Preparedness
This is the FEMA website that has preparedness information for making a plan, building a kit, and staying informed.
A) www.fema.gov
What is www.ready.gov?
How many platforms can FEMA social media, that supports mitigation, can be found on?
A) 4
B) 5
C) 6
What is 5: the FEMA Facebook page, the FEMA Twitter page, the FEMA YouTube page, the FEMA Smartphone Application, and the FEMA Blog.
If you are in this type of structure during a tornado, the safest thing to do is get out immediately and go to the lowest floor of a sturdy, nearby building or a storm shelter.
A) Trailer/Mobile Home
B) Retail Store
C) Stadium
What is a trailer or mobile home?
Basic services such as electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment and telephones may be cut off for days or even a week, or longer. This should be kept in the event this happens.
A) Disaster Supply Kit
B) First Aid Kit
C) Generator
What is disaster supply kit?
This natural disaster appears as a rotating, funnel-shaped cloud that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground with whirling winds that can reach 300 miles per hour.
A) Tornado
B) Cyclone
C) Whirlwind
What is a tornado?
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.
A) Citizen Emergency Response Team (CERT)
B) Disaster Preparedness and Management (DPM)
C) Emergency Management & Tactical Response Operations (EMTRO)
What is the Citizen Emergency Response Team (CERT) program?
Ensuring all required or suggested immunizations are up to date is one way to mitigate this hazard.
A) Environmental Threat
B) Population Threat
C) Biological Threat
What is a biological threat?
If you are unable to evacuate, this is the best place to go.
A) Mobile Home
B) Safe Room
C) Storage Shed
What is a safe room?
You should keep one gallon per person per day of this item.
A) Milk
B) Water
C) Food
What is water?
To prepare for this natural disaster, secure your water heater, refrigerator, furnace, and gas appliances by strapping them to the wall studs and bolting to the floor.
A) Tornado
B) Earthquake
C) Hurricane
What is an earthquake?
Your family may not be together when a disaster strikes. It is important to write and have this in advance.
A) Family Disaster Plan
B) Supplies
C) Emergency Preparedness Plan
What is an Emergency Preparedness Plan?
By doing this mitigation action on houses, windows are best protected from hurricanes.
A) Permanent Storm Shutters
B) Wind Screens
C) Acrylic Windows
What is installing permanent storm shutters?
Pet owners should not do this action when evacuating from their homes.
A) Drop Off at the Dog Pound
B) Taking Their Pets with Them
C) Leave Their Pets Behind
What is leave their pets behind?
Immediately following a disaster, a community can become easily overwhelmed by the amount of generous people who want to help. This is the best way to help.
A) Affiliate with Non-Profit Organization
B) Canned Food
C) Bottled Water
What is affiliate with existing non-profit organizations before coming to the disaster area?
Changes in landscape such as patterns of storm-water drainage on slopes (especially the places where runoff water converges), land movement, or progressively leaning trees are all signs of this natural disaster potentially occurring.
A) Rockfalls
B) Tsunami
C) Landslide
What is a landslide?
This scale classifies hurricanes into five categories based on their sustained wind speed at the indicated time.
A) Saffir-Simpson Scale
B) Richter Scale
C) Beaufort Sclae
What is the Saffir-Simpson Scale?
To reduce damage during high wind events, this should be installed to securely fasten your roof to the frame structure.
A) Wooden Beams
B) Straps/Clips
C) Rope
What is straps or clips?
The best disaster supply kits will have food, water, and other supplies to for at least this many hours.
A) 24 Hours
B) 48 Hours
C) 72 Hours
What is 72 hours?
This guide enables effective recovery support to disaster-impacted States, Tribes, Territorial and local jurisdictions. It provides a flexible structure that enables disaster recovery managers to operate in a unified and collaborative manner.
A) National Disaster Initiative Program
B) National Disaster Recovery Framework
C) National Disaster Leadership Network
What is the National Disaster Recovery Framework?
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.
A) Volcanic Eruption
B) Tectonic Plate Movement
C) Hurricanes
What is a volcanic eruption?
Businesses should consider having this type of plan in place to ensure operations continue following a disaster.
A) Business Recovery Plan (BRP)
B) Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
C) Business Disaster Plan (BDP)
What is a Business Continuity Plan (BCP)?
This program was created by the Congress of the United States in 1968 through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and enables property owners in participating communities to purchase insurance protection from the government against losses from flooding.
A) Federal Flood Insurance Program (FFIP)
B) United States Flood Insurance Program (USFIP)
C) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
What is the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)?
Volunteers should not do this until a need has been identified and the community has requested support.
A) Self Deploy
B) Patrol The Streets
C) Sleep
What is self deploy?
This is operated by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and activated during Presidentially-declared disasters. Its mission is to assist in reunifying children separated from their parents or legal guardians in the aftermath of a disaster.
A) No Child Gets Left Behind (NCGLB)
B) Child Protective Services (CPS)
C) National Emergency Child Locator Center (NECLC)
What is the National Emergency Child Locator Center (NECLC)?
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.
A) Heat Wave/Extreme Heat
B) Hurricane Sandy
C) California Wildfire
What is a heat wave or extreme heat?