This category Hurricane may have sustained winds of 74-95 mph and cause minimal damage.
What is a Category 1 Hurricane?
100
Most people refer to this government agency by its acronym FEMA.
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency?
100
Heat, fuel and oxygen are need for this to take place.
What are the three elements required for a fire to burn?
100
This plan includes every area of your home or workplace and considers the needs of children and individuals with disabilities.
What is an escape or evacuation plan?
100
California has the most earthquakes in the country.
What is a myth?
Alaska registers the most earthquakes in a given year.
200
This act of nature is the result of the sudden slipping or movement of a portion of the Earth's crust or plates, caused by a sudden release of stresses.
What is an Earthquake?
200
CERT is the acronym used for this training offered by most community fire departments.
What is Community Emergency Response Team?
200
This piece of equipment will be typed as one of these:
Water,
Dry Chemical,
Carbon Dioxide,
Specialized
What is a fire extinguisher?
200
You can use plastic soft drink bottles for this.
What is storing water.
200
Beer and alcoholic beverages are best to satisfy thirst in extreme heat.
What is a myth?
They actually cause additional dehydration.
300
These are usually associated with hurricanes and are most common in the right-front quadrant of the storm.
What is a tornado?
300
It is important for everyone to receive WEAs.
What is Wireless Emergency Alert?
300
If you PASS when using a fire extinguisher, you are going to do this.
What is pull, aim, squeeze, sweep?
300
You should check the items in your disaster kit biannually for this.
What is expiration dates?
300
Do not seek shelter under highway overpasses or under bridges if caught in the open during a tornado.
What is Fact?
If possible, take shelter in a sturdy building or lie flat on the ground in the lowest area found.
400
This weather event produces hail at least three-quarters of an inch in diameter and has winds of 58 miles per hour or greater.
What is a severe thunderstorm?
400
The NWS keeps us informed of what's happening in teh atmosphere.
What is National Weather Service?
400
You should do this with the back of your hand if you are in a building fire and looking for a useable exit.
What is feel closed doors to see if they are hot?
400
It would be good to have these if there was broken glass and debris in the area.
What is a pair of sturdy boots?
400
A sunstroke is not life-threatening.
What is a myth?
The body temperature can rise so high that brain damage and death may result if the body is not cooled quickly.
500
You are in danger of this if you hear thunder.
What is lightning?
500
The OEM is called into action whenever there is a disaster or emergency in the community.
What is the Office of Emergency Management?
500
You can do this to help contain a buidling fire where there are multiple rooms.
What is keep doors closed?
500
This is what you do during an earthquake.
What is drop, cover, hold?
500
Once the eye of a hurricane passes the danger has passed.
What is a myth?
During the "eye", there are very few clouds but it is important to remember that the storm is not over.