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National Response Framework
Acronyms
FEMA
Earthquakes
Disasters
100
This course entitled Introduction to Incident Command System is also known as.
What is ICS 100?
100
EOC
What is Emergency Operations Center?
100
Utah is in this FEMA Region.
What is Region 8?
100
This fault line runs 240 miles in Utah.
What is the Wasatch Fault?
100
This superstorm recently swept the east coast.
What is Superstorm Sandy?
200
ESF #6
What is Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and Human Services?
200
AARP
Who is the American Association of Retired People?
200
This website has been established to help the public prepare for disasters by FEMA.
What is ready.gov?
200
This scale is one of a number of ways that have been developed to assign a single number to quantify the energy contained in an earthquake.
What is the Richter magnitude scale?
200
Utah’s most recent Federal Disaster Declaration was on November 3rd, 2012 for this type of disaster.
What is Storm and flooding?
300
The National Response Framework was renamed from this name to better align the document with its intent and to encourage the continued development and refinement of detailed, robust all-hazards emergency operations plans.
What is the National Response Plan?
300
RACES
What is Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services?
300
W. Craig Fugate began serving in this position of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in May 2009.
What is Administrator?
300
bereadyutah.gov tells us to do these 3 simple steps during an earthquake.
What are Duck, Cover, and Hold?
300
This type of disaster occurs in all U.S. states and territories and can be caused by a variety of factors including earthquakes, storms, volcanic eruptions, fire and by human modification of land.
What is a Landslide?
400
This act signed into law on November 23, 1988; amended the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-288). The Act constitutes the statutory authority for most Federal disaster response activities especially as they pertain to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and FEMA programs.
What is the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act?
400
START
What is Simply Triage and Rapid Treatment?
400
These grants are awarded to fire departments to enhance their ability to protect the public and fire service personnel from fire and related hazards.
What is the Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG)?
400
The largest recorded earthquake in the United States was a magnitude 9.2 in this state on Good Friday, March 28, 1964.
What is Alaska?
400
This organization responded to 113 large responses in 42 states in 2012.
Who is the American Red Cross?
500
By Federal law and by Presidential directive, this person is the principal Federal official responsible for coordination of all domestic incidents requiring multiagency Federal response.
Who is the Secretary of Homeland Security?
500
HAZWOPER
What is Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response?
500
Under this President the Federal Emergency Management Agency was established as an independent agency in his Executive Order 12127.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
500
It is thought that more damage was done by this disaster after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake than by the earthquake itself.
What is fire?
500
These three emergency management professionals responded to Hurricane Sandy as part of EMAC.
Who is Mike Stever, Shelia Curits, and Jo Anna Larsen?