Preparedness
How often should you re-think your emergency kit?
Once a year
What are the four FEMA social media platforms that supports mitigation?
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Smartphone Application
If you are in a trailer or mobile home when a tornado strikes, what is the safest thing to do?
Get out immediately and go to the lowest floor of a sturdy, nearby building or storm shelter
What should you keep one gallon per person per day?
Water
Name this disaster: Changes in landscape such as patterns of storm-water drainage on slopes, land movement, or progressively leaning trees.
Landslide
This program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations.
Citizen Emergency Response Team (CERT) or Citizen Corps
What is one way to mitigate biological threat?
Ensuring all required or suggested immunizations are up to date is one way to mitigate this hazard
Pet owners should familiarize themselves with these locations before a disaster strikes in case of a potential evacuation?
Pet-friendly hotels or shelters
Immediately following a disaster a community can become easily overwhelmed by the amount of generous people who want to help. What is the best way to help?
Donating cash or affiliate with existing non-profit organizations before coming to the disaster area
This natural disaster can be accompanied by other natural hazards, including earthquakes, mudflows and flash floods, rock falls and landslides, acid rain, fire, and (under special conditions) tsunamis
Volcanic eruption
Your family may not be together when a disaster strikes. It is important to write and have this in advance.
Emergency Preparedness Plan or Family Communications Plan
What is the best way to protect windows from hurricanes?
By installing permanent storm shutters or boarding them with plywood
The best disaster supply kits will have food, water, and other supplies for how many hours?
72 hours
What is National Disaster Recovery Framework?
A guide that enables effective recovery support to disaster impacted states, tribes, territorial and local jurisdictions.
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.
Heat wave or extreme heat
This is the FEMA website that had preparedness information for making a plan, building a kit, and staying informed.
How to reduce damage on your home during high wind events?
Install roof straps or clips
True or False: The Incident Command System (ICS) is only applicable to large, complex incidents.
FALSE
What Act gives the authority to allow FEMA to do things during disasters?
Stafford Act
List 3 types of potential disasters
Natural, Technical, and international
This scale, named after the wind engineer and meteorologist who created it, classifies based on their sustained wind speed at the indicated time.
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale
Which General Staff member prepares incident action plans, manages information, and maintains situational awareness for the incident?
Planning Section Chief
Volunteers should never do this after a disaster otherwise they risk overwhelming the responders
Self-deploy
Name this program: This is operated by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and activated during Presidentially-declared disasters. Its mission is to assist in reuniting children separated from their parents or legal guardians in the aftermath of a disaster
National Emergency Child Locator Center (NECLC)
Name the most destructive natural disaster ever
Asteriod/comet impact