Community Emergency Preparedness and Response Paper Lorraine Gambino NUR 408 June 25‚ 2013 Beth Edwards Community Emergency Preparedness and Response Paper Natural disasters are a part of life and emergency situation occur more frequently than most people believe. After a disaster‚ how well a community can recover will greatly depend on how well they have been prepared in advance. Preemptive organization of resources and the responsiveness to emergencies can mean the difference between a community’s
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A Summary of the National Response Framework Amber Coté Pikes Peak Community College Abstract The purpose of this paper is to become acquainted with the evolution of national incident response over the last twenty years in America; and henceforth‚ gain a better understanding of the current multi-agency/multi-discipline approach to national disasters and emergencies. This summary briefly reviews the history of federal planning documents over
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Severe Weather Storms: Hurricanes and Tornadoes A hurricane is an extremely violent tropical cyclone. The origin of the term Hurricane originates from a Mayan Storm god by the name of Hurakan. He was a Central American idol who believably caused the storms. Years later‚ the hypothesis of someone creating angry storms has been corrected. It is known that these storms are an act of nature by God’s laws at work. The term hurricane just stuck with the weather condition. Another source states
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Wow! Tornadoes and hurricanes are amazing. People think they’re the same just because they are natural disasters. They are actually different in many different ways. I think it’s very cool and awesome that they have different ‚ but sometimes similar‚ unique ways. I love learning about these things. Tornadoes are awesome! While I was at school‚ a weather man came to my school. His name is Spencer Adkins. He told us how tornadoes happen about 800 times in a single year
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How should you prepare for a category five hurricane? Why should you prepare for a category five hurricane? Why do people prepare for a category five hurricane? There are many steps you can take to prepare for a category five hurricane. Some of these steps for a category five hurricane are preparing your home‚ if given a hurricane warning‚ plan for evacuation‚ let friends and family know your plans if needed to reach you‚ and or join a text or email alert system for your community. There are also
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When describing a hurricane there are parts that cannot be left out‚ it’s important to know how these storms start. For a hurricane to start you have to have some type of warm water source and winds that are blowing in the same direction that the hurricane is going‚ after the main ingredients comes the transformation of the rain clouds and wind. The transformation‚ is the change into a tropical disturbance‚ after more wind and more clouds building comes the transformation into a depression‚ the depression
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Tornadoes and hurricanes are both natural disasters that claim many lives each year‚ although one starts in the water and one starts in the air. They are both devastating forces of nature causing tremendous amounts of damage. Many people do not know the differences between a tornado and a hurricane‚ but rather he similarities of the two. Although they both cause great amounts of destruction‚ they do in completely different ways. The one main difference between a hurricane and tornado is how and
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Case – 1 - A perfect response to an Imperfect storm Twelve days. That’s how long it took for Mississippi power to restore electric power to the heavily damaged areas of southern Mississippi after hurricane Katrina slammed into the Mississippi gulf coast on august 29‚ 2005‚ with 145-mph winds and pounding rain. That’s remarkable‚ given the devastation that news photos and television newscasts so graphically displayed. It’s something that even the federal and state governments could not accomplish
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the body systems do in response to becoming active. How we physiologically change from being at rest to being active. Criteria reference To achieve the criteria the evidence must show that the learner is able to Task No Evidence P1 Investigate the initial responses of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems to exercise 2-3 AB Document P2 Describe the initial responses of the neuromuscular and energy systems to exercise 4-5 M1 Explain the initial responses of the cardiovascular
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Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work‚ in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work. Although literary theory has long paid some attention to the reader’s role in creating the meaning and experience of a literary work‚ modern reader-response criticism began in the 1960s and ’70s‚ particularly in America and Germany‚ in
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