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This fast-spinning, funnel-shaped storm can touch down in minutes and is a top severe weather threat in North Texas.
What is a tornado?
This elected official is responsible for declaring a local disaster.
Who is the Mayor?
This phase focuses on actions taken before a disaster to reduce risk and damage.
What is Mitigation?
This person is in charge at the scene of an emergency and is responsible for coordinating all response activities.
Who is the Incident Commander?
This national framework guides all levels of government, private sector, and NGOs in disaster response.
What is NIMS?
This springtime threat turns cars into insurance claims and roofs into patchwork projects.
What is hail?
This document outlines how a city responds to emergencies and disasters.
What is the Emergency Operations Plan?
This phase includes planning, training, and exercises done ahead of an incident.
What is Preparedness?
When multiple agencies share leadership and make decisions together during an incident, this structure is used.
What is Unified Command?
The COOP plan ensures that essential town services continue even if facilities or staff are disrupted.
What is Continuity of Operations Plan?
This seasonal threat turns creeks into rivers and streets into lakes almost overnight.
What is flooding or flash flooding?
This facility is activated to coordinate response during a disaster.
What is the emergency operations center?
This phase kicks in once a disaster hits, focusing on saving lives, protecting property, and stabilizing the situation.
What is Response?
This term describes the official hierarchy that shows who reports to whom during an emergency.
What is the Chain of Command?
The DMP outlines how debris will be removed after a disaster to restore normal operations.
What is the Debris Removal Plan?
This 2021 winter storm showed North Texans that extreme cold can disrupt power, water, and everyday life.
What is Winter Storm URI?
This state level organization helps cities coordinate during large disasters.
Who is the Texas Division of Emergency Management or TDEM?
This phase focuses on restoring services, rebuilding, and helping the community return to normal.
What is Recovery?
This document, also called the IAP, outlines objectives, resources, and tasks for a specific response period.
What is the Incident Action Plan?
This plan ensures that key government officials can continue making decisions and maintaining authority during a major disaster or emergency.
What is Continuity of Goverment?
This is the zone where a small spark in the woods can quickly become a big problem for houses.
What is the Wildland-Urban Interface?
Generally, not considered a first responder, this federal agency may provide assistance after a major disaster.
Who is FEMA?
You can plan, respond, and recover, but skip this and everyone will still be asking “What’s going on?”
What is communication?
This concept limits the number of people one supervisor can effectively manage during an incident.
What is the Span of Control?
ICS is a standardized way for single or multiple agencies to communicate and coordinate during a disaster.
What is the Incident Command System?