Planning and Preparedness
The four phases of emergency management include Response, Recovery, Preparedness, and this.
What is mitigation?
This officer makes quick on-scene decisions at the start of an emergency.
Who is the Incident Commander?
This 2012 storm caused over 70 billion dollars in damage across 24 states.
What is Hurricane Sandy?
This type of emergency includes injuries and requires skills like CPR or AED use.
What are medical events or accidents?
This system uses a structured on-scene response and includes roles like Safety Officer.
What is the Incident Command System (ICS)?
This process ranks risks using probability, human impact, and resource strength.
What is vulnerability analysis?
This person manages communication with the media and releases statements.
Who is the Public Information Officer?
These events from 2016–2018 totaled over 70 incidents according to ALERRT & FBI reports.
What are active shooter incidents?
A situation where smoke or flames require a facility to be evacuated.
What is a fire emergency?
This national structure guides all levels of government and the private sector in incident response.
What is the National Incident Management System (NIMS)?
These agreements are made with external agencies like the police or the Red Cross for assistance.
What are mutual aid agreements?
This officer monitors safety conditions and reports hazards to command.
Who is the Safety Officer?
This city in Missouri saw major civil unrest in 2014.
What is Ferguson, Missouri?
A chemical spill may require this protective action inside a building.
What is Shelter in Place?
This facility serves as a centralized location for decision-making during emergencies.
What is an Emergency Operations Center (EOC)?
These drills include evacuation, functional, and full-scale versions.
What are emergency drills?
This group may include police, fire, EMS, and internal security teams.
Who are emergency responders? (police, fire, EMS, security)
This Florida nightclub shooting is cited as a major emergency response example.
What is the Pulse Nightclub shooting?
These threats involve suspicious items that must be taken seriously after 9/11.
What are bomb threats or suspicious packages?
Developed by NFPA, this standard outlines 14 criteria for emergency management programs.
What is NFPA 1600?
This practice tests a plan by reviewing fictional scenarios around a table.
What is a tabletop exercise?
This professional must be ready 24/7 and is often first on the scene.
Who is the professional protection officer?
This type of disaster includes earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires.
What are natural disasters?
This form of unrest often occurs during protests, strikes, or political tension.
What is civil disobedience?
This system uses concepts like unified command, span of control, and modular structure.
What is ICS? (span of control, unified command, modular structure)