Deck 9: Milestones That Structure Emergency Planning: Organizing Tasks for Emergency Planners

Question 1

The planning calendar only includes the time before seasonal threats.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Protective action recommendation selection protocols are hazard specific and require subject matter experts.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Jurisdictions often find it easy to enforce hazard adjustments sanctions.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Damage assessment teams can not be trained from local government departments because of their familiarity of the area.

Question 5

In recovery planning, a recovery committee should created made up of lead agencies.

Question 6

In resource mobilization, participation of other government agencies should be enlisted to identify ways collaboration can achieve everyone's goals.

Question 7

In the continuing hazard phase of planning the following function is performed, except

A) Strategic analysis
B) Program mobilization
C) Hazard definition
D) Program retrofit

Question 8

What defines the fourteen criteria for management programs:

A) FEMA
B) DHS
C) NFPA 1600
D) LEMAs

Question 9

The first task of the strategic analysis in the continuing hazard phase, continue community hazard vulnerability analysis, includes the following, except

A) Present arguments supporting mitigation
B) Communicates vulnerability to leaders
C) Reviews plan for response
D) Supports selecting PAR's

Question 10

Natural disasters produce:

A) Few mental health consequences
B) Many mental health consequences
C) Several cases of post-traumatic stress disorder
D) Widespread panic

Question 11

Dead bodies are a public health threat:

A) Always
B) Only if the body is diseased
C) Only if they are not placed into a morgue immediately
D) Only when they are not refrigerated immediately

Question 12

Identifying specific audience segments is a key step in what?

A) LEMA evaluations
B) Training programs
C) Post-incident critiques
D) Risk communication programs

Question 13

In disasters with Stafford Act claims, what organization provides for victim assistance?

A) FEMA
B) LEMAs
C) SEMAs
D) Charities and non-profits only

Question 14

Conflicting priorities in regards to restoring infrastructure are best solved though:

A) Response decisions made after impact
B) Pre-impact planning
C) Elected officials making the decision
D) Prioritizing the decisions based on citizen complaints

Question 15

The process of detecting and demolishing structures so severely damaged that they pose an immediate threat to citizens and emergency responders is:

A) Emergency demolition
B) Mandatory demolition
C) Risk reduction demolition
D) Risk reduction detection and demolition

Question 16

The third task of the strategic analysis in the continuing hazard phase involves monitoring community perceptions of hazards and hazard ____________________.

Question 17

In operational and resource analysis, to facilitate evaluations of the LEMA it is most desirable to use _____________ evaluators.

Question 18

In operational and resource analysis, training and exercise needs should be reviewed because some may be a condition of federal ____________.

Question 19

In an escalating crisis, lay out criteria that define elevated conditions of ____________.

Question 20

Post-incident critiques of performance cover outcomes and processes followed to find deficiencies in ________________ performance.

Question 21

List and define 4 of the 12 functions that promote a better recovery.

Question 22

What advice would you give to a business that wants to implement cost-effective mitigation measures?