Events
Minnesota lost over 9 million turkeys and other poultry due to this disease.
What is HPAI?
As a veterinary responder, you may work under several different Emergency Support Functions. Which function involves public health and medicine?
What is ESF 8?
This person has overall authority and responsibility for conducting incident operations and is responsible for the management of all incident operations at the incident site.
What is the Incident Commander?
The Incident Command System Section responsible for all administrative and financial considerations surrounding an incident.
What is the Finance/Admin Section?
This incident led to the development of the PETS Act.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This essential tool to allow interstate deployment of responders was developed by the southeastern states in the mid 1990s and has now been adopted by all 50 states and US territories.
What is EMAC?
This response group originally began under the Department of Health and Human Services and then was an AVMA program until recently. While no longer active, its main area of activity was enhancing state-level response.
What is VMAT (Veterinary Medical Assistance Team)?
This person advises the Incident Commander on issues regarding incident safety and ensures safety of all incident personnel.
What is the Safety Officer?
The Section responsible for the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of operational information related to the incident, and for the preparation and documentation of the Incident Action Plan.
What is the Planning Section?
The PETS Act authorizes this agency to reimburse expenses to help jurisdictions provide rescue, care, shelter, and essential needs for individuals with household pets and service animals, and to the household pets and animals themselves following a major disaster or emergency.
What is FEMA?
Hurricane Michael led to the first ever agriculture emergency response regarding this unique species.
What are bees?
This response group made up of veterinary professionals is housed under the National Disaster Medical System. The program is currently under revision.
What is NVRT (National Veterinary Response Team)?
A member of the Command Staff responsible for coordinating with representatives from cooperating and assisting agencies or organizations.
What is the Liaison Officer?
This section is critical on more complex incidents. This Section assists the Incident Commander and Operations Section Chief by providing the resources and services required to support incident activities.
What is the Logistics Section?
A state must apply for and receive this before the PETS Act can be requested.
What is a federal or presidential disaster declaration?
9-11 was the catalyst for the formation of this organization which is housed under the Department of Health and Human Services and made up of small local units at the city, county or regional level.
What is the Medical Reserve Corps?
Many response groups make up this organization including AVMA, ASPCA, Red Cross, Animal Humane Association. The group formed after Hurricane Katrina in an effort to streamline response and resources.
What is NARSC (National Animal Rescue and Sheltering Coalition)?
This person is responsible for developing and implementing strategy and tactics to accomplish the incident objectives.
What is the Operations Section Chief?
What Section is responsible for directing and coordinating all incident tactical operations and is typically one of the first organizations to be assigned to the incident?
What is the Operations Section?
This federal agency in partnership with state authorities will have jurisdiction over a foreign animal disease response.
What is the USDA?
This Act from 1988 allows states to ask for FEMA assistance after natural disasters.
What is the Robert T. Stafford Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (or Stafford Act)?
This is a collaborative alliance of state programs charged with planning, preparing for, and responding to disasters involving animals and agriculture that started in 2009.
What is NASAAEP (National Alliance of State Animal and Agriculture Emergency Planners)?
This person is a fully qualified individual who, in the absence of a superior, could be delegated the authority to manage a functional operation, perform a specific task or work relief for a specific position.
What is a Deputy?
The organizational level having functional or geographical responsibility for major aspects of incident operations. This level is often found in the Operations or Logistics Sections.
What is a Branch?
This Emergency Support Function is associated with search and rescue?
What is ESF 9?