Questions and Answers of Introduction to Emergency Management

4. Take a community emergency response team (CERT) course. To find a course being provided near you, visit the Citizen Corps CERT Web site (https://www.citizencorps.gov/cert).
3. Contact your local ham radio organization and take a certification course.Use your certification to get involved in local response. You can get more information from the Amateur Radio Relay League
2. What is the primary difference between the command and control and the coordination response models?
1. Contact your State National Guard office. Find out what kinds of resources they can offer to assist local communities in the event of a disaster and what kind of training and exercise they conduct
15. What are some of the reasons why communications among responding agencies is crucial?Out of Class Exercises
14. What is the National Response Plan?
13. At whose discretion is the decision to make a disaster declaration?
12. What are the basic steps involved in a presidential disaster declaration at each level of government?
11. What is the role of the incident commander?
10. What are the five major management systems within the incident command system?
9. What is the incident command system, and why was it originally developed?
8. What kinds of things do volunteer organizations provide for victims in the aftermath of a disaster?
7. What is the principal source of funding for state emergency management offices?
6. Where does the emergency management office reside at the state level? Give three examples.
5. Who usually is in charge of developing and maintaining the community emergency plan?
4. Where can you find a detailed description of the roles and responsibilities of first responders in your community?
3. What drives the actions of local first responders?
2. What is the role of first responders when a routine, “minor disaster” occurs in a local community?
1. How is the National Guard deployed to assist in response to a disaster?
Would disaster response be more efficient if the federal government had the authority to assume power over any disaster response, regardless of the ability of local response agencies? Why or why not?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the National Response Plan?
What is the most effective, but also the most expensive land-use planning tool?Why is it so effective?
Why is it more difficult to analyze, and therefore mitigate, the effects of terrorism?
17. What are some of the factors that make up a community’s economic profile?How do these factors influence that community’s disaster risk?
15. What six steps are common to most risk assessment methodologies?16. Name several of the social factors emergency managers must consider when assessing a community’s risk.
14. List and describe four categories of weapons of mass destruction.
13. What is the source of most hazardous materials incidents?
12. What single disaster type caused 9 of the top 10 natural disasters ranked by FEMA relief costs?
11. How are severe weather storms measured?
10. What are the three categories of wildland fires?
9. Why was the Fujita-Pearson tornado scale updated in 2006, and what changes were made?
8. What is a SLOSH model used to measure?
7. What are the various ways that hurricanes cause damages to a community?
6. What scale is used to describe the intensity of hurricanes?
5. Describe the process by which hurricanes form.
4. How are earthquakes measured?
3. What scale is commonly used to describe the effects of earthquakes?
2. What is the most frequent and widespread disaster-causing hazard?
1. How is a hazard different than a disaster?
Are there any natural hazards that you or your community can ignore because your geographic location preclude you from risk? Which hazards, and why can you ignore them?
Do any natural hazards affect your community routinely? What actions has the community taken to mitigate these recurrent hazards? Have these actions been successful in reducing the consequences or
Have any of your community’s natural hazards resulted in a major disaster?
What hazards does your community face?
13. How did the poor response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster change emergency management in the United States
12. Why was the response to Hurricane Katrina so ineffective?
11. List the steps involved in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
10. What changes did the creation of the Department of Homeland Security bring about for the federal emergency management capacity?
9. How did James Lee Witt improve FEMA?
8. Why was FEMA an agency in trouble at the close of the 1980s?
7. Describe the events of the 1970s that led to the creation of FEMA.
6. What disaster led to the creation of the National Flood Insurance Program?
5. How did the Cold War era contribute to the evolution of modern emergency management?
4. What is the significance of the Flood Control Act of 1934?
3. What is the first example of the federal government becoming involved in a local disaster? What was provided?
2. According to the Constitution, does the federal government have a primary or secondary role in managing public risks?
1. What are some of the first examples of emergency management?
What has been the most significant result of the 9/11 attacks for state and local emergency managers?
What did the two 9/11-related after-action reports say about the capabilities of first responders?
How much money did the federal government spend in the response to and recovery from the 9/11 attacks?
What is the purpose of the UNDP-led Global Partnership for Preparedness?
Why were the Hyogo Framework for Action and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction developed?
What is the National Disaster Recovery Framework?
What is Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning, and why is it so important?
Discuss the role of social media outlets before, during, and after Hurricane Sandy made landfall in the states of New Jersey and New York.
Discuss how emergency managers/homeland security officials can build an effective crisis communications strategy in a changing media world.
Discuss how emergency managers can “operationalize” data generated by social media users before, during, and after a disaster event.
Discuss how information posted on social media sites might be harvested by government officials in order to increase their situational awareness and make resource allocation decisions.
Discuss the emergence of social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube as a preferred means of communications before, during, and after a disaster event.
Discuss how the role of the traditional media in crisis communications has changed.
Identify and discuss the four critical assumptions underlying the crisis communications efforts of the Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA) in the 1990s.
Describe the activities associated with the National Preparedness Goal.
Name the National Planning Frameworks and describe their purpose.
Name five functional needs populations, and describe what makes their disaster planning needs unique.
Why are structural controls a controversial mitigation tool? How can structural mitigations negatively affect the areas they are presumably protecting?
What are the most effective as well as the most expensive land-use planning tools? Why are they so effective?
What are the various ways that hurricanes cause damage to a community?
How relevant is social media in disaster response and recovery?
What is the significance of the Flood Control Act of 1936?
What impact has Hurricane Sandy had on FEMA’s responsibilities and changes to the DRF?
What is the purpose of the FSMAUGO methodology
What political arguments can be used to support taking mitigation actions?
How has the role of social media expanded in the coverage of disaster since 2004?
How have the changes in media coverage changed how emergency managers must deliver timely and accurate information to the public?
Name several types of social media and describe how they have been used in recent years in communicating disaster information.
What changes have been made since Hurricane Sandy for entities to be eligible for Public Assistance grant funding?
How does the terrorism hazard differ from its natural and technological counterparts?
How do states respond to the terrorist threat?
What are some of the first examples of emergency management?
According to the Constitution, does the federal government have a primary or secondary role in managing public risks?
What is the significance of the Flood Control Act of 1934?
How did the Cold War era contribute to the evolution of modern emergency management?
What disaster led to the creation of the National Flood Insurance Program?
Describe the events of the 1970s that led to the creation of, FEMA.
Why was, FEMA an agency in trouble at the close of the 1980s?
How did James Lee Witt improve, FEMA?
What changes did the creation of the Department of Homeland Security bring about for the federal emergency management capacity?
List the steps involved in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
Why was the response to Hurricane Katrina so ineffective?
How did the poor response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster change emergency management in the United States?
What area of emergency management did DHS/, FEMA seek to emphasize in 2009?

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