emergency management

A guide for children ages eight to fourteen who are sometimes home alone, using stories, plays, monologues, and quizzes to provide lessons on how to cope with home and health emergencies.

Describes the destruction caused by the Great Midwest Flood of 1993, the cleanup, and measures taken by business and homeowners to protect their property from future floods.

Briefly presents specific survival strategies that can be used in a tornado.

Briefly presents specific survival strategies that can be used in various earthquake survival situations.

Describes what to do in an emergency, from basic first aid for cuts and scrapes to when to call 911.

An inside look at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Provides instructions on how to prepare for weather disasters, discussing the dangers of each category of storm and the actions to take to survive them, offering information on how to avoid post-storm pitfalls, and including storm-specific checklists.

Discusses the formation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its Search and Rescue units, membership and responsibilities of the teams, and some of the disasters at which they've helped.

Written by former Under Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Brown, this book tells his side of the response to Hurricane Katrina, one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States. Without making excuses for himself, Brown describes in detail the federal response to the disaster. What Brown and others in government did not anticipate, was the fact that New Orleans' levees could be breached, waffling leadership, interfering media, and self-serving politicians seeking to score points with the government.

Offers a comprehensive account of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating impact on the city of New Orleans, describing how the storm destroyed the city and revealed serious flaws in the government's emergency response system and drawing on scientific research to explain why other equally destructive storms will happen in the future.