Local Disaster Response Planning
select a community within the United States from your risk profile assignment. Using the community that you have selected, pick 1 of the hazards that was identified in the community’s risk profile, (see attatched paper) and write a hazard-specific emergency response plan that includes the following components.
Assignment Guidelines address the following in 4-5 pages:
Who will comprise your planning committee? Explain.
Identify public and private sector partner agencies and elected officials (if any) that should serve on the planning committee.
What are the component parts of the plan (be specific and detailed)? Explain.
What participating agencies may be more or less involved in which parts of the plan development? Explain.
Are there subject matter experts (SMEs) or other entities that should be involved in any one specific area of the plan development? Explain.
Based upon the emergency management concept of incident management that includes the phases of preparedness/mitigation, response, and recovery, identify the actions that will need to be taken in each phase as they relate to the hazard you have selected.
Identify the major challenges that the community and responders will encounter when responding to the hazard.
What solutions exist (e.g., mutual aid, contract services) to overcome those challenges? Explain in detail.
What should be the short- and long-term recovery goals of the community following this event’s occurrence?
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
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Terror Attack Emergency Response Plan
Introduction
Chicago is among the largest cities in the United States. The Chicago port is a huge infrastructure in the city and is critical in the movement of goods in and out of the city. The Chicago port conducts a lot of business on a daily basis, and there is massive movement of traffic in and out of the harbor. It, therefore, becomes necessary to come up with an emergency plan to be well prepared in case a hazard occurs.
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