Domestically, the review calls for "enhanced central government and Armed Forces planning, coordination and capabilities" under the extraordinary totalitarian powers of the Civil Contingencies Act, to respond to domestic emergencies in the form of natural hazards, environmental disasters or other forms of strategic shocks.
Now that hurricanes Harvey and Irma have subsided, cities in Texas and Florida are grappling with public health emergencies in the form of a toxic soup of sewage, poisonous chemicals from Superfund sites and runoff from petrochemical industrial complexes.
Emergencies, in the form of natural disasters and new or protracted conflict, continued to extract a toll on the lives of children and women around the world.
Even before the end of the 2 week military offensive – which left about 34 children dead and at least 170 injured - UNICEF delivered emergency aid in the form of water kits, emergency health kits, children's clothes and shoes and other school supplies.
Reconstruction so far has mostly amounted to an emergency response in the form of plastic.
In the last three months it has twice needed to take emergency financing in the form of expensive merchant cash advance loans.
The SRC has a fleet of 13 emergency units in the form of type II ambulances (van type), manned by EMT-B personnel (usually 2), and 6 advanced life support (ALS) units, manned by senior paramedics (usually 2), servicing a total of 3.4 million people as of October 2010.
Had this been a real emergency ― in the form of an earthquake or an event that paralyzes my city ― I don't know what I would have done.
New York City has actually chosen to forego emergency assistance in the form of FEMA trailers.
UNHCR is also working to provide 'critical emergency assistance in the form of clean water, sanitation and healthcare, as well as shelter, blankets, household goods and sometimes food in refugee camp.
Given that no national or international relief effort has reached these areas, ZSL and Project Seahorse are working with the communities and local government units to provide emergency support in the form of packs containing food, clean water, and basic medicines.
