The Service Tree lists all services in "branched" groups, starting with the very general and moving to the very specific. Click on the name of any group name to see the sub-groups available within it. Click on a service code to see its details and the providers who offer that service.
Disaster Response Services
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Programs that provide temporary shelter in facilities that are designed or retrofitted to withstand tornado or hurricane force winds and sited away from potential debris hazards for people whose own homes or workplaces may be unsafe in extreme weather events. Included are single-purpose, stand-alone facilities specifically built as severe storm refuges and multipurpose buildings such as schools and hospitals with pre-identified safe areas that are opened to the public during severe weather.
Programs that provide services, often through one or more intermediaries, which enable two or more parties to communicate in emergency situations where normal means of communication are unavailable. Included are individuals (such as amateur radio or CB operators) and organizations (such as Amateur Radio Emergency Service) that provide alternative communications channels following a major disaster or large-scale emergency that disrupts the normal functioning of a community.
Post Disaster Emergency Medical Care
Programs that provide immediate, short-term assistance for individuals who have been injured during a major disaster or large-scale emergency that disrupts the normal functioning of a community. Services may be provided at temporary facilities that have been established in or near the affected area or at sites where injured individuals have assembled and include on-site triage, rapid emergency care of life threatening conditions, sequential triage and timely evacuation of patients, when necessary.
Post Disaster Mortality Management
Programs that are responsible for the collection, identification, storage and release or other disposition of human remains in a mass casualty situation following a major disaster or large-scale emergency that disrupts the normal functioning of a community.
Individuals and organizations that train and make available to the community, dogs who have been certified for search and rescue work following an earthquake, tornado, avalanche, mudslide, cave-in or other disaster in which people are buried in mud, snow or the debris of collapsed buildings. Some disaster dogs are trained to work in water and are called in to help locate people who have drowned. Others, called cadaver dogs, are trained for search and recovery operations for deceased victims. Search dog teams provide support for search and rescue operations in a variety of environments.