SOS
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This cartoon is the brilliant takes on how emergency situations are handled by bureaucratic organizations. Here, the only responses of the bureaucrat to a person in distress are either the literal use of the instruction manual as a rescue device or the conversion of the SOS signals into paragraphs of instructions and regulations. This is what Merton would call “trained incapacity.”
Rozantsev, V.
Rutgers
Rutgers
1970s
Rutgers
Source: Holzer, M., Illiash, I., Gabrielian, V., & Kuznestsova, L. (2010). Red Tape from Red Square:Bureaucratic Commentary in Soviet Graphic Satirical Art. Poughkeepsie, NY: NetPublications
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Red-Tape-Square-Bureaucratic-Commentary/dp/0942942116">Amazon</a>
Medium: Poster
Russian
Artwork
Art, Satire, Cartoons, Bureaucracy, SOS, Trained Incapacity, Emergency
Russia
Hurricane Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the United States. An estimated 1,836 people died in the hurricane and the flooding that followed in late August 2005, and millions of others were left homeless along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans, which experienced the highest death toll.
Officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have said Katrina was the most destructive storm to strike the United States. It ranks sixth overall in strength of recorded Atlantic hurricanes. It was also a very large storm; at its peak, maximum winds stretched 25 to 30 nautical miles and its extremely wide swath of hurricane force winds extended at least 75 nautical miles to the east from the center.
It is a failure case of emergency management. Miscommunication between federal and state government brought slow response. Therefore, the federal government reconsidered and reformed the emergency system through the case of Katrina.
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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NASA
28 August 2005.
Jeff Schmaltz
Source: Zimmermann, K. A. (2012, August 20). Hurricane Katrina: Facts, Damage & Aftermath. Live Science. Retrieved February 10, 2013, from <a href="http://bit.ly/RwC7P0">http://bit.ly/RwC7P0</a>
Link: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Hurricane_Katrina_August_28_2005_NASA.jpg/260px-Hurricane_Katrina_August_28_2005_NASA.jpg">Hurricane Katrina at peak strength</a>
Medium: Photograph
English
Natural Disaster
Disaster, Emergency, Hurricanes, Katrina, Security
New Orleans
Federal Emergency Management Agency
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"The Federal Emergency Management Agency is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all domestic disasters, whether natural or man-made, including acts of terror.
President Carter's 1979 executive order merged many of the separate disaster-related responsibilities into the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Among other agencies, FEMA absorbed: the Federal Insurance Administration, the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration, the National Weather Service Community Preparedness Program, the Federal Preparedness Agency of the General Services Administration and the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration activities from HUD. Civil defense responsibilities were also transferred to the new agency from the Defense Department's Defense Civil Preparedness Agency.
In 2001, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11th focused the agency on issues of national preparedness and homeland security, and tested the agency in unprecedented ways. The agency coordinated its activities with the newly formed Office of Homeland Security, and FEMA's Office of National Preparedness was given responsibility for helping to ensure that the nation's first responders were trained and equipped to deal with weapons of mass destruction.
In March 2003, FEMA joined 22 other federal agencies, programs and offices in becoming the Department of Homeland Security. The new department, headed by Secretary Tom Ridge, brought a coordinated approach to national security from emergencies and disasters - both natural and man-made.
On October 4, 2006, President George W. Bush signed into law the Post-Katrina Emergency Reform Act. The act significantly reorganized FEMA, provided it substantial new authority to remedy gaps that became apparent in the response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, the most devastating natural disaster in U.S. history, and included a more robust preparedness mission for FEMA.
As of October 8, 2011, FEMA has 7,474 employees across the country – at Headquarters, the ten regional offices, the National Emergency Training Center, Center for Domestic Preparedness/Noble Training Center and other locations."
FEMA
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FEMA
No date given
FEMA
Source: About the Agency. (2012, October 14). Federal Emergency Management Agency. Retrieved, February 10, 2013, from <a href="http://www.fema.gov/about">http://www.fema.gov/about</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Emergency_Management_Agency">Wikipedia</a>
Medium: Logo, Link: FEMA logo
English
Organization
DHS, Emergency, FEMA, Security, Terrorism
United States