Read Chapter 1 (Understanding Public Response to Alerts and Warnings) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2018) book Emergency Alert and Warning Systems: Current Knowledge and Future Research Directions and the article by DeYoung et al. (2019). https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/24935/chapter/3
- Warnings
Using specific citations from the reading, describe some of the activities that people generally engage in after receiving warning information and before initiating protective actions. Is it a stimulus/response relationship (immediate compliance with information) or a process that results in action or inaction? Explain. Explain how these processes likely worked in an event such as the mistaken Hawaii Missile warning (See DeYoung et al., 2019 article - eReserves)
- Evacuations
Use The National Governors Association Guide to Mass Evacuations ,Pinellas County, FL (2018) Hurricane Irma After-Action Report (Read the Executive summary, Event overview, Warning and evacuation, Healthcare facilities, and Sheltering section of the report p. 1-16) and the article by Damonoske (2017).
https://www.nga.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/GovGuideMassEvacuation.pdf and https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/28/546721363/why-didn-t-officials-order-the-evacuation-of-houston
Why Didn't Officials Order the Evacuation of Houston? to address the following:
Use evidence from the three readings to discuss the key aspects of evacuation (NGA Report) for critical incident response. Use the second (Hurricane Irma - 2017) and third (Hurricane Harvey -2017) readings to discuss some of the real-world issues in ordering evacuations. What are the lessons learned?