Questions and Answers of Introduction to Emergency Management

5. If your symptoms match those described and you are in the group considered at risk, immediately seek emergency medical attention.
4. Consider if you are in the group or area authorities believe to be in danger.
3. Use common sense, practice good hygiene and cleanliness to avoid spreading germs, and seek medical advice.
2. Do not assume, however, that you should go to a hospital emergency room or that any illness is the result of the biological attack. Symptoms of many common illnesses may overlap.
1. If a family member becomes sick, it is important to be suspicious.
20 Where should you seek emergency medical care if you become sick?
19 Where? Who should get them?
18 Are medications or vaccines being distributed?
17 What are the signs and symptoms of the disease?
16 Are you in the group or area authorities consider in danger?
15 What do you see as the biggest challenges facing emergency management at the federal, state, or local level?
13 What are the potential benefits to, FEMA as an organization within DHS?
12. How did Hurricane Katrina affect terrorism preparedness in the United States?
11. How did the states respond to the terrorist threat?
10. What was the purpose of the 911 Commission? What did the Commission find?
How Hurricane Katrina affected terrorism preparedness and response?
How state and local governments manage the risk of terrorism
Why the 9/11 Commission was formed and what was found as a result of its investigation
How the U.S. government communicates terrorist threat information to the public
How the federal government funds first responders
How the Department of Homeland Security was formed, its components, its role in the emergency management and counterterrorism efforts, and its accomplishments
The events of September 11, 2001, the consequences of those events, and how the government responded
How the government's hazard focus has been affected by the changing risk of terrorism
13. How does the U.S. government provide assistance to disaster-affected nations?
12. What are the four common characteristics shared by the NGOs?
11. Name the various classifications of nongovernmental organizations, and describe each.
10. How does UNOCHA help nations mitigate and prepare for disasters?
8. What is the purpose of the, UNDP Recovery Unit?
3. When does a disaster require international involvement?
Assistance provided by the United States government to other nations affected by disasters Involvement of the international financial institutions, including the World Bank and the International
The nongovernmental response to international disasters
How several of the United Nations components respond to disasters
Important issues that influence how international disasters are managed
Why and how national, international, and nongovernmental organizations assist countries that are affected by major disasters
How developing nations are affected by disasters
11. What is a VOAD, and what does it do?
10. What federal agencies besides, FEMA provide recovery assistance, and what kind of assistance does each provide?
2. What is a Disaster Recovery Center?
How to develop a Community Long-Term Recovery Plan?
The role of the National Disaster Recovery Framework?
Tools that are available for community recovery planning?
The role of national voluntary relief organizations?
7. How federal agencies other than, FEMA contribute to disaster recovery
6. The recovery programs administered by, FEMA to fuel individual and community recovery operations
5. The role of the federal government in disaster recovery operations
15. What are some of the reasons why communications among responding agencies is crucial?
13. What is the National Response Framework?
12. At whose discretion is the decision to make a disaster declaration?
11. What is the role of the incident commander?
10. What are the five major management systems within the Incident Command System?
3. What drives the actions of local first responders?
The National Response Framework, its affiliated agencies, and how it functions?
How the federal government provides assistance in the aftermath of a declared disaster
The presidential disaster declaration process
What the Incident Command System (ICS) is, and how it functions
The contribution of volunteer organizations to disaster response efforts
How states are involved in emergency management
The roles and responsibilities of local first responders and emergency managers
10. List and summarize the seven elements of an effective disaster communications capability.
4. What is the goal of a media partnership?
Building an effective disaster communications capability?
Disaster communications in a changing media world
Communicating in the homeland security era
Which audiences, or customers, receive disaster communications
The mission and five assumptions of an effective disaster communications strategy
4. Assist a local small business or nonprofit organization in identifying their hazards and mitigating their risks (often called a Business Continuity Plan, or Continuity of Operations Plan). Several
10. Name the ways that the National Preparedness Directorate guides national preparedness efforts.
3. What are the steps involved in the preparedness cycle?
How businesses and nongovernmental organizations prepare for emergencies?
How training and equipment help first responders to prepare
The types of exercises and what each involves
How the Emergency Management Institute promotes community-level disaster preparedness
Why special consideration must be made for certain populations when planning for emergencies and disasters
Why evacuation planning is important
How, FEMA's Community and Family Preparedness Program educates the public about disasters
The difference between mitigation and preparedness
Why preparedness is considered the building block of emergency management
13. Do nonfederal mitigation programs exist?
12. Name the primary federal mitigation programs, and explain how they serve to reduce hazard risk.
11. What are some impediments faced by communities wishing to perform hazard mitigation?
21 Mitigation methods in practice through specific case studies?
20 Federal and nonfederal mitigation programs
19 Impediments to mitigation and other associated problems
18 The variety of mitigation tools available to planners
16. Name several of the social factors emergency managers must consider when assessing a community's risk.
15. What six steps are common to most risk assessment methodologies?
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 nine of the top ten natural disasters ranked by, FEMA relief costs?
11. How are severe weather storms measured?
10. What are the three categories of wildland fires?
8. What is a SLOSH model used to measure?
6. What scale is used to describe the intensity of hurricanes?
5. Describe the process by which hurricanes form.
4. How are earthquakes measured?
1. How is a hazard different from a disaster?
Social and economic risk factors and how they influence a community's risk profile?
How hazard risks are assessed
The terrorist threat, including weapons of mass destruction
Technological hazards and their causes and effects

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