Questions and Answers of Introduction to Emergency Management

Explain why it is difficult to return to social routines and economic activities immediately after a disaster.
Explain where recovery begins and ends.
Explain how the savings rate affects recovery.
Describe the major requirements of an effective evacuation protocol.
List the four reasons to implement access control and security.
Define community.
Explain the morgue functions that the county medical examiner’s office typically performs.
Name the three ways that emergency personnel can achieve the ALARA objective.
Define concept of operations.
List the seven specific functions that are the core of the incident management function.
List the objectives of agency notification.
Describe the responsibilities of the PIO.
What does threat detection include?
How can you establish guidelines for choosing hazard operations actions?
What might people need to implement protective actions?
Name and explain the three specific activities that internal direction and control involves.
There is a train derailment at the edge of your town and a tank car of liquefied natural gas is burning. Next to it is a tank car filled with chlorine gas. The wind is currently blowing away from
A tornado has destroyed a major part of your city’s industrial area. Why would you need to implement access control and security measures?
There has been an earthquake in the town for which you are the local emergency manager. You immediately see the need for heavy rescue. What steps do you take to directly address this need?
The roof of the local convention center collapsed during a major exhibition. How will you handle this mass casualty incident?
What would you say to the press if you were the PIO responsible for the communication after an explosion at a local factory where you were not sure if and how many fatalities occurred?
Define competition.
Explain why the applicability of hazard operations actions varies considerably from one hazard to another.
Explain how hazard source control measures can intervene at the hazard generation stage.
Define damage assessment and rapid damage assessment.
Explain the difference between hazard monitoring and environmental monitoring.
Define emergency classification system.
Identify emergency response functions and their specific actions.
Your community is joining with others to fight a large wildfire that is burning near subdivisions on the outskirts of town. You are the senior advisor stationed at the incident command post. What are
You are the local emergency manager for a small coastal town that is vulnerable to hurricanes. You need to design and organize an EOC. Where should the EOC be located? Why? Who will be in charge of
You are working with other agencies to discuss community emergency preparedness. What should be the relative priority for planning, training, and exercising?
Two trucks collided on a busy highway. One truck was carrying livestock, while the other truck was carrying gasoline. What steps would you take to deal with this event?
Several explosions have occurred in your community. It is a suspected terrorist attack. Are there any extra steps you need to take around the incident scene in case it is later classified as a crime
Weather forecasters are predicting a Category 5 hurricane will strike the Atlantic coast between Myrtle Beach, SC, and Kitty Hawk, NC. As an emergency manager, what steps should you take to prepare
The provisions of the EOP’s general plan are captured under seven separate headings. Name and explain these headings.
Explain how MMRS links multiple response systems.
List the eight tasks that the EOC must perform.
Name and explain the four basic emergency response functions.
An overemphasis on detail in the planning process causes four problems. Name these problems.
Name the four types of hazard agents that terrorists can use.
Define functional annex.
Compare NIMS and IMS.
What is the purpose of UASI?
Explain the goals of the MMRS program.
Briefly describe the three organizational structures that can help you in emergency response.
Explain why an EOC important?
Name the seven activities that the IC performs during an incident.
Explain the differences between IMS and ICS structures.
List four of the seven principles of the Incident Command System (ICS).
Describe the purpose of a joint information center (JIC).
Explain how population protection preparedness is different for a toxic chemical release and an earthquake.
Describe hazard source control?
Define damage assessment.
Name the five characteristics that emergency response personnel must understand to promote effective multi-organizational participation.
Explain whether emergency responders abandon their roles in a disaster.
Name the four types of disaster response organizations.
Explain EMON.
Describe how people seek information about impending disasters.
Explain how fear affects people.
Describe the basic principle about people’s action during a disaster.
Explain the difference between warning compliance and spontaneous evacuation.
Describe the differences between the conditions experienced by Holocaust survivors and the conditions experienced by survivors of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the survivors of
Identify the groups most likely to experience psychological consequences of disasters and describe the treatment they need.
Explain why two similar hazard agents will likely require the same type of response.
Identify the link between disasters and health problems.
Define policy entrepreneur.
Explain why myths about disasters can be dangers.
What evokes panic flight?
Explain the similarities and differences between creating an EOP in a small city and a large city.
Describe the therapeutic community.
Name five warning methods.
What four factors define evacuees’ destination/route choice?
Describe the different disaster response organizations produced as a result of contingencies.
What contingencies affect the level of compliance?
What are the three distinct patterns of expected citizen response to disasters?
As an emergency manager, you have been asked to describe adaptive behavior of people responding to disaster. Your audience assumes that the average person will evacuate from the disaster area before
As part of an initiative to educate the public about the dangers of myths that are related to disasters, you are writing an article for a website. Outline the key points you would make in the article.
You live in the Midwest and are watching national news coverage of a hurricane disaster off the coast of Florida. The media predicts major damage and casualties. What kind of response can you expect
You need to warn people of an approaching hurricane? What types of warning systems do you use and why?
You are evacuating a city; what factors do you consider when estimating evacuation times?
Is the rate of compliance likely to be higher with a threat of flooding or with a threat of a nuclear power plant release of radioactive materials? How about the rate of spontaneous evacuation? Why?
You are tasked with organizing volunteers who have shown up to help after a tornado has destroyed a community. How would you organize the volunteers?
As an emergency manager, you need to understand the effects of stress factors on people who survive disasters in which they lost loved ones or in which they experienced guilt from survival. Research
Name three disaster impact zones.
Describe how drivers choose the routes they take when evacuating a city.
Define evacuation trip generation.
Identify the major sources of information that people rely on in disasters.
Name three ways that warning methods differ.
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of socially integrative responses.
Explain the importance of developing donation management plans?
Explain how population segments differ in their willingness and ability to evacuate.
Explain why an emergency managers’ belief in the panic myth can lead to fewer people taking protective action.
Describe three conclusions about shock that Melick’s study shows.
Define panic.
A group of community leaders has asked you to describe the mitigation strategies that local government could implement without any outside assistance. What do you say to your audience?
What are two hazards that can be mitigated by source control?
You are building inspector in your local community. The emergency manager has asked you to create a report on building construction practices. What should you include in the report?
The federal government cannot intervene directly in local land use or building construction practices. However, it wants to change these practices because it pays for much of the high cost of
What types of mitigation strategies can people use to protect against storm surge and tsunamis?
What are the four types of flood control?

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