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Disaster Management Flashcards

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What are the two types of disasters?

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Natural or Man-made

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What are the types of natural disasters?

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Hurricane, Tsunami, Earthquake, Wildfire, Drought, Flooding, etc.

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What are the types of Man-made disasters?

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Bioterrorism: the deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, toxins or other harmful agents that cause illness or death in people, animals or plants.

Agroterrorism: the malicious attempt to disrupt or destroy the agricultural industry and/or food supply system of a population through the use if plant or animal pathogens to cause devastating disease in the Ag sectors

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What are the two important forms infectious diseases involving animals?

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  1. Foreign animal disease (transboundary)

2. Zoonotic disease

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Why plan for disasters?

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  • Disasters have doubled in recent years
  • Reduces loss of life and property
  • Enhances response and recovery
  • Prioritizes needs
  • Improves communication
  • No planning = no funding
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What are the 4 phases of disaster management?

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  1. Mitigation
  2. Preparedness
  3. Response
  4. Recovery
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What is the meaning and purpose of Mitigation?

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It is an attempt to prevent hazards from developing into disasters, or to reduce the effect of disasters that occur.

  • Focuses on long-term measures
  • Can be part of recovery
  • Can be structural or non-structural
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What is the meaning of Preparedness?

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  • Plans and preparations made to save lives and property, and to facilitate response operations
  • Provisions to ensure that all the resources/services needed to cope with a disaster can be rapidly mobilized and deployed
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What is the meaning of and some examples of Response?

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Actions taken to provide emergency assistance. save lives, minimize property damage and speed recovery.

  • Search and rescue operations
  • Provisions of emergency food/water
  • Temporary shelters
  • Static and mobile vet clinics
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What is the meaning of Recovery?

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Actions taken to return to a normal or improved operating condition following disaster

  • Reconstructing physical structures
  • Restoring emotional, social, economic and physical wellbeing
  • May include continued veterinary care
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What are some common issues regarding companion animals in disasters?

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  • Failure of people to evacuate because of their pets
  • Animal abandonment
  • Logistics of care and sheltering of animals (equipment, space, behavior concerns, etc)
  • Animal identification
  • Reuniting displaced animals with their owners
  • Adoption
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What are some special considerations to take into account during large animal infections disease outbreaks?

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  • Veterinary manpower
  • Mass carcass disposal
  • Animal ID and premise ID
  • Time from diagnosis to slaughter
  • Insurance payments
  • Policy issues
  • Environmental contamination
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Why are veterinarians important in disasters?

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  • Trusted members of society
  • Educated in public health, herd health, food safety and toxicology
  • Ongoing contributors to surveillance
  • Key players in response efforts
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What does CART stand for and what is its importance?

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County Animal Response Team

  • Local gov’t and agencies take immediate action in the event of large scale disasters
  • Rapid response
  • Utilize local resources
  • Establish local relationships (sheriff, fires, animal control)
  • Familiar with territory and special considerations
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What does SART stand for and what is its importance?

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State Animal Response Team

  • Interagency organizations
  • Public-private partnership, joining gov’t agencies with private goals
  • Train to facilitate a safe and efficient response to disasters at local, county, state and federal levels
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What are the Federal Level Veterinary Response Teams?

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VMAT - Veterinary Medical Assistance Team

NVRT - National Veterinary Response Team

NAHERC - National Animal Health Emergency Response Corp

US Public Health Service

*Requested when the local vet community is overwhelmed

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What are the characteristics of VMAT?

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  • Operates under the AVMA
  • Must be requested by a state
  • Funded through the American Veterinary Medical Foundation
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What are the 3 Primary Functions of VMAT?

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  1. Early Assessment Volunteer Teams - assess veterinary conditions and infrastructure, and gather data to enable state deployment of appropriate resources
  2. Basic Treatment Volunteer Teams - provide primary field care to augment overwhelmed local capabilities. Could include establishment of a base-of-operations as a field staging area for state-based veterinary triage and veterinary medical care of displaced animals
  3. Training - provide emergency-related education and training to state veterinary associates, professionals and colleges
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What are the characteristics of the NVRT?

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  • Part of the Dept of Health and Human Service’s National Disaster Medical System
  • Fully supported Federal program
  • Private citizens who have been approved as intermittent federal employees and are activated in a disaster
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What are the responsibilities pf the NVRT?

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  • Assess veterinary needs of the community
  • Animal disease surveillance
  • Zoonotic disease surveillance and public health assessments
  • Assure food and water safety
  • Hazard mitigation
  • Humane euthanasia
  • Biological and chemical terrorism surveillance
  • Animal decontamination
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What are the characteristics of the NAHERC?

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  • USDA’s Animal and Plant Inspection Service (APHIS)
  • Respond to exotic disease outbreaks and other disasters which affect livestock, poultry, companions animals and wildlife.
  • Temporary USDA APHIS employee
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What are the characteristics of the US Public Health Service?

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  • One of seven uniformed services
  • 1000+ veterinarians
  • Dedicated to public health promotion, public health response, disease prevention and public health science
23
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What are some problems identified in the past with disasters?

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  • Communications issues
  • Command and control problems
  • No standardized plan
  • Training
  • No common operating plan
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What is the NRF?

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National Response Framework

Establishes a comprehensive, national, all-hazards approach to domestic incident response

  • Lists all levels of government, private sector, and non-gov’t orgs in a unified approach to emergency management
  • Builds on NIMS
  • Aligns key roles and responsibilities across jurisdictions
  • Always in effect (fully or partially)
  • Best practices and procedures
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What are the 15 Emergency Support Functions?

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  1. Transportation
  2. Telecommunications & Technology
  3. Public works & Engineering
  4. Firefighting
  5. Emergency Management
  6. Mass care, Housing, Human services
  7. Resource support
  8. Public health and medical services
  9. Urban search and rescue
  10. Oil and hazardous material response
  11. Agriculture and natural resource
  12. Energy
  13. Public safety and security
  14. Community recovery, mitigation, and economic stabilization
  15. Emergency public information and external communications
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What is NIMS?

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National Incident Management System

  • Homeland security presidential directive - 5
  • Mandates the use of the Incident Command System
  • Multi-agency coordination system
  • Public information system
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What is the ICS?

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Incident Command System
(used by NIMS)

  • Standardized, on-scene, all-hazard, incident management
  • Multiple agency cooperation
  • Top-down structure
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What is the ICS Span of Control?

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The amount of individuals or resources one can supervise

1: 5 is ideal
1: 3 if you need to shrink response
1: 7 if you need to increase response

29
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What management functions of ICS are performed by veterinarians?

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Operations and planning

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