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Emergency planning

Emergency Preparedness is known to be the discipline of dealing with and avoiding both natural and man-made disasters. It involves mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters and public health threats. Emergency preparedness requires a partnership among all levels of government (local, State, and Federal) and the private sector (business and industry, voluntary organizations, and the public).

1. Types of threats, areas of concern around the country.

Emergency preparedness deal with different types of threats, natural and man-made disaster. The natural threats include wildfires, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, and tornadoes (Jouini, Rabai, & Aissa, 2014). Wildfires can occur in any forested are. In the United States wildfires occurs every year in the western area of the country, in California for example. Floods can occur in any region of the United States but according to the national geography certain regions in the Northeast and the Midwest are more susceptible to be flooded due to, snow melt combined with rainfall which can lead to river flooding in spring for example in the northwest Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. . Earthquakes are most prevalent along the plate edges and along faults. The edges of the oceanic and the continental plates are also common susceptible places for earthquakes.

ii- Phases in planning:

Disaster is part of everyday’s life but in order to better handle any