The two potential and hazardous scenarios that the authors envision for emergency management are fire and terrorism. Fire outbreak is a potential hazard that can affect every organization, company, or even private property. Fire safety is always a component of the designing and building safety. Fire can spread faster and incurs losses by consuming valuable assets, causing destruction, injuring and killing people and animals if not adequately managed. Fire accidents are one of the leading causes of loss of property and deaths in the world and fire outbreak is considered a dangerous scenario. Terrorism is another factor that puts people’s lives and their property at risk. It is the use of threatened violence to aiming at the political, religious, or ideological achievement. Different types of terrorism include civil disorder, political, and quasi-terrorism among others (Aloudat, Katina, & Roba, 7). The two factors are possible scenarios that require adequate preparations to curb them or reduce their adversities.
The major stakeholders in emergency management include the federal government, the state government, the Red Cross, information management support, and the industrial groups among others. The federal government should provide the necessary support to the states regarding financing and supply of personnel, and also the specialized detecting equipment (General Emergency Response Considerations, 23). Moreover, the police officers are in a better position to prevent the occurrence of terror activities. On fire accidents, the general public, building designers, and electricians are responsible for the prevention of the hazardous fire incidences in future. The stakeholders who can influence the changes emergency management is the federal government, the state government, and the other main policymakers (Subramaniam, 29). They have the power to influence the decisions that can lead to the reduction of risky incidences.
Several factors increase disasters that include haphazardly connected cables, floods, and porous borders among others. Also, the growing populations of people of varying socioeconomic, political, and religious backgrounds result in misunderstanding that can lead to the disadvantaged group radicalizing into terrorists. The porous border is a contributing factor because the terrorists can easily get into the country to carry out their criminal activities. Inability to respond by the rescue or recovery teams is what contributes to the loss of people and property (Wayland, 33). Less responsive institutions have become a contributing factor to vulnerabilities. Poverty has been evidently found a factor that increases vulnerability when disasters strike. Poor communities cannot afford to buy any supplies for preparations before the disasters hit and they further do not have money for recovery afterward. Lastly but not least, the poor policies that are put in place by concerned authorities can contribute to further vulnerabilities.
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