The Department of Public Works: a community emergency organization.
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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Report series (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 3Publication details: DEC 1968Description: 75p., 11 figsReport number: OCD-PS-64-46; WORK-UNIT-2651A; AcademicSubject: Disaster planningSubject: Emergency managementSubject: Emergency operationsSubject: The typical Department of Public Works is a highly bureaucratic, public organization responsible for designing, constructing, and maintaining city property and certain services to the general public. It possesses specialized disaster relevant engineering and maintenance skills, extensive physical resources and a fairly well developed radio communication system. Most departments are not active in community warning and pre-impact activity. They become most heavily involved after impact and remain so until well into the rehabilitation phase. The department carries out its pre-defined emergency tasks with its normal structure. The pre-emergency links which the public works department maintains with other organizations serve as an important basis for the efficient passage of information, personnel, and resources critical for the solution of disaster generated problems. The department often assumes the role of "community coordinator" when the major demands on the community require engineering skills for their solution
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The typical Department of Public Works is a highly bureaucratic, public organization responsible for designing, constructing, and maintaining city property and certain services to the general public. It possesses specialized disaster relevant engineering and maintenance skills, extensive physical resources and a fairly well developed radio communication system. Most departments are not active in community warning and pre-impact activity. They become most heavily involved after impact and remain so until well into the rehabilitation phase. The department carries out its pre-defined emergency tasks with its normal structure. The pre-emergency links which the public works department maintains with other organizations serve as an important basis for the efficient passage of information, personnel, and resources critical for the solution of disaster generated problems. The department often assumes the role of "community coordinator" when the major demands on the community require engineering skills for their solution
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