Essay On Mandatory Evacuations

EMS 310 Blackboard Discussion Week 2 - Mandatory Natural Disaster Evacuations - Who should perform this duty?

The tactical firefighting operation, mass notification process, evacuation plans and emergency operations command and control were readied by noon of 21 October, after timing estimates of the rapidly growing fires showed them fast approaching city limits. Starting on October 21st at 1030 hours, the Sheriff’s Department Operations Center (DOC) was activated, and reverse 911 calls were started to begin evacuations. On the 21st, eight reverse 911 calls were made, notifying 20,992 residences to evacuate. On the 22nd, 23 reverse 911 calls were made, notifying 210,156 residences to evacuate. On the 23rd, 14 reverse 911 calls were made, notifying 47,992 residences to evacuate. Finally on the 24th, one reverse 911 call was activated, notifying 900 residences to evacuate (SD County, 2008).

The government made plans for the removal of citizens from “evacuable” areas to “reception” areas a couple of months before the main evacuation period in September. Source A1, which is information taken from a Public Information leaflet issued by the government,

"I'm not going to lift the evacuation order until I have a better idea of what that means and what risk that poses," Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said in a news conference late Sunday night.

Maurer and Smith (2013) explain the order of evacuation, first are the physically disabled, the blind and deaf. I would make sure there were enough ambulances and nurses to care for the victims by contacting RCMC for staff for their external disaster policy. Next up are the mentally challenged persons and seniors because they may need extra time to leave the area. Young children would be next because their immune systems are not fully developed and then the medically dependent with respiratory or cardiac problems. I would then make sure my interpreters are ready for the people who speak little english.

Prior to Hurricane Harvey, Corpus Christi officials were forced to make the decision regarding whether or not the city would put into place a mandatory evacuation.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the legal considerations that an emergency manager must consider when conducting searches, seizures, and evacuation operations. The paper will address the following:

By the time the levees had failed on August 31, 2005, the government suggested that residents take buses to Superdome or Convention Center to evacuate. For the evacuees, however, this information lacked credibility, because this evacuation plan did not take them out of the city but sent them to places that were already surrounded by flooding. Also, it is common sense that when a flood comes, public transit will be no longer available to use. In New Orleans, over 80% of the citizens use public transit, which means that not many of them have their own vehicles, and it would be impossible for them to respond to the call to evacuate without operational public transit (Elder et al., pp. 2007,

The public do not all heed emergency protocols the same way. Even programs that help the very same community has potential to hurt the community. “While these public programs are effective in mitigating the disruptive impacts of disaster after-effects, they may provide perverse incentives for individuals exposed to hazards” (Davlasheridze, 2017, p. 95). Individuals who are given aid, resources, and other means to support their way of life may solely depend on these programs and not take steps to care for themselves. Low income groups on government welfare have tendency to remain in these programs for longer duration. “Personal emergency preparedness is emerging as a complicated behavior that emergency

I believe that politicians should not shun the traditionalistic approach, but they should instead follow the moralistic approach. However, I believe that they could follow the individualistic approach when the disaster is minor. To follow traditionalistic approach, to order mandatory evacuations only elites knowing that the disaster could impact the general public severely or possibly lose many lives, is an act ignoring the U.S constitution that is based on the human right and making a class system, which does not exist on the law, among people. If mandatory and voluntary evacuations are commanded for even minor disaster, it would occur greater chaos and panic among the general public than when they were not commanded. However, in case of severe

My response to the order would be to inform the Platoon Sergeant that legally we cannot follow through with it as it currently stands. We are allowed to have personnel evacuated from the city for their protection and are able to force them to leave if they don’t comply, however, we cannot destroy homes of those who refuse to leave according to the Law of War. Destroying homes is an unnecessary use of force and a violation under Law of War by discrimination. Homes are not considered a military objective as they are non-combatants. Another consideration is the evacuation of the sick and wounded personnel at the hospital. The patients cannot be moved until proper location and treatment of care have been established for their new location.

Evacuation plan will be initiated, especially for projected impact areas. Clear all communities in the path pf the storm will be clear out, mobile homes should mandatorily be required to find the nears shelters. First responders including law enforcement, EMS and the fire department should be activated. Every home in the evacuation area should be visited personnel by a responder to ensure they are aware of the order to evacuate and the location of shelters in the nearby area.

“The large number of casualties, heavy damage to buildings and basic infrastructure, and disruption of essential public services will overwhelm the capabilities of the State and its local governments to meet the needs of the situation, and the President will declare a major disaster or emergency. A major disaster or emergency can cause numerous fatalities and injuries, property loss, and disruption of normal life-support systems, and can have an impact on the regional economic, physical, and social infrastructures.”

flow heading to your home is to pack as much as you can and evacuate

This extract will elaborate on some of the legal considerations that the emergency manager must consider when conducting searches, seizures, and evacuation operations during an emergency management activity. Unfortunately with the unforeseen nature of the emergency and/or disaster one must consider whether this event involves imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, harm, lost of life or property resulting from any natural or man-made cause, the choices that must be made by local officials frequently are not easy to make in a split of a second (Nicholson, n.d.). Most of their decisions may not be the most popular choice but must be the course of action that will benefit the cause.