Disaster Response Activities

Disaster Response Activities
 

Warning. 

               This is the dissemination of information concerning the threat and danger that is likely or will occur. Warnings are ruined by delay and for that reason they require rapid release to all concerned. The result is to set-off preparation activities. The dispersion could be through radio, TV, mass texting and social media.

Evacuation.
              Evacuation means removing people from the area of risk, under imminent danger or been affected by a disaster the lives, emergency medical services being the source of urgency. In Kenya evacuation was recently seen with the evacuation of Kenyans from Sudan after clashes begun. During the floods in western Kenya small evacuations happen and migrations can be seen. The recent Westgate Mall terror attack made the country realize that training for such situations needs to be intensified to help evacuate people and quickly resolve terror related attacks.

From Bbc.

For evacuation to work some conditions are.

1. Accurate and timely warming system.
2. Clear escape routes.
3. An existing policy that requires all to comply with orders to vacate.
4. Public awareness of the evacuation plan.
Interestingly the evacuation of people from where drought or floods are ravaging is called crisis induced migration. We have seen these in western during floods and in norther Kenya where drought in almost an annual problem.

From Bbc