** Alerting and Coordination Network ( ACN )-The Alerting and Coordination Network ( ACN ) provides a stable emergency voice communications network connecting telecommunications service providers ’ Emergency Operations Centers ( EOCs ) and Network Operations Centers ( NOCs ) to support national security and emergency preparedness ( NS / EP ) telecommunications network restoration coordination, transmission of telecommunications requirements and priorities, and incident reporting when the Public Switched Network ( PSN ) is inoperable, stressed or congested.

Because the U. S. Department of Homeland Security includes the Federal Emergency Management Agency, it also has responsibility for preparedness, response, and recovery to natural disasters.

Emergency management professionals testified that funds for preparedness for natural hazards was given less priority than preparations for counter terrorism measures.

USACE supports the United States ' Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) through its security planning, force protection, research and development, disaster preparedness efforts, and quick response to emergencies and disasters.

Until 2001 the Home Office carried out emergency preparedness planning through its Emergency Planning Division, which in turn replaced the Home Defence and Emergency Services Division.

* The 911 / Emergency RoundTable for discussion of emergency preparedness ... and a forum set up for quick mobilization during emergencies

* Provincial Emergency Program, the emergency preparedness program in the Province of British Columbia, Canada

Disaster preparedness has been a focus of the administration, with Governor Purdue having worked with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency to implement Ready Georgia, a campaign launched in 2008 to increase disaster preparedness throughout the state.

( Official site ) The Swedish Emergency Management Agency was established on 1 July 2002, with the purpose of coordinating work on the preparedness of society to manage serious crises.

Rex 84 was written by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, who was both National Security Council White House Aide, and NSC liaison to the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ), and John Brinkerhoff, the deputy director of " national preparedness " programs for the FEMA.

* Emergency Social Services program, under the Provincial Emergency Program, the emergency preparedness program in British Columbia, Canada

* Disaster preparedness – CDCC, BDCC, Sorsogon Emergency Rescue Team

* Disaster preparedness and Emergency Response Association

* Emergency Services Institute focusing on research, emergency preparedness and response in the event of community emergencies and disaster either natural or man-made.

Emergency preparedness safety measures such as:

Emergency management organizations often hold different names, such as " office of emergency preparedness " or " emergency management ", but perform the same function.

New Mexico supplied over $ 1 million to fund emergency preparedness and damage repair for victims and governor Susana Martinez requested additional funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

" Big government " positions they take include further construction of freeways, funding for embryonic stem cell research, an enhanced federal role in emergency preparedness for the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ), increased federal law enforcement on the border.

TRANSCAER is an acronym for Transportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response, which aims to promote emergency preparedness among first responders and communities for accidents that involve chemical releases.

* Emergency preparedness and Assistance-NCA works to save and protect lives in disaster situations.

The process of Emergency Management involves four phases: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

Organizations known to use ALE for Emergency management, disaster relief, ordinary communication or extraordinary situation response include: Red Cross, FEMA, Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, NATO, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United Nations, AT & T, Civil Air Patrol, SHARES, State of California Emergency Management Agency ( CalEMA ), other US States ' Offices of Emergency Services or Emergency Management Agencies, and Amateur Radio Emergency Service ( ARES ).

In response to this, Williams proclaimed a State of Emergency on April 21 and arrested 15 Black Power leaders.

The Emergency Response Team ( ERT ): Formed in 1992, ERT's primary mission is to provide tactical response to unlawful intrusions and other protective challenges related to the White House and its grounds.

FEMA's emergency response is based on small, decentralized teams trained in such areas as the National Disaster Medical System ( NDMS ), Urban Search and Rescue ( USAR ), Disaster Mortuary Operations Response Team ( DMORT ), Disaster Medical Assistance Team ( DMAT ), and Mobile Emergency Resource Support ( MERS ).

This event and FEMA's performance was reviewed by the National Academy of Public Administration in its February 1993 report " Coping With Catastrophe " which identified several basic paradigms in Emergency Management and FEMA administration that were causes of the failed response.

The Corps conducts its emergency response activities under two basic authorities — the Flood Control and Coastal Emergency Act (), and the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ().

Following the storm, U. S. Senator Mark Pryor had criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to the recovery and cleanup efforts.

Stillwater Emergency Rescue Squad provides Emergency Medical Services to the township, utilizing two full-size ambulances, and first response vehicles.

Primary emergency medical response is provided the Perinton Volunteer Ambulance Corps ( PVAC ) which provides Basic Life Support by trained Emergency Medical Technicians 24x7.

Emergency medical response is handled by Rostraver / West Newton Emergency Services.

The Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act was a regulating law, consisting of a mix of regulations and deregulation, which passed in response to OPEC price hikes and domestic price controls which effected the 1973 oil crisis in the United States.

* Emergency service response codes

The territories ( Emergency Service Zone ) covered by a single PSAP is based on the dispatch and response arrangements for the fire, police, and medical services for a particular area.

The poorly received Emergency Mayhem for the Wii utilizes the same core gameplay of the Crazy Taxi series, but adds additional elements in regards to driving emergency response vehicles.

The rooms in which emergency response operators work are called Emergency Control Centres ( ECCs ).

On that date the Musicians Emergency Fund, organized to furnish employment for musicians unable to obtain engagements during the depression and to provide relief for older musicians who lost their fortunes in the stock market crash, observed its 30th anniversary.

Botswana is one of the 15 focus countries for PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, and has received more than $ 230 million since the program began in January 2004 through September 2007.

As the threat of Cold War eased, a number of such civil defense organisations have been disbanded or mothballed ( as in the case of the Royal Observer Corps in the United Kingdom and the United States civil defense ), while others have changed their focuses into providing rescue services after natural disasters ( as for the State Emergency Service in Australia ).

* Emergency Management Portal-online resources for emergency planners and managers

The CCC operated an entirely separate division for members of federally recognized Indian tribes: the Indian Emergency Conservation Work, IECW, or CCC-ID.

Responding to favorable public opinion to alleviate unemployment Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, on 8 April 1935, which included continued funding for the CCC program through 31 March 1937.

Emergency treatment for acute alcohol poisoning strives to stabilize the patient and maintain a patent airway and respiration, while waiting for the alcohol to metabolize:

* United Nations Programme for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response United Nations programme covering the full disaster management cycle with usage of space technology

Precedence dialing is still done on the military phone networks, but using number combinations ( Example: Entering 93 before a number is a priority call ) rather than the separate tones and the Government Emergency Telecommunications Service has superseded Autovon for any civilian priority telco access.

The Royal Infirmary is the main Accident & Emergency hospital not just for Edinburgh but also Midlothian and East Lothian, and is the headquarters of NHS Lothian, making it a centric focus for Edinburgh and its hinterland.

Emergency management strategies can be employed by a government or organization to mitigate risks and prepare for consequences.

FAO established an Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases in 1994, focusing on the control of diseases like rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease and avian flu by helping governments coordinate their responses.

However, even at the height of the cold war, EMP protection had been completed for only 125 of the approximately 2, 771 radio stations in the Emergency Broadcast System.

The final attempt of the Hoover Administration to rescue the economy occurred in 1932 with the passage of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act, which authorized funds for public works programs and the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation ( RFC ).

In addition, Vehicle Emergency Escape ( VEE ) windows, developed by BAE Systems are currently being fielded for use on the M1114 uparmored HMMWV, with 1, 000 kits ordered.

In Maryland any person may request, via an Emergency Evaluation form, that another individual be evaluated against their will by an emergency room physician for involuntary admission.

* 1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

Women were also accepted into the military in the U. S. Women's Army Corps ( WACs ) and U. S. Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service ( WAVES ).

In 1956, under his direction, St-Laurent's Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson, helped solve the Suez Crisis in 1956 between Great Britain, France, Israel and Egypt, bringing forward St-Laurent's 1946 views on a U. N. military force in the form of the United Nations Emergency Force ( UNEF ) or peacekeeping.

* Emergency contraceptive pills ( ECPs )— sometimes simply referred to as emergency contraceptives ( ECs ) or the " morning-after pill "— are drugs intended to disrupt ovulation or fertilization, which are steps necessary for pregnancy ( contraceptives ).< ref name =" Trussell 2011 "> p. 121: Mechanism of actionCopper-releasing IUCsWhen used as a regular or emergency method of contraception, copper-releasing IUCs act primarily to prevent fertilization.