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Parent topics

• Disaster response [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Emergency management [r]: Preparation and response to natural disasters, accidents, and deliberate violence at both the routine local level and when local resources are overwhelmed ^[e]
• Emergency medical service [r]: The system of field medical support from an incident of injury or disease, to activation of the emergency service, to field and in-transit stabilization, until handoff to definitive medical care ^[e]
• Engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. ^[e]
• Firefighting [r]: The act of extinguishing dangerous fires. ^[e]
• Law enforcement [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Natural disaster [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Politics [r]: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. ^[e]
• Terrorism [r]: An act, with targets including civilians or civilian infrastructure, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Acute radiation syndrome [r]: Disease or death caused by whole-body irradiation, over a short period of time, with a significant quantity of penetrating radiation ^[e]
• Biological weapon [r]: Living organisms, or substances produced by living organisms, used as weapons to produce death or disease in human or agricultural populations ^[e]
• Accidental chemical releases [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chemical weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Epidemic [r]: Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease ^[e]
• Federal Emergency Management Agency [r]: Under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the lead operating agency for emergency response to disasters, accidents and attacks affecting the civilian population ^[e]
• Flood (weather) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hazardous material [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mass casualty incident [r]: A medical emergency where the number and severity of victims is expected to overwhelm available resources, requiring a decision to defer treatment and provide comfort care only to those who have no realistic chance of survival ^[e]
• Medical Reserve Corps [r]: A federally-sponsored, community-organized U.S. volunteer organization that assists in continuing public health and in disaster response ^[e]
• Multiple casualty incident [r]: A medical emergency situation in which it will be necessary to institute a disaster response plan, but it is expected that it will be possible to treat all victims with available resources ^[e]
• Hurricane (weather) [r]: A large, destructive storm in the Western Hemisphere, comparable to cyclones in South Asia and typhoons in the Pacific; may have local tornadoes and higher winds, but the main concern is extensive flooding and winds up to 280 kmph/175 mph ^[e]
• Tornado (weather) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Triage [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Accidental release source terms [r]: Add brief definition or description

• HAZOP [r]: Add brief definition or description (Required by U.S. EPA)
• Risk Management Program [r]: Add brief definition or description (Required by U.S. EPA)
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security [r]: Add brief definition or description

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• Naval infantry [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Federal Emergency Management Agency [r]: Under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the lead operating agency for emergency response to disasters, accidents and attacks affecting the civilian population ^[e]