Not to sound unsupportive of the help we are providing to Haiti i just personally do not remember a telethon for Hurricane Katrina on all large television stations. Why wasn’t there more support for our own country when a natural disaster hit.

Well I remember a telethon for the hurricane Katrina and a lot of help coming in. But it is true that it seems as though americans tend to give more to foreign countries in need than to their own.

To Hard - You are so misinformed it ain’t even funny. Nobody helped you on 9/11 and during hurricane Katrina? Many many countries sent aid during hurricane Katrina even though Bush REFUSED most of it. And if you think that your allies (including Canada which is my country) didn’t help you on 9/11 you are clearly blinded by the truth! Look at all your allies who are fighting and DIEING for YOU in Afghanistan for god’s sake! What an ungrateful person you are!!

More specifically what do they do to prepare, respond to, recover from, and mitigate and prevent emergency situations in the community?

Different positions in different jurisdictions have different responsibilities for emergency management. Emergency Management is all about reducing the impact of disasters on communities. It’s a holistic approach that isn’t just about responding to an emergency.

One key concept of emergency management is PPRR (prevention, preparedness, response and recovery) which describes a spectrum of activities:

Prevention/Mitigation
This is about assessing and reducing disaster risks. Activities include researching natural and ‘man-made’ disasters, constructing physical mitigation works (such as levees and firebreaks), establishing warning systems, land use planning (eg. stopping people from building on floodplains) and building codes (eg. mandating fire-proof building materials).

Preparedness
This is about getting the emergency services and the community ready for disasters. Activities include preparing emergency plans, training first responders, educating the community on how to prepare and what to do in a disaster.

Response
This includes actually responding to a disaster and ensuring that the emergency services have the right resources (equipment and people) to do their job. Emergency management professionals aren’t usually in charge of responding to a disaster, but act as an executive officer, providing expert advice to someone with the decision making authority

Recovery
This is about getting a community that has been impacted by a disaster ‘back on its feet’. Activities include, collecting and distributing donations and goods, distributing government relief payments, assisting with reconstruction tasks and much more.

Generally emergency management professionals work in state/provincial and federal/national governments. In local municipalities and counties the work is often done by someone with other responsibilities, however larger municipalities and major cities will usually have dedicated emergency managers.

Obviously one person doesn’t do all of these activities, but emergency management is a very broad profession and emergency managers are involved in influencing the outcomes of many things done by governments, businesses and individuals.

Hope this helps.

That is really dependent on the distance the respondent has to travel & the nature of the emergency!
Fires will generally have a longer response time if it’s a volunteer fire department. Police, if cruising in the area will generally respond more quickly. EMT’s or ambulances respond as called.

The United States is always so eager to help out other countries when disaster strikes, which is great. But, did anyone help us when we suffered through Hurricane Katrina?
You all seem to have so much information, but not enough to know that wikipedia is an unreliable source. Anyone can write anything they want on wiki. And I am simply asking a question, not assuming anything.

Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 29, 2007

As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide.

Titled "Echo-Chamber Message" — a public relations term for talking points designed to be repeated again and again — the Sept. 7, 2005, directive was unmistakable: Assure the scores of countries that had pledged or donated aid at the height of the disaster that their largesse had provided Americans "practical help and moral support" and "highlight the concrete benefits hurricane victims are receiving."
Many of the U.S. diplomats who received the message, however, were beginning to witness a more embarrassing reality. They knew the U.S. government was turning down many allies’ offers of manpower, supplies and expertise worth untold millions of dollars. Eventually the United States also would fail to collect most of the unprecedented outpouring of international cash assistance for Katrina’s victims.

Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to
according to U.S. officials and contractors. Most of the aid went uncollected, including $400 million worth of oil. Some offers were withdrawn or redirected to private groups such as the Red Cross. The rest has been delayed by red tape and bureaucratic limits on how it can be spent.
addition, valuable supplies and services — such as cellphone systems, medicine and cruise ships — were delayed or declined because the government could not handle them. In some cases, supplies were wasted.

The struggle to apply foreign aid in the aftermath of the hurricane, which has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $125 billion so far, is another reminder of the federal government’s difficulty leading the recovery. Reports of government waste and delays or denials of assistance have surfaced repeatedly since hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck in 2005.

Administration officials acknowledged in February 2006 that they were ill prepared to coordinate and distribute foreign aid and that only about half the $126 million received had been put to use. Now, 20 months after Katrina, newly released documents and interviews make clear the magnitude of the troubles.

More than 10,000 pages of cables, telegraphs and e-mails from U.S. diplomats around the globe — released piecemeal since last fall under the Freedom of Information Act — provide a fuller account of problems that, at times, mystified generous allies and left U.S. representatives at a loss for an explanation. The documents were obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a public interest group, which provided them to The Washington Post.

In one exchange, State Department officials anguished over whether to tell Italy that its shipments of medicine, gauze and other medical supplies spoiled in the elements for weeks after Katrina’s landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, and were destroyed. "Tell them we blew it," one disgusted official wrote. But she hedged: "The flip side is just to dispose of it and not come clean. I could be persuaded."

In another instance, the Department of Homeland Security accepted an offer from Greece on Sept. 3, 2005, to dispatch two cruise ships that could be used free as hotels or hospitals for displaced residents. The deal was rescinded Sept. 15 after it became clear a ship would not arrive before Oct. 10. The U.S. eventually paid $249 million to use Carnival Cruise Lines vessels.

And while television sets worldwide showed images of New Orleans residents begging to be rescued from rooftops as floodwaters rose, U.S. officials turned down countless offers of allied troops and search-and-rescue teams. The most common responses: "sent letter of thanks" and "will keep offer on hand," the new documents show.

Overall, the United States declined 54 of 77 recorded aid offers from three of its staunchest allies: Canada, Britain and Israel, according to a 40-page State Department table of the offers that had been received as of January 2006.

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only the tip of the iceburg….

in the future, Google your questions als. You would be surprised in the aount of information you can find.

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One happened to our own people. The other happened to another country. Yet conservatives seem to expect Obama to treat Haiti like Katrina.

It’s fair. Obama is winning by miles.

I’d love some advise re: different programs (online maybe?) as well as career opportunities. Thanks!

For much more detailed information visit this site:

http://online.onetcenter.org/link/summary/13-1061.00

Emergency management specialists
(O*NET 13-1061.00)

Coordinate disaster response or crisis management activities, provide disaster preparedness training, and prepare emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g. hurricanes, floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies, hazardous materials spills) disasters or hostage situations.

2008 employment: 12,800
Projected 2008-18 employment change: Much faster than average
Most significant source of postsecondary education or training: Work experience in a related occupation

I have had ongoing pelvic pain and am worried about PID. I was finally given an emergency referral to a gynecologist. I know it can take months for a regular referral, so how long do you think I will have to wait for an emergency one?

just tell ur gyno u need to see her ASAP and tell her its very impoartant

The only information on the website is the description of the job. I guess I will have to contact them.

I’m not being flippant, but the best way to find out is to contact them. They have a website and you can email them and ask.

After hurricane Katrina hit police, and military forced people who owned guns legally to give up their guns. Also police forced people whose homes were NOT effected by the hurricane to leave their homes.Why did police, and military do this?

That’s exactly what’s led to several states passing laws prohibiting the police from using Emergency Situations to suspend the 2nd Amendment. In fact, Ray Nagin and New Orleans were sued by the citizens who lost their weapons, and the court ruled that the action was illegal. The city was ordered to return the weapons to their lawful owners. The citizens have had to go back to court and request that Nagin and New Orleans be held in Contempt of Court for failing to comply.

I’m guessing that if the Saints make the Super Bowl, the Katrina tribute will be longer. If not, Katrina will be mentioned in tandem with the Haiti tribute. Thoughts?

obligatory Katrina tribute??? geez, maybe a tornado will kill a few thousand in Kansas before game time