Disaster Response Flashcards
Provide life preservation and basic subsistence needs
Disaster Response
Avoid hazards and mitigate potential impacts
Disaster prevention and mitigation
Establish and strengthen capacities
Disaster preparedness
Restore and improve facilities and living conditions and capacities
Disaster rehabilitation and recovery
The provision of emergency services and public assistance during or immediately after a disaster
Disaster response
Until 3 months after the disaster
Disaster response
6 months after the disaster
Disaster rehabilitation and recovery
Roles and responsibilities in disaster response
- Barangay captain
- BDRRMC
- Families
Kinds of response
- Community response
- Specialized response
- Family and individual response
Community response:
- Evacuation
- Relief delivery operations
Specialized response:
- First aid
- Search and rescue
- Management of the dead and the missing
- Mental health and psychosocial support
Priorities for evacuation
- Communities at risk
- Children
- Senior citizens
- PWDs
- Vulnerable sectors
Aims to ensure the immediate survival of the affected population by providing emergency health services, temporary shelter, food, and non-food items
Relief delivery
Average contents of family food packs for 5 members (2-3 days):
- 6 kilos NFA rice
- 4 pcs canned meat
- 4 pcs canned sardines
- 6 sachets 3-in-1 coffee
Relief distribution process
- Needs assessment
- Planning
- Resource generation
- Purchasing
- Warehousing
- Repacking
- Distribution
- Reporting
The provision of initial care to the injured until professional care arrives
First aid
Initial assessment conscious
- Possible reasons for injury/illness
- Examine from head to toe
- Check for vital signs
Initial assessment for unsconscious
Check for breathing
Water search and rescue steps
Reach, throw and tow
Easiest and most desirable form of water search and rescue; reach out or extend an object to the person in trouble
Reach
If the victim is too far away to reach with anything, use this technique.
Throw and tow
Common floatation devices:
- Life vest
- Ring buoy
- Water container
- Tire interior tube
- Styropore/styrofoam
- Surfboard
- Floating wood/lumber
- Clothes in air-tight plastic inside bag
Reach, throw and tow, but only ____ with proper equipment.
Go
Other search and rescue fields
- Collapsed structure search and rescue
- Urban search and rescue
- Mountain search and rescue
- High angle rescue
- Fire rescue