Preparedness/
Mitigation
Mitigation
This is the FEMA website that has preparedness information for making a plan, building a kit, and staying informed.
What is www.ready.gov?
If the power goes out after an earthquake you should not use this to light your house.
What are candles/fire.
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"Drop, Cover, and Hold On" is the response for this natural disaster.
What is an earthquake.
Basic services such as electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment and telephones may be cut off for days, a week, or even longer. This item should be kept in the event those services are out.
What is disaster supply kit?
This natural disaster appears as a rotating, funnel-shaped cloud that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground with whirling winds that can reach 300 miles per hour.
What is a tornado?
Ensuring all required or suggested immunizations are up to date is one way to mitigate this hazard.
What is a biological threat/epidemic?
Become aware of these for all the buildings you occupy regularly.
(name at least 1)
What are fire evacuation routes, earthquake plans, fire extinguishers.
If you are unable to evacuate during a tornado, this is the best place to go.
What is a safe room?
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You should keep one gallon per person per day of this item.
What is water?
To prepare for this natural disaster, secure your water heater, refrigerator, furnace, and gas appliances by strapping them to the wall studs and bolting to the floor.
What is an earthquake?
Your family may not be together when a disaster strikes. It is important to write and have this in advance.
What is an Emergency Preparedness Plan or a Family Communications Plan?(Both are correct)
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During an earthquake if a power line falls on your vehicle, you should not get out. You should do this instead.
What is wait for assistance.
Pet owners should become familiar with these locations before a disaster strikes in case of a potential evacuation.
What is identify pet-friendly hotels or shelters?
Immediately following a disaster, a community can become easily overwhelmed by the amount of generous people who want to help. This is the best way to help.
What is donating cash or affiliate with existing non-profit organizations before coming to the disaster area? (either answer is correct)
Changes in landscape such as patterns of storm-water drainage on slopes (especially the places where runoff water converges), land movement, or progressively leaning trees are all signs of this natural disaster potentially occurring.
What is a landslide?
These are some examples of FEMA social media that supports mitigation.
(name at least 2)
What is the FEMA Facebook page, the FEMA Twitter page, the FEMA YouTube page, the FEMA Smartphone Application, and the FEMA Blog?
Learn how to shut off the gas valves in your home and keep this handy for that purpose.
What is a wrench.
The best disaster supply kits will have food, water, and other supplies for at least this many hours.
What is 72 hours?
This guide enables effective recovery support to disaster-impacted States, Tribes, Territorial and local jurisdictions. It provides a flexible structure that enables disaster recovery managers to operate in a unified and collaborative manner.
What is What is the National Disaster Recovery Framework
This natural disaster is accompanied by heavy rain, intense winds that can top 155 mph, a storm surge over 18 feet, and heavy flooding along coastlines.
What is a hurricane.
Besides enough food, water, flashlights, and a first aid kit, these are other important things you should have in your emergency kit that are often forgotten.
(name at least 3)
What is medication, cash, maps, baby items/animal items, can opener, emergency contact information, face masks.
This is the name for an earthquake that is followed by an even bigger earthquake.
What is a foreshock.
Volunteers should never do this after a disaster, otherwise they can overwhelm the responders.
What is self-deploy?
This is operated by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and activated during Presidentially-declared disasters. Its mission is to assist in reuniting children separated from their parents or legal guardians in the aftermath of a disaster.
What is What is the National Emergency Child Locator Center (NECLC)?
This natural hazard caused the most fatalities in 2012 with 155. This hazard also has the highest 10-Year Average (2003-2013) with 117 fatalities according to the National Weather Service.
What is a heat wave or extreme heat?