Preparedness
This is the FEMA website that has preparedness information for making a plan, building a kit, and staying informed.
What is www.ready.gov?
These are four examples of FEMA social media that supports mitigation.
What is the FEMA Facebook page, the FEMA Twitter page, the FEMA YouTube page, the FEMA Smartphone Application, and the FEMA Blog? (any of the four are correct answers)
Basic services such as electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment and telephones may be cut off for days or even a week, or longer. This item should be kept in the event those services are out.
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.
What is What is a tornado?
This is the code utilized when a disaster overwhelms Good Shepherd.
Code Red
This approach is an integrated approach to emergency preparedness planning that focuses on capacities and capabilities that are critical to preparedness for a full spectrum of emergencies or disasters.
What is an All Hazards Approach?
If you are unable to evacuate during a tornado, this is the best place to go.
What is the lowest floor or basement? (will also accept West Hallway, areas away from windows.)
You should keep one gallon per person per day of this item.
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.
What is What is an earthquake?
Risk Assessment / Planning, Policies/procedures, Communication plans, and Training/Testing all make up this program.
What is an Emergency Preparedness Program.
By doing this mitigation action on houses, windows are best protected from hurricanes.
What is installing permanent storm shutters or boarding them with plywood?.(Both are correct)
Pet Owners should familiarize themselves with these locations before a disaster strikes in case of a potential evacuation.
What is identify 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. This is the best way to help.
What is donating cash or affiliate with existing non-profit organizations before coming to the disaster area? (either answer is correct)
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.
What is a landslide?
All clinical floors on the Allentown Campus are equipped with these.
What are cell phone, flashlights, and walk talkie.
During high wind events, this should be done with all patients and residents.
What is move them away from windows?
The best disaster supply kits will have food, water, and other supplies to for at least this many hours.
What is 96 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.
What is What is the National Disaster Recovery Framework
This natural disaster can be categorized by a 5-point scale which develops in the ocean.
What is a hurricane?
Good Shepherd is part of a coalition called the NorthEast Healthcare Coalition. This coalition regularly participates in these.
What are Functional Exercises.
This program was created by Congress through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and enables property owners in participating communities to purchase insurance against losses from flooding from the government.
What is the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)?
Volunteers should never do this after a disaster, otherwise they can overwhelm the responders.
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 reuniting children separated from their parents or legal guardians in the aftermath of a disaster.
What is What is the National Emergency Child Locator Center (NECLC)?
During this natural hazard individuals should wear loose-fitting, light colored clothes as well as drinking plenty of fluids.
What is a heat wave or extreme heat?