Have you ever viewed a news report depicting the aftermath of a devastating natural disaster? The damage to human life and property are both staggering and heartbreaking. All parts of the world face the possibility of floods, hurricanes, tornados, fires, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural phenomena. Are you prepared if disaster would strike you? This course will help you prepare! The course is appropriate for any learner who is proactive about developing the core competencies of disaster readiness and survival planning. It is especially useful if you are seeking techniques that can ensure your personal protection, as well as the safety of your family, property, and belongings, during a natural disaster. In addition, it offers essential preparation for a variety of emergency situations and inconveniences, even if you do not live in major tornado, flood, hurricane, tsunami, or earthquake zone. For instance, could you and your loved ones manage without access to potable water, electricity, fuel, and banking facilities? If you are unsure of your ability to respond in any of these possible scenarios, this course is for you! Throughout the course, you will be introduced to the Disaster Cycle, specifically the Mitigation and Recovery phases, and will create an extensive personal preparedness plan for survival in the absence of common amenities, such as food and water, shelter, and communication. You will also acquire practical, easy-to-apply strategies for maintaining a healthy attitude during disaster which can allow you to remain calm, avoid panic, and draw upon inner and outer resources in dire circumstances. Although death may be an inevitable outcome of extreme circumstances, a balanced outlook can provide comfort for all parties involved. Finally, issues of how institutions and governments can aid in disaster are also discussed. If you are interested in this topic you may be interested in other online programs at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. Learn more about those programs by visiting our website: http://www.online.pitt.edu/programs/school-of-nursing/
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Introduction & Disaster Cycle
A disaster can be defined in several ways, but in all cases is a destructive event that overwhelms all available resources. A disaster may originate as natural or manmade and may be intentional or accidental. A natural disaster is caused by the forces of nature such as a hurricane, tornado, or earthquake. A manmade disaster may be the result of a terrorist act or industrial accident. Depending on the scope of the disaster, the available resources may be local, state, federal, or multinational. In this module, I will introduce the phases of the disaster cycle. The disaster cycle is a process that we constantly review and strive to improve for the future. It is important for you to understand each phase because clear expectations will enable you to develop an effective plan to keep you and your family safe. At the end of the module, be sure to complete the quiz.
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Michael BeachAssistant Professor
School of Nursing
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we need to realize that those,
those phases of disaster, not
only have different dynamics but
there're different players.
and you know, as I've told countless public
safety people and civilians, you know, if your
plan, if your disaster plan is to wait for
the FEMA helicopters to come and get you, you're
not going to survi, it's not going to go well.
>>
[INAUDIBLE]
>> You know, so you have to, you know, it starts with individual responsibility.
>> Mm-hm.
>> and then you know, family, neighborhood local
community, state, and then federal government as a supplement.
and I think that people have, have assumed and
you know, I'm not, you know, saying anything good
or bad about FEMA, but people have assumed that,
the federal government is going to take care of me.
And really, disaster preparedness starts at home.
>> And I think we, you know,
that was the big message back in the civil defense days.
and it's, it still holds today.
>> But I think we've seen that in
many disasters, that people are, have like an entitlement.
They think it's going to happen.
But they don't understand that there's a delay.
And in some of the hurricanes that we've all responded to and worked with,
the many organizations that, that are available, but they have to be invited in.
The, the theme of the DMAT, the I'm
trying to think of all, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the, the Baptists, the.
There's tons of organizations.
But, first of all, they need to be invited, and second of
all, you need to have arrangements for where they're going to go and.
>> Right.
>> And, we've gone to many a disaster and it's like, where're we staying?
Well, we don't know.
>>
[LAUGH]
>> And, I'm prepared to sleep on the floor.
>> Yeah.
>> Right.
>> But there's, there's that wave, but the problem
is, is the wave takes time to get there.
>> Yeah.
>> And, you know, there were people that, you know, that
were, you know, and, and, you know, Facebook is a great
thing to, to get the word out about disaster stuff, and
and, somebody posted on there, I want to go help, you know.
How can I do that?
And I replied back, well the time to think about that was a
couple of months ago so that you could get the training, get affiliated,
learn disaster dynamics and everything else.
And she says, well, I never even thought of that.
we saw that in September, after September 11.
The number of people, and this is important for health care people.
The I
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want to go help, I need to go help.
And yes, they had a license, and yes they
had some clinical experience, but they didn't have disaster experience.
>> Right.
>> It's a completely >> And it's totally different.
>> Completely different dynamic. Completely different dynamic.
>> And then you get into the coverage.
You just don't go to a disaster like they had
at at the Oklahoma City bombing where Healthcare workers ran into
that area and landed up getting, either getting killed or injured,
and that's the worst thing you could do in a disaster.
Is go over there and try to help when, and
be untrained and unequipped, and we see that all the time.
And, whether it's sending food or trying to you know, step in.
Like Rob's saying, you, you need to think of if, if you're a
nurse and you want to to help in a disaster, join a DMAT team.
Or join the, the local medical response team.
>> Reserve Corps.
>> Which we have.
>>Reserve Corps. >>The Reserve Corps.
>>Right.
>>That's what I was looking for. Very good
[INAUDIBLE]
[LAUGH]
>>
[LAUGH]
>> and, and it is amazing, there are those organizations.
And that's where I think is, if nothing
else we send the message that there are many
organizations that need help, they need players, they need,
they need EMTs, paramedics,
nurses, doctors, anesthesiologists, physicians, pharmacists.
You name it, we need everything.
because, the example is, when, when some of the
organizations like a DMATcome, they bring a whole hospital.
Well, they have to have
a whole hospital. They need an x-ray technician.
And sometimes I don't think they, they.
Some people don't feel that they could do what's of value.
>> Right.
>> You're a laborer, we could use you.
You know?
>> You know and, and we see this in large scale disasters and in
Haiti also, where people just showed up and said, you know, I'm here to help.
>> Right.
>> You have to provide me food, clothing, shelter, medical supplies.
No?
>> You become
[INAUDIBLE]
offices. Yeah.
>> Yeah.
And you know, you know, I caught people going
through a stash of MREs and said who are you?
Oh, you know, we're from such and such an organization.
Oh, that's nice. What are you doing here?
Oh, we're here to help you.
Oh, now, there's a process for you to go through that.
So, you run it in, in you know, this, we kind of got away from ICS, didn't we?
[LAUGH]
Going back, going back to ICS, >> No, we'll get back, we'll get back.
>> You know, you know, we talk about accountability, we talk about
freelancing, and we talk about affiliated
spontaneous volunteers and also donations management.
>> So freelancing, hey I'm going to do what I want.
You know I'm going to go.
>> You can't do that.
>> You can't freelance. You gotta be accountable.
You know the whole, whole idea that
behind disaster management is meeting unmet needs.
>> Right. >> Right, so if I'm a non profit.
He's an
non profit.
Hey lets get together and figure out how to do this best.
>> All right, so that we're not competing with one another.
And, on the non-profit side, we're not wasting our donors' money.
>> Right.
>> Right.
>> So then we look at affiliated and spontaneous volunteers.
that's something that you need within your
system because there's always people that want to help.
>> Mm-hm.
>> And If they're not already affiliated with Sal Army or, or the
Southern Baptists or the Menonites or, or any of those, those established
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kind of groups, what are you going to do with them?
So, you need to have some sort of a plan for that.
And then, going to the other side of that is, is donations management.
>> where, you know, it's okay to say no.
and you know, I make people in my classes, raise your hand.
Both of you, raise your right hands. >> Mm-hm.
>> Okay, you guys raised your right hands?
Okay, I promise that I will never do a food or clothing drive in a disaster.
>>
[LAUGH]
>> That's right. >> Right?
yeah.
Your best way to do is, is get online, find a nonprofit that's reputable.
and, you know, okay, you know, this is
the organization that has the mission that I like.
I'm going to donate to them in the matter that they want to be donated to.
so if I send a truckload of, of old
clothes into the disaster site, I have caused a problem.
I haven't helped anybody.
>> Yeah. >> So that's another
aspect of, you know, beyond ICS, going more into NIMS.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> is the resource management, donation management, volunteer management.
the, non-governmental low-ed kind of concept.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> So when we talk about ICS, there's these other
kind of things that kind of, you know, are, are nested around them.
>> When well my search and rescue group, as a
volunteer organization, wanted to go down and do something after Katrina.
And we
called and we said, you know, here we are.
We're trained, we have all of our training records, we have our own
insurance, we will bring all of our own stuff, we'll be totally self-contained.
And they said, great, put your name on the list and we'll call you.
Well, we're still waiting for that phone call.
It's not built into the system to have somebody just
call up, and say, hey, can I come, and help.
That, that does not work well.
Well, we affiliated ourselves with
the Red Cross, and went down as, as, as a unit, as a Red Cross volunteer.
Now, the Red Cross really didn't know what to do with us either.
I mean/g, we're a search and rescue group, and first thing they always said, was.
We don't do search and rescue. >> Or
[INAUDIBLE]
[LAUGH]
>>
[LAUGH]
>> Well, well, almost, almost.
We, they, they did look at us, and
somebody did recognize that we were self-contained and self-sufficient.
So they stuck us.
At an extreme point in their disaster system.
So, so they were getting their
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out, but this was, this was beyond that point.
And what we did was mapped out kind of the area.
And it worked out well.
I mean it, it, it really, it, it worked out well.
We provided food, water, ice, and, and other things for people in areas that
really weren't being served yet. But we were stationed in Waveland/g.
At this, shopping
plaza.
So we set up our system, our, our tent and everything in back.
And, and truly we took care of ourselves, and it was great.
Out in the parking lot, all of those trucks, all of those donations, all of
that unasked for stuff just came. When we got there, there was
a tractor trailer full of bananas that
had been unpacked and just stacked up on the, on the asphalt.
Clothing, shoes all kinds of stuff that was just in
piles there, and we were there for about two weeks.
And ,as we were leaving, they were bringing
in a front loader that was going to
scoop up all of that stuff that had been sitting there and throw it all away.
So it was really wasted. In the middle of the night, I remember
a tractor-trailer came with medical supplies.
Unasked for, un, we, nobody had any idea what to do with it.
There were some student nurses who were there doing some
sort of clinic, and they ended up giving it to them.
you know, it, it was crazy.
On the other side of the coin, I don't know if they were
the Southern Baptists, but there was a
church organization that was sanctioned, was organized.
And they came in with their own stuff,
with donated clothing, toys for the kids, books.
food, whatever else, and that was all set
up and organized, and they provided hot meals.
So, you know, really became obvious to us that, the difference between, this
is organized, requested, part of the system, and this ended up being a waste.
>> You know, in, in, there's a,
the national voluntary organizations active in disaster and
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>> is a great organization because those larger groups can, can
become involved and work together again to meet these unmet needs.
during, you know, there have been, you know, vol, there
was the, you know, Greensburg, Kansas tornado a couple years back.
there was a church group that wanted to come
in and help, but wasn't plugged into the system.
so it wasn't like a turf issue. It was more of a coordination issue.
How do we get this, how do we plug this in, how
do we tell them what needs to, you know, to go on?
How to expect that.
so you know, that's, that's a whole other aspect,
you know, with the VOADs which are some wonderful organizations.
Again they're some
[INAUDIBLE],
you know, they've got this, those kitchens that'll
do five, or, fifty thousand meals a day.
I mean, these people were, are, are really good.
my wife is affiliated with the Church of the Brethren.
They do disaster childcare.
So you know, there's a lot of these organizations out there that
that people need to understand how it plugs into the incident command system.
>>Right.
>> But I will say >> So this is a segue back into
[CROSSTALK]
>> I will say this about the churches and the food that was down there.
I, I, got, I, I chose MREs over the,
chicken fried steak that that we had every day.
It, it, that was, that got really old.
>> Well, we've babbled on for quite a while.
Any final comments? Something you haven't said.
>> Go with the flow is the key,
is that I would say. Go with the flow.
>> Yeah.
>> Be standardized, but realize that sometimes you have to do dance.
>> Yeah.
>> I want to thank you both.
This has been great, beyond my expectations.
I really appreciate it.
>>We, we know you have low expectations, so that was it.
[LAUGH]
>>
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They, they, they were.
[LAUGH]
Excellent. Alright.
>>Thank you very much.
>>Well, thank you. >>Great.
Thanks.
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