All Disasters are Local

"Tag! You're It! Medical and Health's Role in Emergency Management" is a 5-part mini-series of short, documentary style educational videos that are meant to inform California disaster response partners about the role of Medical and Health response during disasters. This professionally produced video series is focused around the medical and health response to the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, CA and features first person interviews with response personnel and also includes interviews with experienced local, regional, and state med/health experts. In episode #2, you will learn how the local medical and public health community mobilizes to respond to a disaster event including evacuating medical patients, sheltering medically fragile patients, and requesting further resources to help. You will learn the role of the Emergency Operations Centers, the Department Operations Centers, the Medical Health Operational Area Coordination program, and the Regional Disaster Medical Health Coordination program.