2013 Moore - Oklahoma EF-5 Tornado Disaster Assignment

2013 Moore - Oklahoma EF-5 Tornado Disaster - Assignment Example This tornado was an EF-5, killing 24 populace, and over 100 people were rescued (National Weather Service, 2013). Some of these annexes included that of transportation that helped in movement and recovery of transportation infrastructure, communication that was responsible for restoration, protection and sustainment of the telecommunication infrastructure, public works and engineering that contracted support for life-saving and life-sustaining services, firefighting that coordinated firefighting services, emergency management that was responsible for the issuance of emergency, mission assignments, mass care, housing and human services annex, public health and medical services annex, oil and hazardous materials response, energy annex, search and rescue, public safety and finally security annex (Braden, 2014). Out of all those Emergency Support Function Annexes, the ones I considered the most difficult to implement in the aftermath of the EF-5 tornado in Moore include mass care, emergency, housing and human services annexe and that of oil and hazardous material annexe. The mass care, emergency, housing and human services annexe purpose is to establish a procedure for providing emergency first aid, shelter, victim registration, feeding, and bulk distribution. From the incident, it was reported that one thousand and fifty homes were destroyed, three hundred injured and kids and parents in parking lots searching for each other. It is evident, therefore, that the support function will experience difficulties providing shelter to all those homeless people most important children as it was also reported that the governor did not approve the idea of providing shelter for state schools in times of severe weather claiming that the funds required to do say beyond the government’s budget. Oil and hazardous material annexe purpose are to ensure that all efforts are done to reduce issues arising from hazardous materials, which could be a threat to the public. In the  tornado incident, it was reported that after a month later, the damage caused by the tornado was still widespread.