Preparedness
Mitigation
Response
Recovery
Name that Natural Disaster
100
This is the FEMA website that has preparedness information for making a plan, building a kit, and staying informed.
100

This is the gold standard mitigation practice during an outbreak.

What is proper hand hygiene?

100
If you are in this type of structure during a tornado, the safest thing to do is get out immediately and go to the lowest floor of a sturdy, nearby building or a storm shelter.
What is a trailer or mobile home?
100

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 or emergency backpack?

100

This is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least 35 miles per hour and lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically three hours or more.

What is a blizzard?

200

These are the guides we have developed for each department to help us conduct drills and respond to real-life events.

What are Emergency/Department Cheat Sheets?

200

Ensuring all required or suggested immunizations are up to date is one way to mitigate this hazard.

What is a biological threat or pandemic?

200

If you are unable to evacuate during a tornado, this is the best place to go.

What is the basement or interior room?

200
You should keep one gallon per person per day of this item.
What is water?
200

This scale developed by Dr. Theodore Fujita, is the most widely used method worldwide for estimating tornado strength and wind speed.  

What is the F-scale?

300

This is the document that we use to identify hazards and the likelihood that they will occur. It is updated annually.

What is the Threat Hazard Assessment Module or THAM?

300

By doing these three mitigation actions, our computers and networks are best protected from bad actors.

What are practicing password protection, educating team about phishing attempts, installing security software, and/or properly using encryption?

300

This person takes charge during an emergency that causes us to activate our Incident Command Center.

Who is the Incident Commander?

300

These functions are those that cannot be deferred during an emergency. These activities must be performed continuously or resumed quickly following a disruption.

What are essential functions?

300

Use this rule if you see lightning and can't count to 30 before hearing thunder. Stay inside for 30 minutes after hearing the last clap of thunder. 

What is the 30/30 Rule?

400

This is the name of the Southeast section of SD's Emergency Coalition that we belong to.

What is the Sioux Empire Chapter?

400

These are four examples of FEMA social media that supports mitigation.

What is the FEMA Facebook page, the FEMA Twitter page, the FEMA YouTube page, the FEMA Smartphone Application, and the FEMA Blog? (any of the four are correct answers)

400

These are four ways that we can communicate during an emergency/disaster.

What are phone, vocera, email, eICS, Walkie Talkies, 2-way Emergency Radios?

400

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)

400

This level of tornado has winds of 261-318 miles/h and the power to lift strong frame houses off foundations and carry them considerable distances; automobile sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 110 yards; trees are debarked; steel re-inforced concrete structures are  badly damaged. 

What is an F-5 or "Incredible Tornado"?

500

This document supports, guides, and ensures our ability to collaborate with local emergency preparedness officials. It outlines the delegation of the Incident Command Structure and our response to natural or man-made emergencies or disasters.

What is the Emergency Operations Plan or Emergency Preparedness Plan?(Both are correct)

500
This program was created by Congress through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and enables property owners in participating communities to purchase insurance against losses from flooding from the government.
What is the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)?
500

Volunteers should never do this during a disaster, otherwise they can overwhelm the responders.

What is self-deploy?

500

Hospitals and businesses should consider having this type of plan in place to ensure operations continue following a disaster.

What is a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) or a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)?

500
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 What is a heat wave or extreme heat?
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