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Ramsey County │ Glossary <br />disaster-damaged public facilities and infrastructure. Organizations that provide essential public <br />services, such as schools, public utilities, medical facilities, museums, zoos, parks, houses of worship and <br />others may be eligible for Public Assistance grants. <br />The damage or losses must have been a direct result of the declared disaster and must have occurred <br />during the incident period specified in the declaration. <br />Public health and medical services: The capability of a jurisdiction to provide lifesaving medical <br />treatment via Emergency Medical Services and related operations and avoid additional disease and <br />injury by providing targeted public health, medical, and behavioral health support to all affected <br />populations. <br />Public information: Processes, procedures, and systems for communicating timely, accurate, and <br />accessible information on an incident's cause, size, and current situation, resources committed, and <br />other matters of general interest to the public, responders, and additional stakeholders (both directly <br />affected and indirectly affected). <br />Public Information Officer (PIO): A member of the Command Staff who serves as the conduit for <br />information to internal and external stakeholders, including the media or other organizations seeking <br />information directly from the incident or event. <br />Recovery: Timely restoration, strengthening, and revitalization of the infrastructure, housing, a <br />sustainable economy, and the health, social, cultural, historic, and environmental fabric of a given <br />community affected by a catastrophic incident. During recovery, restoration efforts occur concurrently <br />with regular operations and activities. The recovery period from an incident can be prolonged. <br />Response: Includes the core capabilities necessary to save lives, protect property and the environment, <br />and meet basic human needs after an incident has occurred. Response is focused on ensuring that <br />community can effectively respond to any threat or hazard, including those with cascading effects, with <br />an emphasis on saving and sustaining lives and stabilizing the incident as well as rapidly meeting basic <br />human needs, restoring basic services and community functionality, establishing a safe and secure <br />environment, and supporting the transition to recovery. <br />Resources: Personnel and major items of equipment, supplies, and facilities available or potentially <br />available for assignment to incident operations and for which status is maintained. Resources are <br />described by kind and type and may be used in operational support or supervisory capacities during an <br />incident or at an EOC. <br />Resource management: Those actions taken by a government to identify sources and obtain resources <br />needed to support disaster response activities, coordinate the supply, allocation, distribution, and <br />delivery of resources so that they arrive where and when most needed, and maintain accountability for <br />the resources used. <br />Risk: The likelihood that a threat will harm an asset with some severity of consequences. <br />Secondary hazard: A threat whose potential would be realized as the result of a triggering event that of <br />itself would constitute an emergency. For example, dam failure might be a secondary hazard associated <br />with earthquakes.