Debris is scattered for miles, houses are unrecognizable, and vehicles have been thrown like baseballs. This would be an outcome of a natural disaster. Natural disaster have many forms such as earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and fires. With various technology, communication and information relaying has become more effective and assists both disaster preparedness and response. However, urbanization of cities, like Los Angeles, makes it increasingly difficult to respond swiftly. This leads to newer technology being used and a sense of security and safety is felt. When natural disasters such as earthquakes hits, Los Angeles is unable to interact with its surroundings. Ultimately, the urbanization of Los Angeles creates a society that is not able …show more content…
This is the main philosophy of Earthseed: God is change. Those who do not embrace change are still victims of change, even with new information to help them change. This is shown within the community of Robledo after it fell into chaos. The elders of the community live in denial and refuse to accept change. That is why they are still victims of …show more content…
Technology such as computers and robots are being designed to handle specific tasks. According to the US Department of Defense, a robotics challenge is seeking to develop newer robots and can help people respond in times of disaster (US). Local Authorities, such as police and firefighters, will be able to give commands by voice to the robots in disaster situations. This allows for the building of more successful response teams. Currently, a successful disaster response operation depends on surge capacity, which is having enough resources, transportation and trained responders (LA). In addition, the main challenge is being able to manage these resources swiftly and being coordinated and used effectively at their destination. This is where disaster management becomes an issue. In order for an effective communicative system to be established between communities at risk or affected by the disaster and emergency institutions, information needs to be relayed in both ways: in and out. Different types of technology such as mobile technology, space-based technology, and many more allow for faster response and preparedness. Many emergency institutions have used mobile technology, particularly the usage of cell phones, one of the fastest growing technologies in the world, to communicate information between each other. The main purpose of this is to send warning messages and emergency information to public officials and the broad
Ten million California residents who lived closely from the major fault lines could have been endangered in many extreme ways. (House, 56). A tragic thing was that after the earthquake a multitudes of fire followed right after. The situation led to the water mains being destroyed and the firefighter being left with no water to settle the growing fire which continued blazing. The bay water was planned on putting all of the dure out but it was to far in distance to be able to transport it (Earthquake of 1906, 2). The firefighters who were putting out the fire were either surrounded or being burned by the fire that was blazing in all directions (San Francisco Earthquake, 2). A resident who was present during the event mention that he/she saw men and women standing in a corner of a building praying, one person who became delirious by the horrific ways that were surrounding him while crying and screaming at the top of his lungs “the Lord sent it, the Lord”. Someone also mentioned that they experience themselves seeing Stones fall from the sky and crushing people to death. Reporters say there were 100 cannons going off (San Francisco Earthquake, 3). People who lived fifty miles away from the fire was able to “read the newspaper at
Sacramento is a bustling city with a diverse population and a city structure to match. In the last few decades the growth and development within our area has grown exponentially, land that was completely vacant fields and farmland has been replaced with shopping centers and freeways, expanding with the population increase in recent years. With the fast-track building of these areas before the economic collapse, more areas were developed than can currently be filled, which unfortunately has left many new buildings empty and lots paved for new construction or parking lots left unused. This is in addition to the expansion of roads and freeways in an attempt to relieve the traffic congestion that comes from rapid urban growth.
At 5:12 a.m. on April 18th, 1906, the California city of San Francisco was awoken by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Chaos erupted with the earthquake leading to fire break outs throughout San Francisco (Cameron and Gordon. Pgs 69-73).The earthquake and the resulting fires caused destruction to majority of the city with buildings crumbling and igniting into flames. Many people died along with thousands and thousands of people being left homeless. This devastating earthquake left the city and United States in a financial crisis. Although the 1906 earthquake was one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, the city of San Francisco was able to overcome these substantial physical, social and economic impacts it had.
We have seen a constant change of our environment afflicted by the human, nature and nurture influence, creating and reinventing what we know of a culture, city and society. San Francisco, a city of multi-diverse neighborhoods of highly trending culture, commerce, fashion and finance, has been immensely affected by it; seeing a consistent development before and after the 1906 earthquake which destroyed over 80% of San Francisco. The earthquake and the subsequent fires, one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States, took from the people of the Bay Area their houses and families, leaving roughly 3000 deaths and at least 270,000 people homeless. Nonetheless, this mayor disaster also gave the opportunity for a rebuild
Hazards pose risk to everyone. Our acceptance of the risks associated with hazards dictates where and how we live. As humans, we accept a certain amount of risk when choosing to live our daily lives. From time to time, a hazard becomes an emergent situation. Tornadoes in the Midwest, hurricanes along the Gulf Coast or earthquakes in California are all hazards that residents in those regions accept and live with. This paper will examine one hazard that caused a disaster requiring a response from emergency management personnel. Specifically, the hazard more closely examined here is an earthquake. With the recent twenty year anniversary covered by many media outlets, the January 17, 1994, Northridge, California earthquake to date is the most expensive earthquake in American history.
Accordingly, in the wake of 2005 summer, hurricanes catastrophe caused great distraction and damages along the U.S. Gulf Coast and again the subject of inter-agency interoperability in communications was pointed out as operational disadvantage for the first responder agencies. Approximately fifty thousand local first responder agencies, across the U.S., are generally responsible for all emergency services. By virtue of the fact that each agency is left to make independent decisions with regards to their respective local communications systems, the common objective of interoperability remains unachieved. The U.S. current House of Representatives approximates that more than seventy percent of public safety communications equipments are still analog, outdated and extremely incompatible with neighboring local jurisdictions’ communications systems (Frost & Sullivan,
In today’s society military, police, and firefighters can use robotic technology to keep humans out of harm’s way and to assist them with their work. In many ways robots can help first responders and our military keep themselves and their communities safe from harm.
Rescue robot is a robot that has been designed for the purpose of rescuing people in situations that employ rescue robots are mining accidents, urban disasters, hostage situations, and explosions. The benefits of rescue robots to these operations include reduced personnel requirements, reduced fatigue, and access to otherwise unreachable areas. Since then many new ideas have been formed about rescue robots . These robots are very important in disaster scenarios and are hopefully taking a change for the better.
In most of the situation chance to finding victims still alive the rescuers have very short time to find the trapped or missing victims in collapsed structure. The solution for this use technology can make a great help for rescuers. Intelligent mobile robots can be very helpful and efficient tools to speed up search and rescue operation. Rescue robots are also useful to do the job in situations that are dangerous for human rescuers. They can enter into gaps and move though small hole that difficult for human and even trained dog. This reduces the risk a human rescue team is exposed to and allows them to plan the rescue more effectively.
Paper Maps: Cell phones and computers do not always work in emergency situations. Invest in a current paper map of the general area.
All around the world, there are thousands upon thousands of natural hazardous events that occur during ones’ day, week, and even lifetime. In fact, within the past couple of years, natural hazard events have become more and more frequent as the years go by and have permanently changed millions of lives due to great loss. In this journal assignment, I chose a weather related event such as Hurricane Katrina and an internal process such as the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. Thus, in this paper I will discuss the importance of each event and how they made an impact on society, as well as how each event has some major differences when it comes to the characteristics, environmental impacts, and where/when, etc.
Communications is fundamental in any plan. During terrorist incidents it crucial to get accurate information to the public. This information allows for individuals to make well-informed decisions in times of disaster. Research has shown according to Newman and Clarke (2008), that the victims of sudden disasters do not panic and if they do, the panic is short-lived. Rather, victims try to help each other. Emergency managers need the media to explain to the public the current situation as it is happening, although during a disaster a growing number of people get their news from social media. “This is why major disaster management centers maintain close links with the press: to make sure that the coverage is accurate, that it does not exaggerate
Furthermore, real-time task allocations techniques are needed, to distribute tasks to rescue robots in a team in order to have multiple robots work effectively together to achieve the rescue tasks at hand. The development and incorporation of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms will also allow a single robot, robot teams and human-robot teams to develop 3D maps of USAR scenes in order to locate victims within these cluttered environments.
If you don’t know already, an earthquake is a natural disaster. During an earthquake, the ground shakes and rolls, like the waves of the ocean. On top of that, some earthquakes can be really destructive. Buildings can get knocked down, fires can start, the street can open and close,
When catastrophes occur, many professionals respond, including insurance adjusters, engineers and volunteers. Despite this, some government agencies have stopped engineers from using the technology to respond to certain relief efforts. There are times when drone technology is the only logical resource available for use in areas where major utility services are corrupted or disabled. Although the devices are met with sporadic opposition, engineers are working to develop better drones for monitoring and responding to catastrophic