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Parent topics

• Emergency management [r]: Preparation and response to natural disasters, accidents, and deliberate violence at both the routine local level and when local resources are overwhelmed ^[e]
• Emergency medical service [r]: The system of field medical support from an incident of injury or disease, to activation of the emergency service, to field and in-transit stabilization, until handoff to definitive medical care ^[e]
• Engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. ^[e]
• Firefighting [r]: The act of extinguishing dangerous fires. ^[e]
• Law enforcement [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Natural disaster [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Politics [r]: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. ^[e]
• Terrorism [r]: An act, with targets including civilians or civilian infrastructure, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Acute radiation syndrome [r]: Disease or death caused by whole-body irradiation, over a short period of time, with a significant quantity of penetrating radiation ^[e]
• Biological weapon [r]: Living organisms, or substances produced by living organisms, used as weapons to produce death or disease in human or agricultural populations ^[e]
• Accidental chemical releases [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chemical weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Epidemic [r]: Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease ^[e]
• Federal Emergency Management Agency [r]: Under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the lead operating agency for emergency response to disasters, accidents and attacks affecting the civilian population ^[e]
• Fire [r]: The rapid oxidation of a combustible material releasing heat, light, and various reaction products such as carbon dioxide and water. ^[e]
• Flood [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hazardous material [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mass casualty incident [r]: A medical emergency where the number and severity of victims is expected to overwhelm available resources, requiring a decision to defer treatment and provide comfort care only to those who have no realistic chance of survival ^[e]
• Multiple casualty incident [r]: A medical emergency situation in which it will be necessary to institute a disaster response plan, but it is expected that it will be possible to treat all victims with available resources ^[e]
• Hurricane [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Hurricane (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Triage [r]: The process of sorting victims of disease or violence, so the greatest number can be helped with the available resources, and treatment prioritized to have the best chance of preserving life. ^[e]
• Radiological weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Accidental release source terms [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Counterterrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• HAZOP [r]: Add brief definition or description (Required by U.S. EPA)
• Risk Management Program [r]: Add brief definition or description (Required by U.S. EPA)