Disasters
True/False: Over the past 50 years, federal disasters have doubled.
What is false? Federally declared disasters have tripled over the past 50 years
This is issued when weather conditions are favorable for the development of severe thunderstorms that could produce tornadoes.
What is a tornado watch?
This order is given to healthcare facilities when a storm is coming and significant potential for power outages and flooding exist.
What is a Medical Evacuation Order?
True/False: The Incident Command System was developed by firefighters.
What is true?
The number of phases in the Emergency Management cycle.
What is 4?
Preparation, Response, Recovery, Mitigation
The deadliest billion-dollar disasters over the past decade, resulting in 3,783 fatalities.
What are hurricanes?
With power outages and increased generator usage, Emergency Departments tend to see an increased # of these exposures.
What are carbon monoxide exposures?
This person gives an evacuation order to different zones at risk from a storm.
Who is the Governor?
This person is responsible for all aspects of an emergency response; including quickly developing incident objectives, managing all incident operations, application of resources as well as responsibility for all persons involved.
Who is the Incident Commander.
An emergency management phase where you prevent future emergencies or minimize their effects.
What is mitigation?
88.5% of all U.S. counties did this between 2013 and 2023.
What is declared a natural disaster?
This was the costliest hurricane to make landfall with damages estimated at $170 billion.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
Officials may call for this during a chemical release or HAZMAT incident.
What is a Shelter in Place order?
HICS
What is Hospital Incident Command System?
A process for identifying the hospital’s highest vulnerabilities to natural and man-made hazards and the direct and indirect effect these hazards may have on the hospital and community.
What is a Hazards Vulnerability Analysis?
The most common disaster in the United States.
What is flooding? Ninety percent of natural disasters within the U.S. involve flooding.
The National Weather Service refers to these storms as “Deceptive Killers” due to the high # of indirect deaths from car accidents and hypothermia.
What are winter storms?
The first, and possibly most difficult, phase of evacuation.
What is the Decision to Evacuate?
The number of section chiefs under the Incident Commander.
What is 4?
True/False: In order for a hospital to receive potential FEMA reimbursement for a response there has to be federal disaster declaration.
What is True?
The rarest disaster in the world.
What is a limnic eruption? These events involve the sudden release of dissolved gases, primarily carbon dioxide, from deep lake waters, potentially suffocating life in the surrounding area.
This many inches of fast-moving water can sweep away a vehicle.
What is twelve (12) inches?
The largest evacuation in history (think globally).
What is Operation Pied Piper? During WWII, over 1.5 million people, mostly children, were evacuated from British cities to rural areas deemed safer from bombing.
The Titles of the Section Chiefs.
What are: Operations, Logistics, Planning and Finance?
This Act provides the legal authority for the federal government to provide assistance to states during declared major disasters and emergencies.
What is the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act?