Assignment:
Please read and follow the instructions
Completion Instructions:
? 3 essay questions. Professionalism, Presentation and demonstration of class concepts and materials for all three question.
? Use the provided examination document to complete your examination, inserting the required information where indicated
? Your responses to the essay questions should be clear, complete, succinct and substantive. All conclusions and statements of fact must be supported by specific citation of sources, APA format when required.
? Proofread and edit your replies for organization, coherence, sentence structure, grammar and spelling.
? Maximum length is 750 to 1000 words. If you really need to go above this, then do so, but just not too much.
Essay Questions:
1. The use of information technology in emergency management is relatively new. Describe one example from recent years, preferably from within your own world (as much as possible), where technology positively played an instrumental role in disaster management? What would have happened if that particular technology had not been available?
2. You are the Emergency Manager of Disney World in Florida. At 1 P.M. on Saturday, June 1st 2017. You are in the Operations Center when a message comes in from local Law Enforcement. The message states that a credible threat to the park has been received and it needs to be completely evacuated immediately. At the moment that the order to evacuate is about to be sent out to all staff via the 4G cell network, it goes down. After a few minutes it is determined that the cell network, and land-line Internet is not functioning whatsoever and wont be back anytime soon. Fearing a massive loss of life, you decide to go ahead with the evacuation and pull out your backup plan.
A) Problem Analysis: Conduct research into Disney World to get an understanding of the scope of the problem ( i.e size of the facility, the # of staff and # of guests that would typically be there at that time, geographical and business concerns etc....) Use this to describe and analyze the problem at hand.
Your analysis will include
a) restatement of the problem
b) the scope of the problem
c) what are the specific challenges due to geography, communications, businessconcerns and perception.
B) Write a simple (bulleted) action plan (aka The backup plan) to conduct the evacuation. I am most concerned about the communications part of this. I want to know the overall steps. How does the message get sent out? To whom? What equipment is used? Provide an estimate on how long it would take you to fully evacuate the facility. Also discuss potential pitfalls.
C) What is required for your plan above to work in terms of training, exercises, equipment testing etc.... I want to know how you would Prepare the staff for this scenario.
3. You are the new Emergency Manager of Typical County USA. You have separate Fire, EMS, Police, Health, Housing and Public Works agencies that need to work together when responding to a disaster. The problem is that there has never been a disaster in your county before so nobody has prepared for one. On day one of your job, you decide that this has to change. Pick the top three things you would do that could be accomplished in the first 3 months. Don't worry about $ here. You have an unlimited budget. "Actions" can include: policy, announcements, meetings, formation of committees, development of plans, trainings, exercises etc.. Again, be creative but realistic.
a) Clearly state what those 3 actions would be
b) Explain why each of those has been chose to be in the top 3
c) For each action, clearly state what the goal or end state would be of each selection.
d) Briefly describe what each action would entail.