Questions and Answers of Introduction to Emergency Management

Define drills and tasks.
List the elements of the emergency management program.
Define State Capability Assessment for Readiness (CAR) program.
Identify who can obtain the EMAP accreditation.
What is the economic base of your community?
Name the four principal disaster recovery functions.
Explain the three major misconceptions about recovery that a community must overcome in pre-impact recovery planning.
What is the role of Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) after a disaster strikes?
What is the problem with giving aid to uninsured disaster victims?
Name the main types of federal government programs that provide recovery assistance.
Explain why small businesses are more vulnerable than large businesses.
Name and describe the four stages of housing recovery following a disaster.
Why is it important to develop pre-impact plans for disaster recovery?
Explain the economic base model.
Describe the role of mass care facilities.
Define nonconforming uses.
Define victims’ needs assessment.
Explain the differences among rapid assessment, preliminary assessment, and site assessment.
Explain the function of an unmet needs committee.
Identify what the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, and local churches often provide after a disaster.
Explain the purpose of a recovery/mitigation committee.
List several tasks that local government must perform during disaster recovery.
Name some problems with flood insurance requirements.
Describe hazard insurance.
Explain why many loan programs have been inaccessible to low-income households.
Name the tasks that the human services branch of the ERT operations section is responsible for.
Identify the differences among business sectors in their patterns of recovery.
Discuss the subtle ways in which a disaster can affect businesses.
Identify the similarities and differences across ethnic groups in household recovery from disasters.
Name the three modes by which households recover from disasters.
Name the other strategies that households who lack adequate insurance coverage must use to cope with their losses.
Explain why lower-income households tend to have higher hazard exposure.
Explain the differences between short-term and long-term decisions in postdisaster recovery.
Explain why communities must identify and respond to specific problems that arise during recovery.
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.

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