What was the outcome of your actions

Reference no: EM133507575

Assignment

Part 1: 450 words

Scenario: The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the following areas: Carol County, Bobsville, and surrounding areas until 2100. "Atmospheric Conditions are favorable for the development of severe thunderstorms (i.e. - producing hail at least 1" in diameter and/or 50 knots (58 MPH) or greater wind speeds." "Please prepare for the storms and any subsequent watches or warnings that will be issued."

A. What do you do? (Role Specific)
B. What role did you play?
C. What actions did you initiate (provide a minimum of 3)?
D. Were there any obstacles presented?
E. What was the outcome of your actions?
F. How does this contribute to the overall preparedness/response effort?

Review the YouTube video "Damon's 5 p.m. severe weather forecast" on a severe thunderstorm warning.

Examples Below of Assignment

A. What role did you play? Emergency Manager

B. What do you do? I would activate the COOP. this way we have the leaders of different divisions of the city and county in one place to discuss what we need to do and potentially activate the Emergency Operations Plans for the cities and the county.

C. What actions did you initiate (provide a minimum of 3)? First, I would make notifications to the heads of all municipal and county departments to advise them of what is happening. Secondly, I would suggest cease all non-emergency operations. I would advise that schools should be ready for an early dismissal should it come to that; I would advise the mayor and county manager that all non-essential city and county employees should be prepared to leave work early if the watch is upgraded. I would contact all first responder agencies to prepare for the possible severe weather, just in case. I would contact the utility companies as well, to make sure they were prepared for the worst. Thirdly, I would establish the shelters and get them opened and ready to receive city and county residents who have no place safe to go to. I would also ensure the watch has been issued and is being announced via radio and tv, like it should be.

D. Were there any obstacles presented? As far as a Thunderstorm watch is concerned, I do not see any potential issues at this point. We are waiting to see what develops out of the Watch or if it is upgraded.

E. What was the outcome of your actions? The outcome is that the city and county departments are aware of the thunderstorm watch and are ready to cease all nonemergent operations and allow all non-essential personnel to leave if the watch is upgraded, since they are ready for that scenario.

F. How does this contribute to the overall preparedness/response effort? This would contribute to the preparedness/response effort because each department in the cities and county would already be in the prepared mode. So, those at work or at home would already be anticipating an upgraded to a warning or possible emergency, therefore, helping in the response area, because they have already activated their EOP's and are ready.

Part 2: 300 words

A. Explain the difference between incident command and unified command.

B. Research the internet and find an article, video or webpage detailing an emergency incident that used a unified command.

C. Post the link to the article, video or webpage.

D. Was the command structure effective for this incident? If yes, describe why. If no, what could have been done better?

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