Introduction to EM
A river overflowing it's banks and flooding is what type of emergency?
What is a Natural Emergency?
Prevention/Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery are known as what?
The Four Pillars of Emergency Management
The specific way that a hazard can affect a community, organization, or country that can be natural or caused by humans
What is a threat?
Incident Command was born out of the lessons learned from what, in the 1970's
What are the California wildfires?
HIRA and HRVA are two examples of this
What are Hazard Assessment models?
What is Emergency Management?
The continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, evaluating and taking corrective action
What is the Preparedness phase?
a combined assessment of the likelihood that a specific hazard will occur, and how bad the consequences might be. "what are the chances?"
What is a risk?
The facility that is activated to allow designated officials from various agencies and organizations to gather and support Incident Command
What is the EOC?
This is the approach that recognizes that some components of an emergency plan can be applied to a variety of types of emergencies to help optimize emergency planning and response
What is an All-Hazards Approach?
what kind of program ensures alignment with the Community's emergency management activities and help to organize people, and to prepare and respond, and recover from emergencies
What is an Emergency Program?
The Four Pillars are considered to operate in a cycle known as what?
a measure of how well prepared and equipped a community is to minimize the impact of, or to cope with the hazards.
What is vulnerability?
The role that directs the function and is responsible for conducting and managing the response activities at the emergency scene
What is Incident Command?
The first known act or law in Canada pertaining to emergency management was known as what?
What is the War Measures Act?
The are responsible for passing by-laws that enact an emergency program and ensuring that the program is staffed and resourced
What is the local authority responsibility?
A reaction to the occurrence of a catastrophic disaster or emergency aimed at saving lives, reducing economic losses and alleviating suffering
What is the Response?
an incident, phenomenon or human activity that may cause injury, death, property damage, social or economic disruption or environmental damage
What is a Hazard?
Information, Safety and Liaison are a sub unit of this role
The Convoy in Ottawa Ontario
a social phenomenon that results when a hazard exceeds a community's ability to cope which can seriously harm the safety, health, welfare, property, environment of people
What is a disaster?
The continual effort to reduce loss of life ad property by lessening the impact of disaster and emergencies
What is the Prevention/Mitigation phase?
Pandemics, pest infestations and animal illnesses are this type of hazard
Disease and epidemic
This section is responsible for the following units
Resource Unit, Situation Unit, Documentation Unit, Demobilization Unit and Technical Specialists
What is the Planning Section?
In any emergency situation, big or small the first person to put assistance into action is this role
What is the Telecommunicator/Dispatcher?