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Lesson 4 - Emergency Management Roles Flashcards

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What are the roles of the LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGER?

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  1. Take inventory of personnel and material resources that would be available in an emergency.
  2. Identify resource deficiencies and work on measures to resolve them.
  3. Develop and carry out public awareness and education programs.
  4. Coordinate the planning process.
  5. Identify and analyze the potential impact of hazards.
  6. Conduct a threat, hazard and risk assessment.
  7. Coordinate a review of all local emergency, and disaster related authorities and recommend amendments when necessary.
  8. Coordinate with partners to ensure they are aware of hazards, participate in mitigation and prevention activities, plan for emergencies using an all-hazards approach, operate effectively in emergency situations, conduct effect recovery operations after a disaster, and are advised and informed about emergency management activities.
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Which partners much the Emergency Manager coordinate with?

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  1. Fire.
  2. Law Enforcement.
  3. Emergency Medical.
  4. Public Works.
  5. Volunteer Organizations.
  6. Private and Non Profit Sector.
  7. Citizens.
  8. Other Stakeholders.
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What is the role of STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT?

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  1. Coordinate with local governments to meet their emergency needs.
  2. Assess available state and federal resources.
  3. Assist local governments in applying for state and federal resources.
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What is the role of the Governor?

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  1. Issue state or emergency declarations based on the damage assessment.
  2. Initiate state response actions.
  3. Activate emergency contingency funds.
  4. Oversee emergency management.
  5. Request, disburse, and monitor federal assistance.
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What is the role of the STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY?

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  1. Carry out statewide emergency management activities.
  2. Help coordinate emergency management activities involving more than one community.
  3. Assist individual communities, when needed.
  4. Provide financial assistance on a supplemental basis.
  5. Identify response and recovery resources to repair critical infrastructure.
  6. Dispatch personnel to the scene to assist in the response and recovery effort.
  7. Coordinate the State Emergency Operations Plan.
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What is the role of the Federal Government?

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  1. Promote the development and sustainment of capabilities across all mission areas.
  2. Provide legislation, executive orders, and regulations that influence all emergency management activities.
  3. Maintain the largest pool of fiscal resources to assist in the delivery of capabilities.
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What is the role of the President of the United States?

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  1. Protect the public.
  2. Make emergency or disaster declaration.
  3. Make a declaration under unique authority in circumstances such as events on federal property.
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What is FEMA’s role?

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  1. Provide technical and financial assistance to state and local governments to upgrade their communications and warning systems.
  2. Operate an emergency information and coordination center.
  3. Provide information to the president concerning matters of national interest to help with disaster declaration decisions.
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What are Emergency Support Functions?

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A National Response Framework component that describes roles and responsibilities of federal departments and agencies for a federal response to an incident.

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What are the components of each Emergency Support Function?

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  1. Primary Agencies. Identified in NRF based on authorities, resources, and capabilities.
  2. Support Agencies. Assigned based on resources and capabilities in a given functional area.
  3. ESF Coordinator.
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What is the role of the Emergency Response Coordinator identified under Emergency Support Functions?

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  1. It is an agency which has ongoing responsibilities across the 5 mission areas for its particular ESF.
  2. Is responsible for on going planning, preparedness and other activities.
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What are the Emergency Management Functional Groups?

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  1. Policy Group.
  2. Coordination Group.
  3. Field Response Group.
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What is the Emergency Management Policy group?

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An informal and flexible grouping of experienced public officials representing state and local governments.

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What is the Emergency Management Coordination group?

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  1. The coordination group performs a staff function by coordinating the types and number of personnel and material resources deployed.
  2. Provides logistical support to field units.
  3. Provides contracting for relief of forces.
  4. Monitors the immediate emergency situation and other threats.
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What is the Emergency management Field Response group?

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The field response group includes the agencies that would be normally on the front line at the scene of an incident.

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What is important to know about federal assistance under the Stafford Act?

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  1. Assistance is only available when the incident exceeds state and local resources.
  2. The governor may then ask the president to declare an emergency or disaster.
  3. Before a declaration request is made, the State Emergency Plan must be activated and all State and local actions must have been taken or initiated.
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What does a disaster declaration request include?

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  1. Information on the extent and nature of the state resources than have been or will be used.
  2. A certification by the governor that state and local governments will assume all applicable non-federal costs required by the Stafford Act.
  3. An estimate of the types and amounts of supplementary federal assistance required.
  4. Designation of the State Coordinating Officer.
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What steps occurs after a disaster declaration request is made?

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  1. FEMA Regional Administrator evaluates the damage and requirements for federal assistance and makes a recommendation to the FEMA Administrator.
  2. The FEMA Administrator then recommends a course of action to the President, acting through the Secretary of Homeland Security.
  3. After the Presidential Declaration, the President appoints a Federal Coordinating Officer to execute Stafford Act authorities.

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