Chapter 4 - Community relations and risk reduction

Question 1

Community risk reduction (CRR)

Answer 1

is a process to identify and prioritize local risk, followed by the integrated and strategic investiment of resources to reduce their occurance and imapct.

Question 2

6 steps in a CRR

Answer 2

1. Identify Risk
2. Prioritize risk
3. Develop strategies and tactics to mitigate risk
4. Prepare the CRR plan
5. Impliment CRR plan
6. Monitor, evaluate, and modify the plan.

Question 3

This team was first delevloped by the LAFD in 1985 and its goal is to provide basic training to loacl community residents that would allow them to function effectively during the first few hours of a catastrophic event

Answer 3

Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)