Disaster Selection Research

Over the past decade or two, there have been numerous large disasters in the news that required a large incident response. Your assignment will be to select the scaled disaster of your choice. You will perform research on the public safety and healthcare response to your chosen disaster.

Write a 500 to 600 words paper in which you describe your chosen incident, and then discuss the professional response. Critically analyze what went right and what went wrong with the response. Consider: Was the response adequate? Were proper resources deployed? Was there a previous disaster management plan in place that contemplated this disaster? Were healthcare resources overwhelmed? Then use research on disaster response theories to back up your papers position.

You may chose whatever major event you would like, but here are some possibilities: Hurricane Katrina Japanese tsunami World Trade Tower Attacks A train or aircraft crash Recent U.S. earthquakes Mining cave-ins Russian meteor strike Boston Marathon bombing Movie theater/school shooter