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Mitigations
  1. Mitigation creates safer communities by reducing losses of life and property.
  2. Mitigation enables individuals and communities to recover more rapidly from disasters.
  3. Mitigation lessens the financial impact of disasters on individuals, the Treasury, state, local and tribal communities.

Planning

  1. organizing resources;
  2. assessing risks;
  3. developing a mitigation plan; and
  4. implementing the plan and monitoring progress. 
The Mitigation Best Practices Portfolio is a collection of noteworthy mitigation and flood insurance activities that can be replicated by communities, tribes and states nationwide.
 Response
The National Response Plan, last updated May 25, 2006, establishes a comprehensive all-hazards approach to enhance the ability of the United States to manage domestic incidents.  It establishes protocols to help
  • Save lives and protect the health and safety of the public, responders, and recovery workers;
  • Ensure security of the homeland;
  • Prevent an imminent incident, including acts of terrorism, from occurring;
  • Protect and restore critical infrastructure and key resources;
  • Conduct law enforcement investigations to resolve the incident, apprehend the perpetrators, and collect and preserve evidence for prosecution and/or attribution;
  • Protect property and mitigate damages and impacts to individuals, communities, and the environment; and
  • Facilitate recovery of individuals, families, businesses, governments, and the environment.
Recovery

 

  
Preparedness


Planning how to respond when an emergency or disaster occurs and working to marshal the resourses to respond effectively. These activities help save lives and minimize damage. Everyone needs a preparedness pack.

Water is the most important component of any preparedness program. A healthy adult can only live three to four days without drinking water. Water is the cheapest preparedness item to acquire and the easiest to store, it is also the most overlooked item when preparing for an emergency and one of the hardest to obtain in time of crisis.