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Introduction to Disaster: Understanding Emergency Management

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1.  What is emergency management? The managerial function charge with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to threats/hazards and cope with disasters A layman’s term for FEMA Disaster management The Federal Emergency Management Agency

2.  What is a disaster? The time period before a storm A serious disruption(s) to the functioning of a community that exceed its capacity to cope using its own resources Emergency management incidents A man-made caused incident

3.  Shootings and bombings are examples of which type of disaster? Natural Organic Pandemics Man-made

4.  What are the four pillars of continuous improvement? Prepare, respond, recover, mitigate Read, re-read, review, rewrite Update, formulate, discuss, review Discovery, validation, resolution, and evaluation

5.  What is FEMA’s prevention framework called? Preparation Framework 2023 Prevention Nationwide National Prevention Framework Framework for Everyone 2023

6.  What are FEMA’s Five Mission Areas? Respond, recover, prepare, delegate, resume Prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery Delegate, appropriate, deliver, conclude, review Deliberate, protect, respond, control, resume

7.  What is the first goal of FEMA’s Strategic Plan? Lead whole of community in climate resilience Promote and sustain a ready FEMA and prepared nation Instill equity as a foundation of emergency management Deliver quality service to the community

8.  Presence, resource distribution, and scaling down are examples of __________ helping professionals face in post-disaster spaces. Resilience issues Resource issues Moral issues Ethical issues

9.  American Red Cross Disaster Services Team, FEMA’s Certified Emergency Response Team, and national voluntary organizations active in disasters are known to _________ on disaster deployment in the emergency management field. only use trained disaster service professionals only use trained first responders do not use volunteers welcome volunteers

10.  Which of the following is a limitation and future direction in the field of emergency management? Field professionalization External organizations Staffing Human and material resources