A 20 page paper discussing issues surrounding emergency response as it relates to disaster management. The paper discusses emergency response resulting from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but it also discusses events such as Hurricane Fran in 1996, centering on the coast of North Carolina where the category 3 storm made landfall. The key to effective emergency response - excluding the training that can be seen as being a constant value – lies in the quality of communication between diverse teams and agencies responding to the event that has generated a crisis. The purpose here is to address two primary questions: “Are emergency responders equipped to communicate with others outside of their departments in time of crisis? [and] What are strategies to improve communications?” The paper concludes that emergency response in urban areas is highly effective, but that the same efforts in rural areas can be hindered by communication deficiencies. Bibliography lists 11 sources. A companion 16-slide Power Point presentation is available.
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in emergency situations find immeasurable comfort in looking up to see the presence of police, fire, medical and other highly trained individuals willing to risk their personal safety to come
to the aid of others in times of crisis. Any disaster, whether natural or something on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, creates a need
for closely choreographed response from emergency response teams. The emergency response needs of disasters contained in a specific geographic location may be easier to define at the outset, but
in the end can involve nearly as many diverse teams and organizations as can a weather-related disaster that spans hundreds of miles. The
key to effective emergency response - excluding the training that can be seen as being a constant value - lies in the quality of communication between diverse teams and agencies
responding to the event that has generated a crisis. The purpose here is to address two primary questions: "Are emergency responders equipped to communicate with others outside of
their departments in time of crisis? [and] What are strategies to improve communications?" Literature Review Prior to September 11, 2001, terrorism in the
minds of many - if not most - Americans was a part of the ongoing feud between religious factions in the mideast that occasionally spilled over into other parts of
the world. "Other parts of the world" did not include the United States. All of that changed with the attacks on the
World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the failed attempt on the White House, of course. The loss of lives in the World Trade Center alone were enormous, but still
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