Preparedness
This is the NEMO website that has preparedness information for making a plan, building a kit, and staying informed.
What is www.nemo.org.bz?
This is one example of NEMO social media that supports mitigation.
What is the NEMO Facebook page
Actions taken directly before, during or immediately after a disaster in order to save lives, reduce health impacts, ensure public safety and meet the basic subsistence needs of the people affected.
What is response?
Basic services such as electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment and telephones may be cut off for days or even a week, or longer. This item should be kept in the event those services are out.
What is disaster supply kit?
A storm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74 miles per hour or more
What is a Hurricane?
This initiative by Red Cross and NEMO educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations.
What is a Community Disaster Response Team (CDRT)? (Community Emergency Response Team CERT is also correct)
The lessening or minimizing of the adverse impacts of a hazardous event
What is mitigation?
If you are unable to evacuate during a hurricane, this is the best place to go.
What is a safe room?
To prepare for this natural disaster, secure your water heater, refrigerator, and gas appliances by strapping them to the wall studs and bolting to the floor.
What is an earthquake?
Belizeans should familiarize themselves with these locations before a disaster strikes in case of a potential evacuation.
What is a shelter?
The restoring or improving of livelihoods aligning with the principles of sustainable development and “build back better”, to avoid or reduce future disaster risk.
What is recovery?
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?
The best disaster supply kits will have food, water, and other supplies to for at least this many hours.
What is 72 hours?
This is key to disaster recovery and include lifelines such as electricity, communications systems and networks, health facilities, shelters, transportation systems, garbage disposal.
What is Critical Infrastructure? (What is critical lifelines is also correct)
Hazards that originate from technological or industrial conditions, dangerous procedures, infrastructure failures or specific human activities. Examples include industrial pollution, nuclear radiation, toxic wastes, dam failures, transport accidents, factory explosions, fires and chemical spills.
What is technological hazards?
Businesses should consider having this type of plan in place to ensure operations continue following a disaster.
What is a Business Continuity Plan (BCP)?
By relocating this village in the South Western part of Belize in 2015, NEMO executed a mitigation project to move people away from a flood prone area to safer, higher grounds.
What is Jordan Village?
A critical set of 'specialized agencies' that have specific responsibilities in serving & protecting people and property in emergency and disaster situations. They include police, fire, BDF etc.
What is Emergency Services? (First Responders or Essential Service Workers are also correct)
The signal that a dangerous situation has ended or the threat level is significantly reduced such that normal activities, with guidance where necessary, can be resumed.
What is an "ALL CLEAR"?
Hazards that has atmospheric, hydrological or oceanographic origin. Examples are hurricanes, floods, including flash floods; drought; heatwaves and coastal storm surges.
What is hydrometeorological hazards?