Author: Emergency Management Task Force (Sugarland, Tex.)
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Category : Emergency management
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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Author: United States. President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. Emergency Preparedness and Response Task Force
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Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Bud Force
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 160344288X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Trained for ground, water, and air missions throughout Texas and the nation, Texas Task Force 1 serves as the state’s primary search and rescue team and as one of twenty-eight federal teams in the national urban search and rescue system. Founded in 1997, this elite team has been dispatched for state and national emergencies, probing the devastation at Ground Zero and saving lives on the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Texas Task Force 1’s more than four hundred highly trained members come from sixty organizations throughout Texas and include firefighters, canine handlers, medical specialists and doctors, heavy equipment operators, structural engineers, and others. Photographer Bud Force gives us an intimate picture of Texas Task Force 1 at work as he follows the team on their major deployments and documents their specialized equipment and training, including time spent at the unique facility known as Disaster City. The result is a lively mix of history, interviews, and photographs that paints a fascinating portrait of these courageous people—and their canine partners—who place themselves in danger in order to save others. “There’s a feeling in the room when I walk in and I see the faces of the other responders I work with. My stress level drops because I know that whatever happens, we’ll figure it out and do what we need to do to get the job done. I know that because I know the people in that room can do it.”--Susann Brown, Responder “The principle of helping others is as fundamental to the search and rescue members I know as is breathing.”--Matthew Minson, Responder

Author: United States. President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. Emergency Preparedness and Response Task Force
Publisher:
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Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Task Force for Emergency Preparedness
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 95

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Author: New Zealand. Emergency Services Review Task Force
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ISBN: 9780478092110
Category : Emergency management
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Florida. Legislature. House of Representatives. Task Force on Emergency Preparedness
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Category : Emergency management
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 31

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Author: U. S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781484168882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies regardless of service delivery model have sought guidance on how to better integrate their emergency preparedness and response activities into similar processes occurring at the local, regional, State, tribal, and Federal levels. This primary purpose of this project is to begin the process of providing that guidance as it relates to mass care incident deployment.

Author: Fema
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537588797
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Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Points of Distribution . Points of Distribution are centralized locations where the public picks up life sustaining commodities following a disaster or emergency . Commodities usually include shelf stable food and water What are Points of Distribution or PODs? During a disaster, one method of issuing supplies may not be enough. A Local Emergency Management Agency (LEMA) could use other distribution systems or use all of them at once. All three complement each other and provide expanded distribution coverage. For this Guide, we will focus on Points of Distribution or PODs. PODs can accommodate vehicle traffic (drive-thru), pedestrian traffic (walk thru), and mass transit traffic (bus or rail). Each person or vehicle receives a set amount of supplies. The recommended amount is for each person/vehicle to receive enough for a household of three. The amount of supplies provided will differ depending on the type of transportation used. For instance, more supplies are provided to someone in a car than to a pedestrian who must hand carry items."