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This episode explores Community Lifelines and their role in emergency management. Lifelines identify the essential services that enable a community to survive, function, and recover following a disaster. We discuss how lifelines are interconnected, how disruptions can affect multiple services, and how emergency managers can use lifeline information to establish priorities and communicate community impacts. We also examine the collaboration required to stabilize and restore lifelines among government agencies, private-sector partners, infrastructure owners and operators, nonprofit organizations, and community stakeholders.<\/p>\n
Takeaways:<\/b><\/p>\n Summary:<\/b>\u00a0FEMA’s primary resource for understanding the Community Lifelines construct, including the seven lifelines, their components, and how they can be used to identify and communicate critical service impacts.<\/p>\n Resource:<\/b>\u00a0FEMA \u2013 Community Lifelines Summary:<\/b>\u00a0Describes the nation’s approach to disaster response and how federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, private-sector, and nonprofit partners coordinate resources and capabilities.<\/p>\n Resource:<\/b>\u00a0FEMA \u2013 National Response Framework Summary:<\/b>\u00a0Provides an introduction to the NRF, including its purpose, guiding principles, response structure, and the roles of partners involved in incident response.<\/p>\n Resource:<\/b>\u00a0Pacific Northwest National Laboratory \u2013 Overview of the NRF Summary:<\/b>\u00a0DHS fact sheet explaining the Community Lifeline Status System and how standardized lifeline information can improve situational awareness and support emergency management decision-making.<\/p>\n Resource:<\/b>\u00a0U.S. Department of Homeland Security \u2013 Community Lifeline Status System Summary:<\/b>\u00a0Explains FEMA’s Community Lifelines construct from a water-sector perspective and how lifelines can help communities understand and communicate impacts to critical water infrastructure and services.<\/p>\n\n
Community Lifelines<\/b><\/h3>\n
FEMA \u2013 Community Lifelines<\/a><\/p>\nNational Response Framework<\/b><\/h3>\n
FEMA \u2013 National Response Framework<\/a><\/p>\nOverview of the National Response Framework<\/b><\/h3>\n
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory \u2013 Overview of the NRF<\/a><\/p>\nCommunity Lifeline Status System<\/b><\/h3>\n
DHS \u2013 Community Lifeline Status System<\/a><\/p>\nEPA Community Lifelines Construct<\/b><\/h3>\n