Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Protection Framework

We produce a very inexpensive audio device that is not reliant on wireless or electricity except for updates or recharge after long periods of time. This unit could be loaded with emergency information, general first aid instructions and other pertinent information in multiple languages and given to shelters or hotels that need to communicate in many languages on an emergency basis.

Our intelligence operatives have identified traits and habits that are easily identifiable and common to those persons seeking to engage in terrorist/ bioterrorist activities in the U.S. By training retired seniors and youth (college students), volunteer spotter networks may be trained and utilized to help identify potential terrorists in nearly every community. For reasons of security, I have not listed the terrorist ...more »

For many years, I helped church groups promote 72 Hour Emergency Kits for members. Far too many individuals believe that disaster will never happen to them. Other people have excuses such as a lack of funds or time. To my disbelief, there always seems to be those who think it is governments responsibility to rescue them as needed. If too many kit items are suggested, people tend to object to collecting, managing, & ...more »

Local food coops, farm-to-coop & school programs, urban farming (indoors & outdoors) all help to increase food security by having more foods grown closer to home ...while reducing exposure times for possible bioterrorist attack. I would add edible landscaping to the list to grow significant amounts of berries, fruits, & nuts closer to home. Such landscaping can be just as attractive as landscaping with non-edible plants, ...more »

One of the forum members, on this site, emailed me to tell me of his frustration because DHS, FEMA, or others were not rushing to buy his idea ...although he had no patent or scientific evidence that his idea actually works. As an inventor, with 63 inventions, my policy is to seek universities that will conduct research on my innovation and affirm (by scientific evidence) that my idea works, and provides some benefit. ...more »

During many emergencies family members may be easily separated, and the confusion or chaos during any disaster often makes it more difficult for families members to find each other. Each family needs to have a central rally point that is reasonably secure and relatively easy for each family member to reach, adjusted for individual means of transportation. Such a rally point starts with a safe location near a family's ...more »

What does everyone think about a Homeland Security Reserve comprised of Retired Police Officers like myself. This Reserve would unpaid but offered free travel and per-Diem while helping out with National Emergencies. There would probably have to be some sort of Physical Exam and limitations set but there is a very substantial amount of experience out there just going to waste. The Homeland Security Reserve would be ...more »

Just recently I thought of the idea of street signs with GPS coordinates printed below them showing that signs location in relation to the street name or address. A longitude & latitude location in degrees and seconds showing these locations just under addresses and street sign locations. A (SGPSLID) Stationary #GPS Location ID. This will help recuers pin point locations via GPS coordinates making it easier and ...more »

Over a period of 5 decades, I survived several major disasters because I had a complete 72 Hour Emergency Kit ...as I have posted on this forum. It seems that too many people believe they need no emergency kit since the government will rescue them. Another segment of our population cannot afford these kits even if they wanted them ... or they want to get by on the "cheap" hoping they will not meet with disaster. Thus, ...more »

In order to deal effectively with any planning failure, it is first necessary to understand how and why they typically occur. The primary, relevant failures are: 1) A failure to learn; 2) A failure to adapt; and 3) A failure to anticipate. Flaws causing emergency planning failures include: A) Lack of imagination; B) Faulty assumptions; C) Analysis paralysis; D) A desire to protect the status quo; E) "Turf" battles; ...more »

Homeland Security is about a collaborative national effort to secure the homeland from all-threats and all-hazards. National is used here in the sense of all levels of government: federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial; the public and private sectors; and the American people. All-threats and all-hazards is used in the sense of all intentional threats (crime, terrorism, war), natural (huricanes, earthquakes ...more »

Please read and follow Part 1 instructions, and proceed to acquire your Part 4 kit items. To wit: 13) Maps, vital documents & family photos, area maps, originals of birth certificates, Social Security cards, passport, and driver's license. All this plus other vital documents also on a document storage device. 14) Special Needs: Infant formula, diapers, pet food, cash/ traveler's checks, barter items (such as silver ...more »

Please read and follow the Part 1 instructions, and proceed to acquire your Part 3 kit items. To wit: 9. Food: 15 energy bars (5 per person day). If you believe you may be gone longer than 3 days, add appropriate dehydrated (light-weight) food items plus salt/ pepper. 10) Sanitation: Small, portable composting toilet and sanitation chemicals, along w/ toilet paper, moist towelettes, and plastic trash bags. 11) Tools: ...more »

Please read and follow the Part 1 instructions, and proceed to acquire your Part 2 kit items. To wit: 5) Warmth: Emergency/ space blanket, poncho, appropriate clothing for the weather, heavy socks, and hiking boots. 6) Cool: Shade cloth, hat, light weight clothing, flip-flops, and evaporative cooling neckerchief. 7) Shelter: Heavy duty tube-tent and ground cloth (or small tarp). 8) Water: Filter device, chemical ...more »

After 5 decades of using 72 Hour Kits during assorted emergencies, worldwide, I know that available lists of kit items are often incomplete and poorly organized. Thus, I am presenting a kit list in 4 parts with a suggestion that each part should be acquired every 3 months, so you have your complete kit within a year. Start with a backpack and rain cover for your backpack, and add these items by category ... each in ...more »

The Center for Advancement of Distance Education (CADE) and the Univ. of IL Chicago (UIC) have developed a disaster preparedness simulator to give advanced training to emergency managers. These simulators have an array of disaster scenarios, with synthetic environments, requiring command decisions by human operators in training. If FEMA does not already have one of these simulators, please seek industry/ foundation ...more »

In the midst of our efforts in emergency management, sometimes we can get lost in the minutia and lose sight of our primary mission...protecting the health and safety of people. We know that those who can help themselves will. As such, we are often faced with supporting those individuals that require additional assistance. I propose that: (1) we standardize a framework for thoroughly assessing the population composition ...more »

FEMA will have increasing problems with preparedness issues the longer high levels of unemployment and underemployment are sustained. People need adequate incomes to acquire 72 Hour Emergency Kits or engage in other preparedness activities. Entrepreneurs and their new businesses have long created most of the jobs in this nation, but they now have very little funding available. Bankers are making very few loans, and ...more »

We all live in a target rich nation with somewhat frequent natural disasters, and we have limited resources to prepare to deal with the resulting man-made or natural emergencies. In addition, we have added problems related to nepotism, political conflict, corrupt special interests, policy battles between our often extreme right and left viewpoints, and shortages of qualified/ skilled leaders. With 1,383 current members ...more »

Emergency preparedness funds are in very short supply. FEMA, with support elicited from Congress, needs to help assure that funds for local emergency preparedness efforts are actually used as intended. With funding shortages in almost every city and county, we need to prevent local politics from diverting preparedness funds for non-preparedness uses.

Aircraft loud speakers, known as Loud Mouth air-to-ground audio systems, allow pilots (in the air) to broadcast and give instructions to refugees on the ground. With an aircraft at 800 to 1,000 ft. in the air, these sound systems allow a person on the ground to hear the broadcast message as if they were in a movie theater with "surround-sound." I have used Loud Mouth units overseas, in major rescue operations, and my ...more »

Historically, the military has successfully used signal panels for effective battlefield communications. The VS-17 milspec fabric panel, 24 " x 70," is one example. Such panels are made to connect to other panels, with varied markings, to send messages and create so-called "conspicuity" (easy to see from the air). FEMA needs to develop an array of emergency panels to provide a way to send relief requests from the ground ...more »

Many youth groups have periodic scavenger hunts. If they were given lists of 72 Hour Emergency Kit items, these items could provide the basis of a good scavenger hunt. The idea would be to borrow or photograph as many kit items as possible from friends or families known to participants. A valid record of where kit items came from would be required. Buying items at a store would not be a valid means of acquiring a kit ...more »

CRUCIAL LESSONS HAVE BEEN LEARNED SINCE THE 9/11 TRAGEDY, BUT ELEVEN YEARS AFTER, AMERICA’S GENERAL POPULATION HAVE YET TO SEE A SET OF STANDARDIZED NATIONAL EMERGENCY PROCEDURES PUT INTO PLACE. WHY THE LACK OF THIS VITAL INFORMATION IS UNCLEAR, BUT, THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS KEEP GROWING WHO ARE FAMILIAR WITH FEMA’S INSTRUCTION. WITHIN ANY CITY, AND ON ANY GIVEN DAY, A TERRORIST ATTACK CAN OCCUR! IF A DIRTY BOMB OF ANTHRAX ...more »

Based on his U.S. Patent No. 5,402,021, Howard R. Johnson, an inventor from Blacksburg, Virginia, has been perfecting and testing a do-it-yourself electrical generator he says may be constructed for $100 (w/ parts from a hardware store). Said patent, dated 28 March 1995, has now expired, so the invention is available for public use. I suggest that FEMA work w/ Mr. Johnson to perfect and test his generator. If it does ...more »