All-Hazards Preparedness
You can carry this medication with you to give someone during an opioid-related emergency or overdose.
What is Narcan/naloxone?
This type of weather event is not quite a hurricane, but can still result in dangerous rain, wind, and flooding.
What is a tropical storm?
These are three communication methods that may be used to notify employees of an activation.
What are phone, text, and email?
True or false? Deployment sites can be outside of your domiciled region.
What is true?
LDH represents this Emergency Support Function (ESF).
What is Emergency Support Function (ESF) 8?
This slogan also serves as the name of the website where Louisiana residents can find state-specific preparedness information.
What is "Get a Game Plan"/GETAGAMEPLAN.ORG?
This is the number of categories on the Saffir Simpson hurricane scale.
What is 5?
Derived from the French work meaning "to sort", this process may be performed over the phone during an activation.
What is triage?
Rhyming with "swelter", this deployment site may be for medical special needs or the general population.
What is shelter?
This gas created by generator use is colorless, odorless, and potentially deadly.
What is carbon monoxide?
This medical rescue technique is important to know if somebody is unresponsive and not breathing.
What is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)?
This timeline measures outward from when tropical storm force winds are expected to impact coastal Louisiana.
What is the H-Hour timeline?
This LDH policy outlines employee responsibilities during a disaster.
What is Emergency Preparedness Policy/Policy 65.2?
This is the standard length of a shift at most deployment sites.
What is 12 hours?
These are the four "P"s that require extra care when temperatures reach freezing or below.
What are people, pets, plants, and pipes?
This website for all-hazards preparedness is maintained by the federal government/FEMA.
What is READY.GOV?
This date signals the end of hurricane season.
What is November 30th?
The common name for an emergency preparedness "kit" that goes with you when you are activated.
What is a "go kit"?
Two examples of this deployment site include the Smoothie King Center and the Alario Center.
What is Parish Pickup Points?
This traffic pattern is implemented during an evacuation to move the most people possible out of harm's way.
What is contraflow?
This is how many of gallons of water per person per day you should keep in your home preparedness/Shelter in Place kit.
What is one gallon per person per day?
This year marked the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record, with 28 named hurricanes.
What is 2005?
This site serves as the coordination and control center during activations.
What is the Emergency Operations Center/EOC?
This deployment site is potentially active after a tornado causes damage to buildings and people may be trapped in debris.
What is Search and Rescue Base of Operations (SARBOO)?
Name one of the two partner agencies in Region 1 that are responsible for providing behavioral health support during a disaster.
What is MHSD or JPHSA?