| Disasters can strike anywhere and at anytime. | | | | management committees can't take the risk of |
| The non-predictable nature of disaster results in | | | | further destruction and the loss of lives. In |
| poor and often times non-existent emergency | | | | earthquake prone areas, affected people are |
| measures to deal with emergencies. The situation | | | | sometimes taken to emergency shelters that are |
| is especially worse in poor and developing | | | | situated away from the affected areas as roads |
| countries where emergency management | | | | and other infrastructure is badly damaged in most |
| infrastructure is virtually non-existent. However, in | | | | cases. |
| developed countries, there are ample facilities to | | | | Emergency shelters for areas affected by wild |
| deal with any emergency. | | | | fires are relatively smaller as compared to other |
| There are many types of disasters. In fact, the | | | | disaster zones. The area that comes under fire is |
| complexity of disasters is a big factor in | | | | usually much smaller as compared to an area |
| determining the response to any event and the | | | | affected by floods or earthquakes. |
| time, which require energy and financial sources to | | | | Tornadoes and windstorms also do not affect |
| cater them. Following are some of the most | | | | large swathes of a region and only impact a small |
| common type of disasters.o Floodso | | | | area. Tornadoes, in specific, only cause damage |
| Earthquakeso Fireo Tornadoes and other climatic | | | | where the wind funnel touches the ground. |
| disasterso Chemical or nuclear explosion or | | | | However, emergency shelters for tornadoes, are |
| disaster | | | | the most common ones and almost every house |
| Floods constitute the most common type of | | | | in a tornado-prone area has a small emergency |
| disaster and there have been a number of | | | | shelter located in the basement of the house. |
| measures that are undertaken to avoid any | | | | Nuclear or chemical disasters affect a large area |
| massive damage. The first line of defense against | | | | and are one of the most dangerous situations. |
| a flood is a speedy evacuation of those trapped | | | | Nuclear explosion or any leakage or disaster in a |
| in their homes and businesses, to higher grounds. | | | | nuclear facility can damage thousands of square |
| This evacuation is also accompanied by their | | | | kilometers of area. As the region of impact is |
| shifting to emergency shelters. These emergency | | | | higher, so are the disaster management |
| shelters are special facility centres where every | | | | measures. Emergency shelters for nuclear |
| possible treatment as well as accommodation | | | | radiation are present in some major metropolitan |
| facility is extended to the affected. They are | | | | areas where people can take refuge to avoid |
| generally established in government buildings with | | | | exposure to dangerous radiations. However, |
| large rooms and halls to house as many people as | | | | seepage in a nuclear or chemical plant might result |
| possible. | | | | in evacuation of the whole population to safe |
| Similarly, in the case of an earthquake, | | | | places. They would most probably be placed in |
| emergency shelters are established in tents and | | | | especially designed emergency shelters where a |
| earthquake-proof buildings. That is because any | | | | complete decontamination exercise would be |
| other tremor can destroy a building and disaster | | | | carried out. |