Disaster and Emergency Preparedness

Introduction

The municipality's emergency planning and management activities includes comprehensive emergency plan, which is the guide for the City in an emergency, natural disaster or power outage.  The Plan is a strategic document and a template for the City and its employees to use for many years to make Deerfield Beach a safe place to live. Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan would be used to assist the community in a state of emergency.

The organization will carry on its work with partners of the city, state, county, and at national levels to further strengthen this critical mitigation and response capability, along with the associated recovery strategies. In the event of a major community health emergency, it is expected that the Deerfield Beach Department of Fire and Rescue will play a significant role in terms of preventative measures such as mass immunizations and emergency medical response to the critical situations.

Environmental degradation

In the emerging global environmental crisis, many disasters are generated or exacerbated by environmental degradation is, for instance, deforestation leads to flooding, because nothing hinders water runoff from catchments, the destruction of mangroves (coastal) wetlands reduces the ability of the coastal strip to resist tropical winds and storm surges etc. Drought, as well as its duration and severity - is a natural phenomenon. Drought may worsen: invalid scheme planting, over-grazing, topsoil erosion, lack of land reclamation works, the depletion of both surface and groundwater, and, to a certain extent, the construction, reflected in particular in the uncontrolled growth of cities, which is associated with errors in the regional environmental planning and town planning. The unpreparedness of the population and the lack of information

Catastrophes can also occur because people in an area threatened, just do not know about them and even less knowledgeable about how to avoid them, or what protective measures should be taken. Ignorance in this case is not necessarily a consequence of poverty - it may simply be lack of knowledge as to how to build a safe house or how to choose safe places for housing. Very often people are not familiar with evacuation routes and safe routes, and often do not give this the proper values. Other groups may not know where to seek help in case of disaster.

Emergency Planning

Considering the legal and organizational framework, the emergency management of an emergency concept, planning framework instructions and rules of conduct for loss events on or with respect to the Deerfield Beach, Florida has formalized this and provides organizational and technical institutions which significantly to the limitation of damages after an emergency or breakdowns contribute.

The airport has an effective emergency planning, which is set in the operating instructions for emergency situations. It regulates the procedures for emergencies in the area of ??the airport. In it the basics, detection and alarm channels as well as powers and responsibilities are defined. In addition, it defines procedures that are required in a coordinated effort of several departments. As an airport operator Deerfield Beach, the Company shall be the duty of the ...