Chapter 1
Name the four phases of emergency management
What is Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, & Recovery?
When does a disaster become a disaster?
When your needs outweigh your resources
Name an impediment to mitigation.
What is denial, political will, costs/lack of funding?
This type of exercise is usually employed to validate a specific function or capability in a single organization or agency.
What is a drill?
Preparedness _______ the occurrence of an event while mitigation attempts to ________ the event.
What is assumes and prevent?
This Act was the greatest federal reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense.
What is The Homeland Security Act of 2002?
The most frequent and widespread natural disaster in many countries around the world.
What is Floods?
Provide 3 examples of structural controls.
What is levees, seawalls, bulkheads, breakwaters?
What component of the EOP contains the most comprehensive information about the community & its risks?
What is the Base Plan?
Which phase of emergency management is more cost-effective?
What is mitigation?
Which FEMA director was the first to have prior EM experience?
Who is James Lee Witt?
A source of danger that may or may not lead to an emergency or disaster.
What is hazard?
Building codes, architecture and design criteria are examples of what type of mitigation strategy?
What is design and construction applications?
Which step in the preparedness cycle often begins with a hazards risk assessment?
What is Planning?
Which hurricane earned a nickname and was retired from the Hurricane List?
Billion Dollar Betsy
This Act allowed the US Army Corps of Engineers to build flood-control projects.
What is the Flood Control Act of 1936
The likelihood of a hazard leading to an actual disaster event and the consequences of that event should it occur.
What is risk?
Which mitigation program is the largest source of funding for state and local mitigation activities?
What is The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program?
The process of which businesses or organizations plan on how they will continue to operate during a disaster
What is Business Continuity Planning?
What is the Risk Matrix?
Executive Order 12127 established....
What is FEMA?
The process by which individuals, communities, and countries deal with the hazards they face?
What is hazards risk management?
The year that began the law that if a community did not join the NFIP they were only eligible for disaster assistance 1 time.
What is 1993?
Name the 3 sections of an EOP
What is the Base Plan, Functional Annexes and Hazard/Situational Annexes
The first piece of national disaster legislation to ever be passed by a United States Congress.
What is the Act of 1803?