Instructions Regarding The Disaster Damage Assessment

djamal-soft الجمعة، 2 فبراير 2018
By Carolyn Nelson


The preliminary evaluation of calamities is normally the key step in the process of looking for the federal calamity declaration in assisting individuals as well as public entities to recover. In the wake of a calamity, the catastrophe specialists together with the local emergency managers as well as officials normally from two teams of the PDA which are the individual assistance as well as the public assistance teams to work on the disaster damage assessment.

Typically, the individual help teams assess ruins that have occurred in homes or other personal properties. However, they do not necessarily move from home to home. They usually obtain an overall review of the ruins in the village or county. The teams than help individual candidates with some rental assistance that is temporary. They also tend to provide help in basic repairs among other calamity related needs the insurance company does not cover.

Similarly, the PDA team that is supposed to estimate public ruins should visit the affected areas and evaluate the damage that has been done on infrastructure, for instance, the roads, hospitals, bridges, schools as well as any other non-profit infrastructure. The agency is then required to assist with the repairs, and if everything is done accordingly, normal operations will resume within a short period.

Therefore, before conducting formal impairment evaluations after a calamity, it is necessary to perform the preliminary damage assessment or PDA that is generally defined by FEMA (Federal emergency management agency). This is usually a joint evaluation that is mainly used to determine the magnitude as well as the impact of the catastrophe.

The team normally ensures that all local areas that have been hit by a calamity are visited and the evaluation of all wreckage done. More so, the cost of repairs is estimated, and anything else that may require immediate attention by FEMA is taken care of. Thus, the agency is very important as it helps people to go back to normal within a short time.

If the fiasco is small-scale and it has been confined to a small area of a hospital building or an office building. The estimation of wreckage will still be done. Then, the safety of a personnel is ensured as they all evacuate from the building and the first responder is activated on immediate effect.

Additionally, the PDA team will see to it that the area is restricted from entry until all safety measures are taken. An inspection will then be done by the agency to check whether the adjacent buildings have been affected as well. Also, all environmental controls connected to the structure will be disconnected from power feeds, air-handling systems, water supplies, transformers, etc.

After the evaluation, depending on the depth of the ruins, the team will decide the next course of action. For example, if a hotel building is completely ruined, they can decide to close the place down until all the repairs have been done so that the hotel can be reopened and normal operations resume.




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