Emergency Response

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-009290",
  "term": "Emergency Response",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Emergency Response involves the immediate actions taken to respond to a disaster. These actions include, but are not limited to, providing mobile telecommunications, operational support, power generation, search and rescue, and medical life saving actions.\n\n2. Activities that address the short-term, direct effects of an incident. Response includes immediate actions to save lives, protect property, and meet basic human needs. Response also includes the execution of emergency operations plans and of mitigation activities designed to limit the loss of life, personal injury, property damage, and other unfavorable outcomes. As indicated by the situation, response activities include applying intelligence and other information to lessen the effects or consequences of an incident; increased security operations; continuing investigations into nature and source of the threat; ongoing public health and agricultural surveillance and testing processes; immunizations, isolation, or quarantine; and specific law enforcement operations aimed at preempting, interdicting, or disrupting illegal activity, and apprehending actual perpetrators and bringing them to justice.\n\n3. A response action to situations that may cause immediate and serious harm to people or the environment.\n\n4. See http://www.epa.gov/oem/content/er_cleanup.htm. The U.S. EPA's Emergency Response (ER) Program coordinates and implements a wide range of activities to ensure that adequate and timely response measures are taken in communities affected by hazardous substances and oil releases where state and local first responder capabilities have been exceeded or where additional support is needed.",
  "abbreviation": "ER",
  "subject": "Health and safety",
  "references": [
    "EPA BRM",
    "FEMA",
    "Superfund for Students and Teachers Glossary",
    "Superfund Acronyms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/emergency-response/"
}