This combination leaves the population less able to withstand an emergency of this kind.
And I don't think anyone ever anticipated that they would have to deal with an emergency of this kind.
"I hate to say it, but we trained for exactly this type of thing, a school emergency of this type," Dan McClelland, the county sheriff, said.
The former prime minister Naoto Kan, who was distrustful of Tepco and relied on advisers who had no experience of an emergency of this magnitiude, comes off slightly better.
The last time that a national public health emergency of this scope was called was in 2009 in response to the H1N1 influenza virus.
Moreover, the constitution of the United States, as far as it has provided for an emergency of this kind and authorized the general government to interfere in the domestic concerns of a State, has treated the subject as political in its nature, and placed the power in the hands of that department.
You must do this immediately, today, as you would for any other national emergency of this scale.
An emergency of this scale may be caused by a suddenly escalating disaster or crisis, or a significant deterioration within an existing emergency.
The benchmarks for adequate response in an emergency of this kind are those set out in international guidelines and standards (for example, the Sphere standards), but the recovery-development phase is often new territory, not easily measured against predictive targets.
The emergency department of this hospital handles all emergencies except gynecological/obstetrical, ophthalmologic and pediatric ones.
