Emergency Operation Plan

Running Head: EMERGENCY OPERATION PLAN
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Introduction
The key role of the Kabul City Emergency operations plan is facilitating the development
of a comprehensive and effective emergency management scheme. This plan establishes a well-
coordinated, systematic and significant service delivery in the response and mitigation of
emergency impacts thus minimizing loss and damage, preserving life that would be lost,
provision of the necessary assistance and the establishment of a recovery system which will be
key in restoring the community in the town to its initial as indicated in chapter 2 of The National
Strategy for Homeland Security. The Kabul jurisdiction plan thus illustrates on what is done by
who, when and how in essence of mitigating, preparing, responding and recovering from impacts
of natural and technological disasters. Therefore this plan describes clearly the emergency
response of Kabul city emergency response organization by the assignment of responsibilities
regarding the different tasks in the emergency. Various specific functional annexes have been
outlined to specify the task to be completed by each party. The core audience who the plan is
addressed to include the city governor and the executives, the emergency management staff, the
heads to various departments and agencies and the leaders of local volunteer organizations and
companies which tend to support the emergency operations in fully state and the others who may
have an interest to take part in the mitigation, preparedness, response and the recovery efforts to
the inclusion of the whole community.
The situation of Kabul city
Kabul city being of the largest towns in Afghanistan is exposed to various hazards. The
hazards have the capability of causing insecurity and disruption to the community in the city thus
resulting in different casualties with varying degrees and damages. However, the hazard which

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may affect the town may either be natural or technological. The category entails hazards which
tend to be meteorological such as hurricanes, earthquake, forest fires, floods, and tornadoes. The
city has also considered the threat of terrorism-related chemical biological nuclear explosive
instance as among the disasters which would advance from the hazardous material spills,
transport accidents and civil disorders in the city
It is the sole responsibility of the Kabul city-county government to undertake an effective
emergency management in the protection of people’s lives and property from the hazardous
impacts which may occur at any time. Moreover, help will be requested from the State
government if the magnitude and intensity of the emergency exceed the local governments
potential together with the normal mutual aid in the mitigation and responding to the emergency.
The assistance accorded by the state is through the emergency management assistance compact.
However, the federal state also may offer aid to the state government under requests from the
city government or orders by the president. The basis of this is that before the outside aids get
involved, local resources will be allocated to the emergency first. The plan thus entails the
activities before, during and after the operations of the emergency in Kabul city as in chapter 3 of
National Fire Protection Association Standards 1600 National Fire Protection Association
Standards
The phases of emergency management
There are distinct phases in the jurisdiction of the emergency plan.
Mitigation; this entails all the acts which tend to prevent an emergency or minimize the
possibility of the emergency from happening and also reduces the impacts of the emergency.
Mitigation activities usually take place in the plan prior to and after the occurrence of the

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emergency. Such mitigation activities by Kabul city is the buying of fire and flood insurance for
the households. Hence mitigation activities are long-term acts which will reduce the impacts of
the unavoidable hazards in the city
Preparedness: This phase involves both training and planning as preparedness usually
develop the response potentiality. Preparedness activities develop the response capabilities
needed if an emergency should arise as indicated in FEMA, Comprehensive Preparedness Guide.
Planning and training are among the activities conducted during this phase. The activities here
are enacted by Kabul city in order to prepare and lower the impacts of the damages. Kabul city
council provides preparedness for threats such as the training of personnel and planning
Response. This phase is key is the actualization of the services detrimental to emergency
services during the crisis. Response activities usually enable the reduction of the magnitude and
intensity of damage and fasten recovery. Response activities by Kabul city council regarding
emergencies include warning people on the damages, rescuing and evacuating the people during
emergencies
Recovery: This phase entails both the long term and short term efforts for the restoring
of the victimized communities during hazardous occurrences in the city. Short-term operations
usually involve the efforts of the local government in the provision of essential needs to the
public. Moreover, long-term operations in the recovery phase usually emphasize on the
rebuilding of the community and residents of Kabul city into its initial state of operation or in an
improved state of affairs. The period of recovery is usually a good chance for the institution of
measures of mitigation especially the bones which are related to the emergency actions. The
planning in the recovery phase is usually key in the growing of the partnerships between