According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website, the Incident Command System (ICS) was developed “in the aftermath of a devastating wildfire in California” (NIMS, 2004) in 1970. During the fire “16 lives were lost, 700 structures were destroyed, and over one-half million acres burned” at the expense of “$18 million per day” (NIMS, 2004) in overall costs. The responding agencies worked as well as they could together but they had many communications issues. Three years after the
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PA 584 Week 6 Intergovernmental Management You Decide Assignment The ethical issue at hand is that the FEMA Training Manager Jim Phanner, who is also in charge of providing the federal grant to the state, is trying to persuade me to use the service of one of his friend’s company. Jim mentioned that he is the one who was in charge of providing the grant and that his friend Pat Provedor
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natural hazard. The probability of a dangerous event occurring. B) What does mitigation mean? Make plans and take actions to eliminate or reduce the threat of future death and destruction when natural hazards suddenly become great threats. 6. FEMA promotes a family disaster plan - list the 4 steps of the plan. 1. Identify the types of disasters most likely to occur and how to prepare for them. 2. Create a family disaster plan. 3. Take Action. 4. Practice the Plan
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to safety. Unfortunately, the situation is not changing any time soon. The swollen rivers will not crest until later in the week. Already, federal officials expect 450,000 people will need disaster assistance and 30,000 people will need shelters. FEMA is encouraging citizens with boats to volunteer to rescue stranded residents. The National Weather Service recently announced that the tropical system hit a record level of total rainfall. In southeast Houston, 49.32 inches of rain has been recorded
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very emotional, but I reassured them that they would be alright and that God would protect us. When the storm was over, it was very difficult for us to live. However, what made differences was our neighbors support, relatives, red cross, as well as FEMA. We had to evacuate from home to live with a church friend. I really felt devastating at this time, which gave me a thought to returned the children. Furthermore, I am glad I made a good decision to keep them and struggles through. We eventually returned
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There are several ways to describe the organizational structure of the Army. For this report I will explain the structure of the Army (which includes both active and reserve soldiers) and the makeup of the operational Army and the institutional Army. The organization of the U.S. Army for the majority of the 20th century and all of the post-Cold War era has consisted of three components—the active component and the two reserve components (the Army National Guard and the United States Army Reserve)
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Individual Expertise vs. Collective Wisdom To quote James Surowiecki’s book, The Wisdom of Crowds, “Groups do not need to be dominated by exceptionally intelligent people in order to be smart.”(Surowiecki xiii) Surowiecki’s claim offers the argument that when a crowd consists of diverse, independent, decentralized individuals, their aggregated responses will be more accurate than even the predictions of experts. Although I find myself agreeing with Surowiecki’s findings, I am now of the two
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plans, each state has it written into their response plan, in the event local and state assets are depleted or inadequate to handle the emergency or disaster they will request help from the federal government, the lead agency in this case would be FEMA. Plans formulated at the state level are similar to the National Response Framework. The National Response Framework is set up to pull in federal resources and independent agencies to provide assistances in the event of major disasters and
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Walmart Slide1 Welcome to our presentation, our topic is Walmart, I will present the pro arguments for Walmart and Cherrif will present the arguments against Walmart. Slide 2 First of all I want to say some basic facts about walmart. Sam Walton created walmart in the year 1962 and he opened the first walmart in the same year in 1962 in Arkansas. Today we can say walmart has more than 9000 stores worldwide and its spread over 15 countries. Think about it for a second Sam Walton created walmart
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Walmart Slide1 Welcome to our presentation, our topic is Walmart, I will present the pro arguments for Walmart and Cherrif will present the arguments against Walmart. Slide 2 First of all I want to say some basic facts about walmart. Sam Walton created walmart in the year 1962 and he opened the first walmart in the same year in 1962 in Arkansas. Today we can say walmart has more than 9000 stores worldwide and its spread over 15 countries. Think about it for a second Sam Walton created walmart
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