Chapter 11 Me Flashcards
Reflects economic and social issues that influence risk
Includes age, gender, income, race and ethnicity, social and cultural information, education, housing
Demographics
- Collect available assessments
- Combine into a meter overview of regional factors
- Most common feature is 100 year flood
Geography
Water, waste, communications, energy, and transportation are all considered
Critical infrastructure systems where a failure would have a significant impact on the community risk profile
Vision 20/20 provides 3 qualitative tools to determine the likelihood and impact of risk
- Categories of risk likelihood
- Risk consequence of impact
- Level of risk
An important concept in developing a CRR plan is identifying?
The acceptable level of risk
What the citizens and government can tolerate and afford
The national fire academy advocates the 5 E’s of prevention.
What are the 5 E’s of prevention and mitigation
- Education intervention
- Enforcement intervention
- Engineering
- Economic incentives
- Emergency response interventions
A process that begins with a risk assessment followed by deliberate plans to prevent or mitigate those risks
CRR
Community risk reduction
What are the 2 types of communications provided to the media?
- Risk communication
- Crisis communication
Real time information, advice, and opinions between experts and people under threat
Risk communication
Covers occurrence that create surprise, present a threat, and require a quick response
Explains specific event; identify likely consequences and outcomes; and provide specific harm reducing information
Crisis communication
NFPA provides a “Get Your Message Out” media primer with 3 steps as follows
Step 1: Build a strong foundation
Step 2: Proactive Outreach
Step 3: Measured Responsiveness
Used to make an official announcement to the news media from the fire department PIO
Press release
— should be dated and typed on department stationary, with the PIO contact information at the top
When using social media outreach, commit to?
25% of the time listening to customers
50% of the time interacting
25% of the time creating new material
Community service organizations focus on those at risk, including
- Children under 6
- Adults over 65
- People with disabilities
- People living in poverty
- People that speak little or no English
The process of _______ begins with identifying and prioritizing local risks and is followed by an integrated and strategic investment of resources to reduce their occurrence and impact.
Community risk reduction CRR
A community is profiled using these elements to describe the community
- Demographic
- Geography
- Building stock
- Public safety response agency
- Community service organization
- Hazards
- Economic factors
- Past loss/event history
- Critical infrastructure systems
The _____ reflects the economic and social issues that significantly influence the identified risk
Community demographic profile
The physical environment includes collection of available assessments and, if possible, assembling this information into a master geographic overview of the regional factors in risk analysis. The most common feature is identifying communities that could be affected by the ____
100 year flood
As in 1 out of 100 probability of something occurring
______ evaluation is an important tool when evaluating a community risk due to natural disasters.
Building stock
- Housing density
- Housing age
- High-density structures
- Overcrowding
In terms of population, those at risk include?
- Children under 6
- Adults over 65
- People with disabilities
- People living in poverty
- People that speak little or no English
Vision 20/20 provides 3 qualitative tools to determine the likelihood and impact of a risk
- Category of risk likelihood
— Rare, unlikely, possible, likely, almost certain - Risk consequence
— Insignificant, minor, moderate, major, catastrophic - Risk level
— Low risk, moderate risk, high risk, extreme risk
A staged event to which you invite the news media to come and hear something important that you have to announce
Press conference
The NFPA provides the following guidelines for the fire officer conducting an interview with the media
- Be prepared
- Stay in control
- Look and act the part
- It is not over until it is over
