Disaster teams can be maintained by government agencies and private organizations, with diverse members trained to respond to various disasters. Equipment is kept in a central location, and teams can travel to the site or be loaned to other communities in need.
A disaster team is a group of individuals who can quickly mobilize to respond to a disaster of any scale. Disaster teams can be maintained by government agencies responsible for disaster response, along with private humanitarian organizations who want to be able to provide assistance on the ground during disasters. Members of a disaster team can be quite diverse, from truck drivers to surgeons, and people interested in joining a disaster team can get information from community organizations and agencies.
Members of a disaster team undergo an initial training session that prepares them to respond to a variety of disasters, including natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and landslides, as well as nuclear disasters and public health issues such as outbreaks. of diseases. Disaster teams can also handle terrorism responses and other emergency situations. Once trained, team members are expected to attend periodic refresher sessions to keep their skills sharp.
A disaster team can be generalized or specialized. Some are staffed by a small, highly mobile group of specialists who perform tasks such as animal rescue, dead body identification, etc., while others include a much larger team that can provide a variety of services.
Many disaster teams include members who have regular careers that can be temporarily suspended to allow them to respond to a disaster. For example, Mortuary Disaster Operational Response Team (DMORT) members include professionals working in the funeral industry who have agreed to suspend operations in their business when asked to do so. Disaster team members can include law enforcement professionals, scientists, heavy equipment operators, demolition specialists, veterinarians, and a wide variety of other qualified professionals.
Disaster response equipment is classically kept in a containerized format in a central location so it can be accessed easily. Disaster team members can travel to the equipment and deploy with it, or travel separately to the disaster site to respond. Equipment typically includes everything people might need, from mobile surgery trucks with fully equipped hospital rooms to portable kitchens that can be used to prepare food for team members; if needed in a disaster response, it will be included in the equipment, under the operational assumption that the necessary equipment may be difficult or impossible to obtain during a disaster response.
Many cities maintain a disaster team as part of their disaster preparedness plan. Team members are trained to respond to incidents in their hometown, and the disaster team can be loaned to a community in need by special arrangement or if team members want to volunteer. For example, disaster teams from communities around the world arrived in Southeast Asia after the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in 2004, providing services ranging from building emergency housing to identifying the dead.
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