2010 FEMA Emergency Management Institute EMI Training Courses: Emergency Support Functions (ESFs) of the National Response Framework (CD-ROM)

This unique electronic book on CD-ROM has a complete reproduction of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute (EMI) training course manuals, the fifteen Emergency Support Function (ESFs) of the National Response Framework. The functions included in these courses are: Transportation, Communications, Public Works and Engineering, Firefighting, Emergency Management, Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and Human Services, Logistics Management and Resource Support, Public Health and Medical Services, Search and Rescue, Oil and Hazardous Materials Response, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Energy, and Public Safety and Security. The National Response Framework (NRF) presents the guiding principles that enable all response partners to prepare for and provide a unified national response to disasters and emergencies from the smallest incident to the largest catastrophe. As part of the NRF, Emergency Support Functions (ESFs) are primary mechanisms at the operational level used to organize and provide assistance. This series of courses is designed to overview each of the 15 ESFs. At the end of each course, students will be able to: Describe the overall purpose and scope of ESF #1; Identify the supplemental assistance ESF #1 provides to State, tribal, and local governments; Identify typical actions accomplished by ESF #1 resources and teams; Describe the types of partnerships formed between ESF #1 and other response agencies and organizations. This course is intended for government executives, private-sector and nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders, and emergency management practitioners. This includes senior elected and appointed leaders, such as Federal department or agency heads, State Governors, mayors, tribal leaders, and city or county officials those who have a responsibility to provide for effective response. In addition, as a bonus, there are reproductions of over 140 vital current and legacy FEMA Emergency Management Institute (EMI) training course manuals - instructor guides and student manuals, with PDF conversions of web-based interactive course material. The documents cover categories including Incident Command System (ICS), National Incident Management System (NIMS), National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), National Response Framework (NRF), continuity of operations, Emergency Operations Center (EOC), Emergency Support Function (ESF), exercises, emergency preparedness, hazardous materials, disaster assistance and individual assistance, earthquakes, animals in disasters, points of distribution (PODs), grants and eGrants, deployment, principles of emergency management, volunteers, radiological emergencies, Multiagency Coordination Systems, and more. This CD-ROM is packed with over 18,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. Advanced search and indexing features are built into our reproduction, providing a complete full-text index. This enables the user to search all the files on the disk at one time for words or phrases using just one search command! The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection. Our news and educational discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading.