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1. Disaster Management Flashcards

1
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A danger or risk of an event occuring

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Hazard

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The deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, toxins, or other harmful agents used to cause illness or death in people, animals, or plants

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Bioterrorism

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The malicious attempt to disrupt or destroy the agricultural industry and/or food supply system of a population through the malicious use of plant or animal pathogens to cause devastating dz.

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agroterrorism

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List some reasons we should plan for disasters?

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  1. dec. loss of life/property
  2. inc. response and recovery
  3. Prioritizes needs
  4. Maintains essental functions
  5. improves communication
  6. develops partnerships
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What are the 4 phases of disaster management

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  1. mitigation
  2. prepardness
  3. Response
  4. Recovery
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Attempt to prevent hazards from developing into disasters altoghether

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Mitigation

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Plans and preparations made to save lives and property, and to facilitate response operations

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Preparedness

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Actions taken to provide emergency assistance, save lives, minimize property damage, and speed recovery

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Response

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9
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Actions taken to return to a normal or improved operating condition following a disaster

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Recovery

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What are 6 common companion animal issues during disaster?

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  1. Failure of people to evacuate because of pets
  2. Animal abandonment
  3. Seltering animals
  4. Animal ID
  5. Reuniting displaced animals
  6. adoption
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What does CART stand for and what is it?

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Country Animal Response Team

Intended for use by local government and agencies to take immediate action in providing a means of car to minimize animal suffering int he event of a large scale disaster

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What is SART?

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State Animal Response Team

interagency org. dedicated to preparing, planning, responding, and recovering during animal emergencies

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What are the 4 federal agencies responding to animal disasters.

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  1. Vet. Medical Assistance team (VMAT)
  2. National Vet Response team (NVRT)
  3. National An. Health Emergency REsponse corp. (NAHERC)
  4. U.S Public Health Service
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Opperates under the AMVA, provides operational assistance to state animal health authorities

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Vet. Med. Assistance team

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What are the 3 primary functions of VMAT?

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  1. Early assessment volunteer teams
  2. Basic Treatment Volunteer teams
  3. Training
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Part of the Dept. of health and human servic’s national disaster system, composed of private citizens who have been approved as intermittent federal employees and activated int he event of a disaster

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National Vet Response team

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What are some of the responsibilites of NVRT

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  1. Ass vet. med. needs
  2. Med. tx
  3. Animal Dz surveillance
  4. Zoonotic Dz surveillance
  5. Tech assistance to assure food safetly and water quality
  6. Euth.
18
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Operates uder USDA’s Animal and plant inspection service, established to respond to exotic dz outbreaks and other disasters whicha ffect livestock, poultry, companion animals, and wildlife

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National animal health emergency corp (NAHERC)

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What is the US public health service?

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officers dedicated to PH promotion, PH response, Disease prevention, and PH science

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What are 5 problems with past disasters

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  1. Communication issues
  2. Command and control prob.
  3. No standardized plan
  4. Training
  5. No common opperating plan
21
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What is NRF

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National Response Framework, put on by Dept. of homeland security, establishes a comprehensive, national, all-hazards approach to domestic incident response.

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What is NIMS?

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National incident management system,

homeland security

core set of concepts, principles, and term. for incident command and multiagency coordination

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What is ICS

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Incident command system, Standardized, on-scene, all-hazard, incident management

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What are the 5 management functions of ICS?

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  1. Incident command
  2. Logistics
  3. operations
  4. Planning
  5. Finance and admin.

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