ESO Disaster Planning & Business Continuity

There are numerous stories about a fire breaking out in a fire station, a flood washing into the fire house, the tornado that leveled the fire station or the ambulance that was destroyed in an accident. How many emergency service organizations (ESOs) are capable of rebounding from such an incident?

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What do you consider an emergency?
Review your disaster plan
Establish procedures during disasters
Warn of impending disasters
Creating a disaster plan
Organizational succession plan
Communicate with members' families
Protecting family and community
Backup location
Who covers your calls
Fighting fires without a communication system
Dispatching without radios
Back up your data regularly
Lightning protection
Back-up computers
Back-up generator
Assets are in a flood plain
Locate assets after windstorm or similar event and suffer losses
Can’t access your building
Conduct a threat assessment of your operations
Windstorm affect your facility
Fire or explosion at your facility
Facility flooded
Lightning strike and related impact/ damage/outage
Unable to assemble members/staff to respond
Telecommunication system failure
Computer hardware malfunctions and outage
Power outage at your facility