FIRE 1016: Emergency Management Response & Recovery

This course elaborates on emergency management collaboration to support the needs of individuals, households, communities, states, and the federal government in providing support and services after catastrophic or emergency incidents. This course will review pre-disaster planning and focus on understanding recovery and rebuilding communities after disasters and emergencies strike. This course addresses different types of hazards, their interactions, and the consequences of disasters. This course will discuss current theories and principles for recovery planning, case studies from past disasters and discuss community resilience following and planning for disasters. Students will explore the response phase of emergency management including hazard detection, warning, evacuation, sheltering, search and rescue, emergency medical care, fatality management, and stress counseling. The decision-making process in the areas of transportation, politics, special needs populations, communication, legal issues, and record keeping is explained. A review of debris management and assessment is covered as well as ways to reduce vulnerability.