Deck 30: Emergency Preparedness

Question 1

Which of the following turned out to be the deadliest hurricane since 1928 and the costliest natural disaster on record in the United States?

A) Hurricane Katrina
B) Hurricane Camille
C) Hurricane Andrew
D) Hurricane Ivan

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What hurricane made landfall 26 days after Hurricane Katrina near the Texas-Louisiana border, thus, interfering with hurricane response activities in New Orleans and forcing the evacuations of coastal regions of Louisiana and Texas?

A) Hurricane Rita
B) Hurricane Camille
C) Hurricane Andrew
D) Hurricane Ivan

Answer 2

A

Question 3

At the time of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, which of the following was a weaker agency than it had been during the Clinton administration when it was a cabinet-level agency with a professional disaster-relief professional as a director?

A) U.S. National Guard
B) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
C) Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
D) Department of Health and Human Services

Answer 3

B

Question 4

An act of bioterrorism would be expected to mimic a natural disease outbreak and demand the same public health response that a natural epidemic would require.

Question 5

The damage of various types caused by a disaster is, by definition, far beyond the normal scale.

Question 6

Building collapses and hazardous material releases are examples of human-made and technological disasters.

Question 7

A town situated below an aging dam should have flooding and related drills as part of emergency preparedness.

Question 8

Bioterrorism requires a very different kind of preparedness strategy than the response needed for dramatic disasters such as a hurricane or the attack on and collapse of the World Trade Center towers.

Question 9

When West Nile virus first appeared in 1999 in New York City, bioterrorism was never considered as a possible explanation for its origin.

Question 10

It is believed that Asian flu may lead to the first flu pandemic in decades.

Question 11

If you were in charge of the response to the next pandemic, one of the main resources to which you should turn is the Strategic National Stockpile.

Question 12

The ______________________ puts a single person, who has responsibility for managing and coordinating the response, in charge at the scene.

Question 13

Since 2002, the __________________________ has invested more than $9 billion in state, local, tribal, and territorial public health departments to upgrade their ability to respond to a range of public health threats.

Question 14

whats the agency to the appropriate description.
-1965

Question 15

whats the agency to the appropriate description.
-1969

Question 16

whats the agency to the appropriate description.
-1992

Question 17

whats the agency to the appropriate description.
-2004

Question 18

whats the agency to the appropriate description.
-Should be delivered, usually by the mass media, in a manner that will prompt appropriate action by the population

Question 19

whats the agency to the appropriate description.
-A method for sorting survivors by severity of their injury and need for treatment, should be established at the scene by trained medical personnel

Question 20

whats the agency to the appropriate description.
-Should be coordinated so that casualties are entered into the emergency medical services system and the healthcare system

Question 21

whats the agency to the appropriate description.
-Should be used to warn the public about health risks after the disaster as an effective public health measure

Question 22

A transportation accident that causes a release of radioactive materials would be classified as which of the following?

A) Predictable natural disaster
B) Unpredictable natural disaster
C) Technological disaster
D) Act of terrorism

Question 23

Which agency was accused of covering up the environmental risk following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center?

A) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
B) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
C) Office of Emergency Management
D) New York City Department of Health

Question 24

Under President Bush, which agency was incorporated into the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where the focus was on terrorism?

A) U.S. National Guard
B) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA}
C) Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
D) Department of Health and Human Services

Question 25

Most terrorist events fall into the category of technological disasters.

Question 26

An unambiguous message to evacuate New Orleans in response to Hurricane Katrina did not come until too close to the time the hurricane struck for it to be acted on by the most vulnerable of the population.

Question 27

In the event of an emergency, federal personnel can deliver supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile anywhere in the United States within 12 hours.

Question 28

Just as the body has redundancy with two kidneys, two lungs, etc., so too emergency responses need to have redundancy for communications, power, etc.

Question 29

Both in terrorist attacks and natural disasters, evacuation plans will probably be critical.

Question 30

The Incident Command System involves a committee of 3 persons from different emergency services coordinating a response.

Question 31

Electric and gas companies probably are not needed in an emergency response.

Question 32

The National Incident Management System has been created by the Army to help standardize emergency preparations.

Question 33

Because there was concern the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center might have included biological agents, the ________________________ sent officers to monitor hospital emergency rooms for patients with unusual symptoms.

Question 34

FEMA had supplied trailers for people whose homes had been destroy during Hurricane Katrina and later it became apparent that the air in these trailers was contaminated with unhealthy levels of ____________________.

Question 35

Whats the appropriate description of the following?
-Puts a single person, who has the responsibility for managing and coordinating the response, in charge at the scene

Question 36

Whats the appropriate description of the following?
-Standardizes the organizational structures, processes, and procedures that communities should employ in planning for an emergency

Question 37

Whats the appropriate description of the following?
-Includes medical supplies, antibiotics, vaccines, and antidotes for chemical agents

Question 38

Whats the appropriate description of the following?
-Began directing activities in response to the World Trade Center attacks and ambulances came from all over the city and hospitals in all five boroughs prepared to receive large numbers of casualties

Question 39

Whats the appropriate description of the following?
-Developed by the CDC in response to the 2001 anthrax attacks

Question 40

Whats the appropriate description of the following?
-Has been developing technological methods of detecting biological and chemical attacks in the hope of recognizing an attack faster.

Question 41

Whats the appropriate description of the following?
-The most dreaded of the possible bioterrorism agents

Question 42

Whats the appropriate description of the following?
-Since the emergence in Asia in the 1990, there has been concern about the possibility of it turning into a pandemic