Citizens Support Network Protecting the Elderly from Disasters Usfa Fema Form

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[PrepTalks Theme Playing] Hello, it's so great to be amongst people who are dedicating their lives to this issue of preparedness and response. And how we allocate the resources that we have in disasters, how we choose who gets the resources that you work so hard to to organize and to deploy, of course that is going to affect the outcome who gets those resources. And how you choose kind of where you target them is a question that involves a lot of value judgments and has sort of ethical dimensions. So in New Orleans for example in 2005 the levee failures after Hurricane Katrina surrounded this hospital, Memorial Medical Center. And the hospital had critical electrical equipment where? In its basement, yes. And of course the city is below sea level and vulnerable to flooding. So helicopters did start to arrive, but these helicopters could take maybe one or two patients at a time. And this hospital had about 250 patients, it had about 2,000 people inside of it doctors, nurses, staff, and