The Four Phases Of 9/11 Attacks

The September 11th attacks in 2001 marked one of the toughest tragedies that the United States has faced. Following these attacks the United States has increased its security tremendously over the years to better protect the country from future attacks such as the one faced on that day 13 years ago. However, regardless of their attempts to strengthen the countries security, we’re still at high risk for a weapon of mass destruction attack. A weapon of mass destruction is ultimately defined as any weapon that is designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or their precursors. The United States has one of the biggest and most powerful military branches …show more content…
holds when it comes to terrorist attacks, the emergency response management teams play a huge role in the preparedness, planning, organization, and response when it comes to following up on an attack. The article, “The Four Phases of Emergency Management,” explains each of the four phases of emergency management, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery (Unknown Author, p.1). The first stage this article explains is mitigation, which refers to the measures that reduce the chance of an emergency happening, or reducing the damaging effects if an emergency does in fact take place (p.1). This stage ultimately creates safer communities by protecting the loss of life and/or property. The next stage is that of preparedness. According to the article, “4 Phases of Emergency Management,” preparedness is the stage that conducts plans and procedures that are designed to save the lives of the citizens in a community and to minimize the damage done following an emergency (Unknown Author, p.1). As stated in this article, “This is a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, evaluation and improvement activities to ensure effective coordination and the enhancement of capabilities to prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate the effects of natural disasters, acts of terrorism and other man-made disasters” (p.1). The next stage is that of response, which is the phase that includes the mobilization of necessary emergency services and first responders to the scene. This is basically the phase that includes the firefighters, police, ambulance crews, and first responders. This is ultimately the phase in which takes all of those plans and procedures and puts them into effect to save the lives of those affected by the disaster (p.1). The last phase is that of recovery. This is the phase that takes the actions to help return the community to its normal conditions. As stated in the