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Weapons and First Responders
First responder personnel encounter scene management challenges while responding to disasters suspected to have been occasioned by chemical, biological and radiological weapons. This occurs as a result of uncontrolled access to and from the incident scene, uncontrolled movement of contaminated victims and lack of safe working methods for the first responders (NATO, 2007). The first responders also find it extremely difficult to contain the release of any substances. To mitigate this challenge, the scene should be isolated to mitigate consequences. Effective scene management is imperative to control access to and from the incident scene. Movement of contaminated victims should also be controlled (Shea, 2004). Authorities should provide safe working methods for responders and contain the release of any substances. First responders are also faced with the challenge of saving and protecting lives. Saving lives is the top priority of all responding agencies. Contamination of victims and casualties should be considered the part of initial assessment and effective methods...
It is imperative that the public are given timely warnings and if appropriate be evacuated. This contributes to saving of lives by reducing the risk of exposure (NATO, 2007). If need be, specialist advice should be sought to assist with consequence management.
It is critical to have a national inventory of critical infrastructure so that at the times of emergency protection of such infrastructure can be enhanced and emergency response expedited. Think of the Hurricane Katrina incident when a myriad of factors combined to negatively impact the speed and efficiency of the Federal response. Physical destruction, devastation and disruption of such infrastructure by natural disasters or terrorist activities can severely restrict geographic access to core parts where rescue missions should be conducted (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2013). Talking of terrorist activities, keeping inventory of major installations like the rail transport, the airports, the road networks can help like the Department of Homeland Security…
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Federal Emergency Management Agency (2013). A How-To Guide to Mitigate Potential
Terrorist Attacks against Buildings. Retrieved from http://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/4608?id=1938
NATO (2007). Guidelines for First Response to a CBRN Incident. Retrieved from http://www.nato.int/docu/cep/cep-cbrn-response-e.pdf
Shea, D.A. (2004). Terrorism: Background on Chemical, Biological, and Toxin Weapons and Options for Lessening their Impact. Retrieved from http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL31669.pdf
Weapons of Mass Destruction 1 An electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) attack could crash the American economy and bring virtually every industry to a standstill—such is the reliance of modern business upon the digital infrastructure. Thus, considering an EMP attack is something that government should take very seriously. As more and more of the world becomes dependent upon cyber infrastructure for the maintenance of other systems, the complexity of the security services of a
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8). Some additional equipment used by first responders might include both breathing masks and full-fledged gas masks (depending on the circumstances), ropes, ladders, flashlights, helmets (some sporting lights), anchor points, buoyancy control devices, stretchers (some with wheels, others are handheld) portable radios, food, water, antibiotics, insulin, needles and even more. Much of this equipment will be a matter of not only practicality, but of necessity as well. First responders also need clothing
2 Implications for Homeland Security and Law Enforcement: Generally, any biological weapons attack that necessitates a federal response requires local authorities to provide site security while also ensuring that maintenance of essential police and emergency services by local agencies who are most familiar with the geography and public utilities.3 in that respect, biological weapons terrorist attacks require effective crisis management planning well in advance to establish emergency mobilization procedures and to
The foolishness of this reversal of priorities would be clearly demonstrated in the contrast between the results of intelligence efforts on 9/11 and those just two years prior. After the resignation of Tenet, who submitted as his official reason for departure the desire to spend more time with his family, his spokesman noted that "no one in the U.S. government was more aggressive in calling attention to and dealing with
Emergency management is also a vital part to the planning for a disaster. Training will have to be conducted at periodic intervals to maintain the preparedness of the emergency response team and to evaluate the condition and the operational difficulties if any that may arise due to the equipment being used. The procedures will have to be critiqued and constantly evaluated to determine if a better, safer or more efficient