1- Montecito, CAL Disaster: caused by burned ground of big wildfire and heavy rain fall
2- Montecito may knew about the hazards but were not warned to to evacuate when
3- rich neighborhoods could have disasters as well
4- blame the victim
5- is the discipline and profession of applying science, technology, planning, and management to deal with extreme events that can injure or kill great numbers of people, do extensive property damage, and disrupt community life.
6- Emergency Manager is someone who has the day-to-day responsibility for EM program activities
7 EMgrs distribute resources to mitigate (lesson the effect or prevent) hazards, and they prepare for, respond to and recovery from the effects of all types of hazards
8 EM require multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches
9-Certifications: PDS, Advanced Professional Series (APS, CEM and AEM
10- EM challenges: issue salience of disasters, fragementation of overment responsbilities for disasters, difficult of local government to address disasters, disaster insurance
Who has Jurisdictions of EM: highly political, bureaucratic, infighting, profession rivalries
Decentralization of decision making with sound coordination, is how EM is defined currently
