Thursday, November 2, 2023

Can the feds help? 5 things to know about disaster communications and care

https://www.ems1.com/ems-products/incident-management/articles/can-the-feds-help-5-things-to-know-about-disaster-communications-and-care-n8JXNNVuvB3uDiYO/

this article does not say too much

in usa the 1,800 civilian hospitals have approx 100,000 beds

note - fema does not own or operate any police cars, fire trucks,
ambulances, nor rescue trucks - (except for less than a dozen vehicles
at Mt Weather in VA and maybe at FEMA HQ in DC wherever it is)

the DMATs and USAR teams are all staffed by on-call local public
safety workers - so any time they are activated - they are stripping
some area of safety workers

FEMA has a total staffing of 22,000 per wikipedia - but that sounds
preposterous - HQ might have 200 people - and each of the dozen
regions might have 50 people each - so thats around 1,000 fulltime
employees - the rest might be part time workers that respond to
hurricanes and hand out paperwork after the storm has stopped

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