This week’s student intern guest blogger is Phil Marcus, a rising junior at James Madison University.
The title I’m blogging about, Emergency Response to Terrorism: Job Aid (ERT), was first printed in May of 2000. While I don’t know how well it was selling at the time, I’m sure that sales greatly rose after 9-11.
This little comb-bound booklet goes into great detail about the steps and procedures that should be taken to deal with a terrorist attack. Whether toxic or explosive, this publication covers it all. As we well know, acts of terrorism can occur at any time, and without much warning.
A very important point is that Emergency Response to Terrorism: Job Aid, goes into detail about how to preserve evidence from an act of terrorism. This surely is an asset, because without evidence no crimes can be traced back to the responsible party. Almost anything can be considered evidence, especially items such as the ‘black box’ from the 9-11 attacks that is carried in every airplane. If these boxes had not been found after 9-11, much of the information we have now on the attacks would have ever been known. The ERT deals with many similar issues.
I think the ERT is a must read for anyone interested in obtaining knowledge about how to deal with acts of terrorism – specifically how to respond, as a citizen, to an act of terrorism. Copies can be purchased on our website, reviewed at the FEMA Web site, or in libraries.
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