NIMS and Charleston Warehouse Fire June 18, 2007 witnessed the death of nine heroic firefighters in a conflagration at the site of a furniture warehouse in Charleston, South Carolina. The nine fatalities were "the worst death toll for firefighters since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks" (Fox News.com. June 19, 2011 P. 2). Perhaps more tragic then the loss of these nine courageous firefighters is that according to investigations undertaken by The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); the City of Charleston Fire Department did not follow national incident management protocols or standard operating procedures in place to coordinate and facilitate effective situational action. The question of whether adherence to these standards would have affected the outcome of the tragedy is purely hypothetical; however, more crucial is the matter of whether an individual entity can adapt to a national framework amidst a crisis situation? Unequivocally,...
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US Disaster Preparation and Lack of with Regards to the Hurricanes and US Administration Introduction The health policy relating to U.S. disaster preparation or lack thereof with respect to hurricanes is one that must include a better system of communication between the U.S. disaster response teams and the hospitals in the affected regions. As Hurricane Katrina showed, the U.S. was not prepared to handle the level of response needed in the wake
A lack of local understanding by FEMA and & #8230;. Caused a clear inability for these agencies to exercise their logistics plan during such a catastrophic event. The first clear weakness was experienced by FEMA, the national organization appointed to deal with supplementing local relief efforts and providing extended services to those in need in an event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack. FEMA is supposed to work as
The Aurora theater shooting incident is the largest shooting incident in the history of the U.S. in terms of the number of casualties. Perpetrated by one James Eagan Holmes, the 20th July 2017 incident left 12 people dead and 58 people critically injured. Overall, response to the incident was commendable, with the police and fire personnel arriving within five minutes after the shooting. The Aurora Police Department, the Aurora Fire
Air traffic has continued to increase and it now constitutes a considerable proportion of the travelling public. The amount of long-hour flights has increased significantly. Based on the International Civil Aviation authority, air traffic can be anticipated to double amid till 2020. Airline travel, especially over longer distances, makes air travelers vulnerable to numerous facets that will impact their health and well-being. Particularly, the speed with which influenza spreads and
Katrina The problem with the response to Hurricane Katrina was not that a National Response Plan (NPR) was not in place or that a National Incident Management System (NIMS) did not exist. It was that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had been in decline for years, was suffering from significant turnover among top leaders, and the individuals who were in charge lacked the appropriate leadership experience and knowledge to oversee
Global Terrorism Right and left wing extremism, which are both forms of domestic or home-grown terrorism, have a rather long history in the U.S. Generally motivated by Marxist and communist ideologies, left wing extremism emerged as early as the late 19th century (White, 2016). Nonetheless, left wing extremism in the U.S. became more prominent in the 1960s and 1970s, with Weather Underground, Black Panthers, and Students for Democratic Society being the
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