The major objective of this article, with the help of lessons from the past, is to provide a system-oriented model for understanding and designing the interoperability of multiple emergency response organizations and their command, control, and communication operations in large-scale disasters.
ERDSS is mainly used to make emergency early warning contingency plans, coordinate and command emergency response activities, manage resources, and provide related knowledge.
For the next 48 hours, after making sure that my family was safe, I stayed at the City Command Center, directing our emergency response, calling the commanding General at the Presidio to ask for some 2,000 troops at his command to immediately be made available, and setting into motion those efforts needed to take us past the first week and into recovery.
At the Pentagon, while there were also problems of command and control, the emergency response was generally effective.
Details have emerged of the emergency response to the attack.
The panel also recommended that federal money be granted only when cities routinely trained their emergency response personnel to work together, using a command system designating one agency as the leader at a particular emergency.
City Council leaders said yesterday that they had authorized a $1 million capital grant to the American Red Cross in Greater New York to buy 16 emergency response vehicles, including a 36-foot mobile command center that was parked outside City Hall yesterday for tours.
But the second in command of York's emergency response, Carl Boasman, insisted there had been no conscious decision to hold the city's boats and crews back and that the city had been adequately resourced after it called in help from across the country.
To minimize the hazards along this portion, a command center staffed with emergency response vehicles and tow trucks on standby monitors cameras along the tunnels and viaducts in the canyon.
Hence, the role of a local government leader is more than just to exercise command and control as he/she does in emergency response.
He said the results of the exercise had led the city to order a $1 million mobile command center that would allow senior emergency response officers to move throughout the city.
