee Witt as the FEMA director? Clinton (first state emergency manager to hold the same post for the country) What did the Stafford Act of 1988 do? Established a disaster declaration process, eventually changed declaration of emergency What are the dual tracks of Emergency Management? Civil defense, natural and technological disasters What is the Presidential Policy directive (2011) National preparedness is a shared responsibility of all levels of government, private and nonprofit sectors and individual citizens. Who was the first emergency manager? Why? Noah, he knew of threat, warned others, prepared for the threat, and saved who wanted to be saved What is the All-Hazards Approach? Planning, preparing for, and responding to an event based on a range of hazards as a measure of economy; assumes similarity of functions across hazards (e.g. communication, mass care) What are the 4 sectors of emergency management? 1. Public 2. Private 3. Volunteer 4. International