Response to the Joplin Tornado

This assignment should take about 3 hours to complete. The purpose of this assignment is to learn about the emergency response and short-term recovery in the first year following the 2011 Joplin Missouri Tornado.

Write short answers to the following questions. (A few sentences for each question is sufficient.)

3a. What were the most critical tasks during the first day of the emergency response?

3b. What were some of the major challenges faced by first responders during the immediate emergency response?

3c. What were some of the challenges for emergency managers during the first days of the response?

3d. What were some of the major challenges during the first year of recovery?

3e. What were some of the successes achieved during the first year of recovery?

Videos:

1. Video: Anatomy of an Emergency

https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/videos/79381

2. Video: Joplin Tornado Survivor

https://www.fema.gov/ar/media-library/assets/videos/77137

3. Video: Joplin Starts Recovery

https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/videos/77099

4. Video: St. John's Medical Center Recovery

https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/videos/77173

5. Video: A Year after Joplin's Tornado, Disaster's 'Immensity' Still a Challenge

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science-jan-june12-joplin_05-22/

Reading:

Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2011). The response to the 2011 Joplin, Missouri, tornado: Lessons learned study. Washington, DC: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Retrieved from Here