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Part 2 book “Case studies in disaster response and emergency management” has contents: Disasters from natural sources—other weather, animal, and viral phenomena, man-made disasters—industrial accidents and structural failure, disasters from criminal or terrorist acts—bombings, disasters from criminal or terrorist acts—other terrorist events, and other contents. | Chapter 7 Case Studies: Disasters from Natural Sources— Other Weather, Animal, and Viral Phenomena Great Blizzard, 1888 Stage 1 of the Disaster You are a director of health and human services. It is based on good authority that the northeastern region of the United States is going to have some extremely cold weather. March 11 should be a fairly nice day in most parts of the country; however, you are coiled up in a blanket looking outside your office window as snow is falling at a very alarming rate. The scene is the same in at least three other states and transportation is coming to a standstill (Douglas, 2005). 1. What is your plan of action? As director for health and human services it would be important to determine what groups of people are vulnerable to severe cold. Once these groups have been identified, it is important to gather information on what resources are available and how those resources can be 99 100 ◾ Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management deployed. Motor vehicles are not available and you will have to find some other way to distribute any resources that are needed.* 2. What is your communication plan? Electronic communications are extremely limited at this time. You will need to find some other methods of communicating with the population, municipal and state leaders, other agencies, and first responders. 3. What resources should you mobilize? With a cold weather emergency on the way, supplies to vulnerable populations (., the very young, the very old, and homeless persons) should be distributed by any means possible as fast as possible. This means an administrator will have to know where to locate supplies and get agreements in place with local agencies in order to distribute the resources to the appropriate groups of people considered to be vulnerable to cold weather. In addition, supplies should be stockpiled in the way of food, fuel for heating, heaters, and water for different groups of people that may get
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