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Friday, February 2, 2018

By Carolyn Nelson


The preliminary evaluation of calamities is normally the key step in the process of looking for the federal calamity declaration in assisting individuals as well as public entities to recover. In the wake of a calamity, the catastrophe specialists together with the local emergency managers as well as officials normally from two teams of the PDA which are the individual assistance as well as the public assistance teams to work on the disaster damage assessment.

Typically, the individual help teams assess ruins that have occurred in homes or other personal properties. However, they do not necessarily move from home to home. They usually obtain an overall review of the ruins in the village or county. The teams than help individual candidates with some rental assistance that is temporary. They also tend to provide help in basic repairs among other calamity related needs the insurance company does not cover.

Similarly, the PDA team that is supposed to estimate public ruins should visit the affected areas and evaluate the damage that has been done on infrastructure, for instance, the roads, hospitals, bridges, schools as well as any other non-profit infrastructure. The agency is then required to assist with the repairs, and if everything is done accordingly, normal operations will resume within a short period.

A PDA is normally the first step that should be done in case there has been a calamity. The PDA is normally defined by FEMA which is jointly conducted to assess how the ruins are and how they have impacted the people as well as other normal business operations. FEMA then tries to find solutions within the shortest time possible.

This agency team, as said earlier, will visit the local calamity relief applicants to view the ruins first-hand to evaluate the scope of impairment. This will help them to estimate the repair costs. The PDA will also help in identifying any other needs that may require attention immediately. More so, the assistance the agency offers helps the people to get back on their feet.

If the fiasco is small-scale and it has been confined to a small area of a hospital building or an office building. The estimation of wreckage will still be done. Then, the safety of a personnel is ensured as they all evacuate from the building and the first responder is activated on immediate effect.

On top of that, the entry to that particular building will be restricted until all dangers are eliminated. The PDA team will them ensure that it has assessed whether the wreckage has spread in case the calamity was caused by fire. The water supply, electricity supply, transformers, power feeds as well as other environmental controls will be disconnected immediately.

Once the estimation has been completed, the agency will determine the next step depending on how far the ruins happened. For instance, a building will be closed down for some time until all repairs have been completed. It will then be reopened, and the personnel will continue with their work as usual after the fiasco.




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