| Human beings can never live a life that is devoid | | | | Emergency-shelters for areas affected by wild |
| of any worries or emergency situations. Some | | | | fires are quite smaller as compared to other |
| events destroy the peace and tranquility and put | | | | disaster emergency shelters. The reason behind |
| humanity on defensive. The biggest example of | | | | this small scale of operations is that the area that |
| this natural game is the intensity of natural | | | | comes under fire is smaller than an area affected |
| disasters, as they can destroy all the social fabric | | | | by floods or earthquakes. Similarly, tornadoes and |
| of a society. Besides the fatalities and monetary | | | | windstorms do not affect a major chunk of |
| losses, disasters also put huge strains on the | | | | geography and only affects a small area. |
| emergency relief workers. In most cases, one | | | | Tornadoes only cause damage where the wind |
| has to deal with millions of displaced persons and | | | | funnel makes the landfall. Emergency-shelters for |
| have to arrange for their food and shelter. | | | | tornadoes are one of the most common ones as |
| The best possible way of helping these displaced | | | | every house in a tornado-prone area has a small |
| persons is through the establishment of an | | | | emergency-shelter located either in the basement |
| emergency shelter. These emergency shelters | | | | of the house or in the master bathroom. |
| are the places where displaced persons are given | | | | The biggest disasters take place when nuclear or |
| accommodation, food and medicine. Emergency | | | | chemical plants explode, or radioactive materials |
| shelters remain in the working condition until these | | | | leak into the atmosphere. Nuclear explosion or any |
| people are transferred to a better location or | | | | leakage or disaster in a nuclear facility can |
| their original dwellings are restored. | | | | damage thousands of square kilometres of area. |
| Floods are one of the worst types of disaster | | | | The affected area in these cases is quite huge, |
| and local authorities take a number of measures | | | | especially in the case of nuclear disaster as |
| to avert major damages. The first line of defense | | | | radiations travel very fast. |
| against a flood is an immediate evacuation of | | | | Emergency-shelters for nuclear radiation are not |
| people trapped in the flooded areas. These people | | | | present everywhere. In most cases, major |
| are later transported to emergency-shelters. | | | | metropolitan areas have a concentration of these |
| In the case of an earthquake, emergency-shelters | | | | shelters due to large population or in areas |
| can be setup in tents and earthquake-proof | | | | surrounding the nuclear plants. Emergency shelters |
| buildings. This precaution is necessary as any | | | | for these nuclear disasters are equipped with |
| other tremor or major earthquake can destroy a | | | | radiation-proof suits and equipment, among other |
| building. In earthquake prone areas, affected | | | | things. Similarly, these shelters are located |
| people are sometimes taken to | | | | underground to avoid exposure to radiations |
| emergency-shelters that are situated away from | | | | present in the air. Water filtration facility is also |
| the affected areas, as roads and other | | | | available in these emergency shelters. |
| infrastructure is badly damaged in most cases. | | | | |