Katrina Active Duty Forces

As Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma successively lashed the gulf coast starting in late August 2005, nature’s fury exposed serious weaknesses in the United States’ emergency response capabilities. Not all emergencies pose this magnitude of challenge. In the United States, the initial—and usually major—responsibility for disaster response rests with local authorities. This “bottom-up” system of emergency management has a long history and continues to make sense in most circumstances. Core Challenges for Large-Scale Disaster

Preventing Delays as seen in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina through the Education of State and Federal Officials on Laws and Regulations Regarding the Use of Military Forces

Better than any ancestor archive, the NRF characterizes and adjusts the parts of individual residents; the private segment; non-legislative associations; nearby chose or designated authorities; (the Mayor or city chief with his or her neighborhood crisis supervisor and office and organization heads); the Governor with his or her State Homeland Security Manager, State Emergency Manager and division and office heads; with the Federal government beginning with the President and portraying the parts of the Homeland Security Council (HSC), National Security Council (NSC), the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Director of National Intelligence and every

Throughout the crisis of Katrina, not active duty military members, along with the National Guard provided additional support. The Joint Task Force was created, called JTF-Katrina, to better consolidate and organize the military part of the

Along with deployments over seas the National Guard has state mission. These state missions comprise of multiple parts. Part one of the mission is to respond to the natural disasters of their state and country. Most everyone has heard of the National Guard going out and battling fires, helping general public deal with all aspects of the floods, tornadoes and civil unrest. In these situations the governor of the state, territories or district, places his province in a state of emergency. This allows him to control the National Guard until the crisis is exerted and in which case the National Guard is returned to its normal state as the protector of freedom and safety of their state and country. The second part of this mission is to

This program is the Department of Homeland Security’s final priority to “plan, train, and equip police, fire, and paramedics to react successfully to terrorism; and promotes recovery with the assistance of disaster specialists.” (Homeland Security, 2015) One of the examples of disaster specialists that help assist in disasters like Hurricane Katrina is the Federal Emergency Management Agency also known as FEMA. FEMA helps communities with reducing their risk, helps its different agency officials prepare for all types of hazards, and also helps people in communities get back on their

The attacks were more localized than most catastrophic disasters, did not overwhelm emergency shelters or food distribution centers, and did not destroy the city infrastructure in either New York or Washington.. However, the 9/11 experience highlights one critical concept. One cannot ignore the importance of maintaining highly trained local emergency responders as well as properly staffed and equipped local emergency response agencies; local first responders are on scene first, handle the vast majority of rescue operations, and cannot be practically replaced by federal responders, especially when disasters strikes without

Great post this week, it was very interesting. After reading this week’s readings I found interesting the role that the military plays in the response to a CBRN attack. The Defense Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Response Force (DCRF) is probably one of the strongest assets that the Department of Defense (DOD) has when responding to a CBRN attack. That is because the DCRF is composed by 5,200 military personnel that are ready to deploy anywhere in the United States within hours (Joint Task Force Civil Support, n.d.). Their main mission is to assist the local authorities who responded first to the CBRN attack (Joint Task Force Civil Support, n.d.). Since there is a variety of missions that need to be carry out during the response

FEMA response to disastrous incident have improve drastically from the beginning of time. After each incident, organizations such as FEMA learned from previous incidents in what steps to take when it comes to dealing with Natural Disasters incidents. After Hurricane Sandy incident, “Communities are building back stronger and becoming more resilient for the future through collaborative partnerships between state, local and federal agencies” (N.D., 2015). Due to past Natural Disaster the government and other organizations had learned that it is best to come together and work as a team to provide assistance to those who were victims of the Natural Disaster incident. Since there were many organizations and they all had a different obligation. A

The whole world observed as the administration responders appeared incapable to provide essential protection from the effects of nature. The deprived response results from a failure to accomplish a number of risk factors (Moynihan, 2009). The dangers of a major hurricane striking New Orleans had been measured, and there was sufficient warning of the threat of Katrina that announcements of emergency were made days in advance of landfall (Moynihan, 2009). Nonetheless, the responders were unsuccessful to change this information into a level of preparation suitable with the possibility of the approaching disaster. Federal responders failed to recognize the need to more actively engage (Moynihan, 2009). These improvements include improved ability to provide support to states and tribes ahead of a disaster; developed a national disaster recovery strategy to guide recovery efforts after major disasters and emergencies; and the Establishment of Incident Management Assistance Teams in which these full time, rapid response teams are able to deploy within two hours and arrive at an incident within 12 hours to support the local incident commander (FEMA,

The failures of government response to Hurricane Katrina was a result of the aggregation of the local and federal governments lacking proper communication with each other, the levels of government not fulfilling their duties in a state of emergency, and the lack of personal responsibility that each level of government took upon themselves in the crisis. On a local level, Mayor Ray Nagin did not mobilize evacuation via bussing, nor did he ensure that adequate amounts of food and water were stocked in shelters, despite these both being primarily mayoral duties in a state of emergency. Former FEMA director Michael Brown accused Mayor Nagin of not having enough of a sense of urgency in the situation, thus causing a delay in aid to New Orleans.

Police departments need to develop contingency plans and backup systems to ensure that they can continue to operate and protect the community during the post-disaster recovery period. Furthermore, the police role in terrorism and disasters recovery is secondary; Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Red Cross, other charitable organizations, insurance companies, private businesses, state and local governments, and individuals have a primary responsibility for community and economic recovery. Moreover, Police were required to support the all-hazards homeland security mission with additional and enhanced equipment and training. Also, as a guide to homeland security, the police adopted a dual process, which they should have everyday uses and emergency uses; and regional cooperation should guide purchasing of the most expensive and specialized equipment. Department of Homeland Security raised new training requirements; established a Target Capabilities list that identifies what emergency responders and other will need to do in various types of disasters; and funded the development and delivery of homeland security related training for police and others, in addition to setting up a training portal. Continual training needs are planning for terrorism,

Throughout its history, FEMA has had two main missions. First, FEMA’s mission is to enhance the federal government 's capacity to deal with and survive foreign attacks. The main types of foreign attacks that FEMA is tasked to respond to relate to terrorist attacks and nuclear war. The second mission of FEMA is to assist state and local authori¬ties to respond to man-made and natural disasters that are to enormous for the local and state resources to respond to efficiently. While national security focuses more on civil defense, state and local authorities are more focused on natural disasters such as hurricanes, storms, floods and potential nuclear power accidents. These divergent focuses really presents FEMA with huge challenges since federal security authorities’ main objective is quite different from state or local authorities’ focus. Considering that FEMA designed the Federal Response Plan, the agency has the challenge of balancing these interests while working on its two key missions.

Hurricane Katrina exposed huge issues in the United States disaster preparedness and response programs. In 2005, the structure for homeland security was unable to manage catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina. Unified management of national response

On August 29, 2009, Hurricane Katrina struck the United States Gulf Coast. It was a Category 3 Hurricane, according to the Saffir Simpson Scale. Winds gusted to up to 140 miles per hour, and the hurricane was almost 400 miles wide . The storm itself did a tremendous amount of damage, but the storm’s aftermath was cataclysmic. Many claimed that the federal government was slow to meet the needs of the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the storm. This paper will examine the four elements of disaster management – preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation – as well as an analysis on the data presented.