Disaster History
This 2005 Category 5 Hurricane caused catastrophic flooding in New Orleans due to levee failure
What is Hurricane Katrina?
FEMA
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency?
This scale measures the intensity of a tornado based on the damage caused.
What is the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale?
This is the recommended number of days that a family should have food and water in a go-bag (AT LEAST!)
What is 3 days?
The slogan to remember for an active shooter event
What is "Run, Hide, Fight"?
This 1979 nuclear accident in Pennsylvania led to new federal regulations and a shift in the planning for nuclear power.
What is Three Mile Island?
What is the National Incident Management System?
This scale measures the qualitative effects of an earthquake at a specific location.
What is the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale?
This slogan is used to remind people not to drive in floodwater.
What is "Turn Around, Don't Drown"?
Before moving to McComsey, this is the Millersville-owned house that the CDRE operated out of.
What is the Lancaster House?
This 1859 solar storm was the most intense in recorded history. It caused telegraph systems to fail, created auroras visible in the Caribbean, and would be devastating if it occurred today.
ESF
What is an Emergency Support Function?
This geological process occurs when water-saturated sediment temporarily loses its strength and integrity during an earthquake, causing it to act like a fluid.
Liquefaction
This National organization radio is essential for receiving emergency alerts when power is out, and cell towers are down.
What is a NOAA Weather Radio?
Under NIMS, this number range is deemed a manageable span of control
What is 3-7?
The "Great Fire" of this city in 1871 led to the first major push for standardized building codes and fire safety
What is the Great Chicago Fire?
THIRA
What is Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment?
What is 58 mph winds, a tornado, or hail at least 1 inch in diameter?
A structured plan to reunite children with their families after an emergency or disaster?
What is a Reunification Plan
What is 2200 Steps?
This 1816 volcano created a massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia, which created the "Year Without a Summer"
RTO
What is a Recovery Time Objective?
This massive burst of solar wind and magnetic fields from the Sun can trigger a geomagnetic storm and destroy high-voltage transformers, leading to outages.
What is a Coronal Mass Ejection?
This directive, signed in March 2011, established a focus on strengthening national security and resilience against disasters. It included the definition/creation of the National Preparedness Goal.
What is Presidential Policy Directive 8 (PPD-8)?
The founder of the Center for Disaster Research & Education?
Who is Henry (Hank) W. Fischer?