Disaster 002
Disaster 002 : (DES Definition): The occurrence or imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property, or significant adverse impact on the environment, resulting from any natural or technological hazards, including but not limited to fire, flood, earthquake, wind, storm, hazardous material incident, water contamination requiring emergency action to avert danger or damage, epidemic, air contamination, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, civil disturbance, or hostile military or paramilitary action. For the purpose of state or federal disaster declarations, the term disaster generally falls into one of two categories relative to the level of severity and impact on local and state resources, they are: Major - likely to require immediate state assistance supplemented by limited federal resources, if necessary, to supplement intra-state efforts and resources; and, Catastrophic - will require immediate and massive state and federal assistance in both the response and recovery aspects. Local government's adaptation of the definition of a disaster, denotes an event which threatens to or actually does inflict damage to people or property, and is, or is likely to be, beyond the capability of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of a local government, thereby, requiring the augmentation of resources through state-directed assistance
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