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Hurricane Response Issues
The purpose of this essay is to highlight and describe the various details that are inherent within a disaster. This essay will focus on a recent hurricane event that demands the attention of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and includes the necessary actions by the Incident Commander (IC). The current status of the problem is post hurricane and extra medical supplies are needed. Along with this problem lies the issue of drinking water, food and temporary shelter. There is also continuous rain falling as floods are threatening the well being of both the residents of this area and the rescue effort itself.
Decisions
Prioritizing during emergency responses is a very necessary thing to do in order to survive these troubling situations. Leadership is necessary in these cases to provide guidance and a sense of faith and hope in times of peril and danger. In hurricane response situations, the Incident Commander must be able to identify the most harmful threats and decide to action against such threats to allow the rescue effort to prevail.
Bucci et al. (2012) echoed this call for preparedness as a means to counter balance the many problems that are sure to manifest during hurricane...
Their research focused on Hurricane Sandy and described useful information that is very relevant to this situation faced by the IC. They suggested in their research that "one of the biggest issues arising after Hurricane Sandy was that many individuals who failed to evacuate did not have enough supplies on hand to survive. It did not help that, as was the case during Hurricane Katrina, the evacuation order for New York City came very late in the process. As a result, many of the 375,000 residents in the most flood-prone areas in New York City did not evacuate."
This suggests that the problems at hand are of a much larger scope than what is probably realized before the planning process has begun. Expecting the worse is a viable means in creating a useful decision matrix and setting priorities of work for protecting the rescue effort. Essentially, in times of great peril and immediate danger, the most precious resources must be conserved and useful and practical delegation is ultimately a welcomed help as well that can further mitigate the problems that will be exposed as the rescue effort continues and the situations worsens as the floods continue to rise.
Priority of Work
In this situation it…
References
Bucci, I., Inserra, D., Lesser, J., Mayer, M.A., Slattery, B., Spencer, J., & Tubb, K. (2013). After Hurricane Sandy: Time To Learn And Implement The Lessons In Preparedness, Response, And Resilience. The Heritage Foundation Emergency Preparedness Working Group, (144).
Wolshon, B., Urbina, E., Wilmot, C., & Levitan, M. (2005). Review of policies and practices for hurricane evacuation. I: Transportation planning, preparedness, and response. Natural hazards review, 6(3), 129-142.
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