Historic Incidents
This event occurred during these years in the Bay Area, CA: 1836, 1838, 1865, 1868, 1892, 1898, 1906.
What are large earthquakes?
This is why ongoing community engagement is so important for emergency preparedness and response.
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These are the three locations in which you should store an emergency preparedness kit.
What is your home, car, and workplace?
This is what the acronym HSPR stands for.
What is Health, Security, Preparedness, and Response?
This device is used to measure the shaking of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
In 1944, this historical disaster during a Barnum and Bailey circus event led to the deaths of over 170 people.
What is a fire?
This rotating HSPR employee is available via phone for public health partners to report current incidents.
What is the Duty Officer?
This is the correct amount of water to store per person per day in case of emergency.
What is 1 gallon?
All incidents start at this level.
What is local?
This island nation was devastated by a tsunami caused by a Cascadia earthquake on January 27th, 1700.
What is Japan. Bonus: we know this from the Japanese records and diaries.
This recent summer event was considered the second deadliest natural disaster in Oregon history. For extra credit, how many people died as a result of the event?
What was the extreme heat of 2021? Extra credit: 79+
This system connects hospitals, clinics, laboratories, public safety, EMS and many other public health partners via secure web applications that facilitate information sharing throughout Oregon and SW Washington.
What is the Health Alert Network (HAN)?
Name 5 items that should be included in an emergency preparedness kit.
(any of the following): What are water, food, flashlight, battery-powered radio, first aid kit, batteries, whistle, dust mask, duct tape, can opener, wrench or pliers, local maps, hand sanitizer, medications, sleeping bag, pet food, cash, important documents, fire extinguisher, matches, feminine supplies, bags, eyeglasses or contacts, etc.
This is what the acronym ICS stands for.
What is the Incident Command System?
This is the cause of nearly 85 percent of forest fires.
What are humans?
In 1996, this event uprooted thousands of lives and destroyed businesses throughout the Portland metro and surrounding areas.
What is the 1996 Willamette Valley flood?
This is the official name for the national repository of antibiotics, vaccines, chemical antidotes, antitoxins, and other medical supplies that can be used in case of national disaster.
What is the Strategic National Stockpile?
Name two of the four steps to being prepared.
What is be informed, make a plan, build a kit, take action?
This breadbox size piece of equipment is issued to every HSPR staff person as part of their onboarding process.
What is a solar powered backup energy supply?
This is the most dangerous volcano in the contiguous 48 states of America
What is Mt. St. Helens?
In 1919, a large storage tank containing this substance exploded in Boston, Massachusetts killing 21 people and injuring 150.
What is molasses?
This council advises OHA, OEM, and ODHS on access and functional needs issues related to emergency preparedness and response.
What is DEMAC (Disability Emergency Management Advisory Council)
This emergency notification system will send lifesaving alerts and instructions to your phone during emergencies in Oregon.
What is OR-Alert?
These are the 5 main areas for management of major incidents.
What is command, operations, planning, logistics, and finance/admin?
This event prompted the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
What is the Second Italian War of Independence.