Preparedness
This is the gold standard mitigation practice during an outbreak.
What is proper hand hygiene?
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 or emergency backpack?
This is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least 35 miles per hour and lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically three hours or more.
What is a blizzard?
These are the guides we have developed for each department to help us conduct drills and respond to real-life events.
What are Emergency/Department Cheat Sheets?
Ensuring all required or suggested immunizations are up to date is one way to mitigate this hazard.
What is a biological threat or pandemic?
If you are unable to evacuate during a tornado, this is the best place to go.
What is the basement or interior room?
This scale developed by Dr. Theodore Fujita, is the most widely used method worldwide for estimating tornado strength and wind speed.
What is the F-scale?
This is the document that we use to identify hazards and the likelihood that they will occur. It is updated annually.
What is the Threat Hazard Assessment Module or THAM?
By doing these three mitigation actions, our computers and networks are best protected from bad actors.
What are practicing password protection, educating team about phishing attempts, installing security software, and/or properly using encryption?
This person takes charge during an emergency that causes us to activate our Incident Command Center.
Who is the Incident Commander?
These functions are those that cannot be deferred during an emergency. These activities must be performed continuously or resumed quickly following a disruption.
What are essential functions?
Use this rule if you see lightning and can't count to 30 before hearing thunder. Stay inside for 30 minutes after hearing the last clap of thunder.
What is the 30/30 Rule?
This is the name of the Southeast section of SD's Emergency Coalition that we belong to.
What is the Sioux Empire Chapter?
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)
These are four ways that we can communicate during an emergency/disaster.
What are phone, vocera, email, eICS, Walkie Talkies, 2-way Emergency Radios?
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)
This level of tornado has winds of 261-318 miles/h and the power to lift strong frame houses off foundations and carry them considerable distances; automobile sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 110 yards; trees are debarked; steel re-inforced concrete structures are badly damaged.
What is an F-5 or "Incredible Tornado"?
This document supports, guides, and ensures our ability to collaborate with local emergency preparedness officials. It outlines the delegation of the Incident Command Structure and our response to natural or man-made emergencies or disasters.
What is the Emergency Operations Plan or Emergency Preparedness Plan?(Both are correct)
Volunteers should never do this during a disaster, otherwise they can overwhelm the responders.
What is self-deploy?
Hospitals and businesses should consider having this type of plan in place to ensure operations continue following a disaster.
What is a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) or a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)?