{"id":126168,"date":"2022-02-24T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168//?p=126168"},"modified":"2022-06-14T14:10:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T18:10:49","slug":"ucf-expert-on-emergency-management-its-all-about-helping-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168//ucf-expert-on-emergency-management-its-all-about-helping-people/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Expert on Emergency Management: It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u2019s All About Helping People"},"content":{"rendered":"
Managing large disasters involves having robust plans and moving resources quickly to the right place./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/n
Often, it also means giving people a way to find closure. After the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people in Haiti, UCF Associate Professor Abdul-Akeem Sadiq worked with a team to figure out how to manage all the unidentified bodies recovered from the rubble./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u201cMy colleagues and I developed a new strategy that involves taking photographs of the deceased, burying the deceased in shallow graves, and creating a numbering system that matches pictures of the deceased to their respective graves where they were temporarily buried,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u201cWhen a deceased individual is identified by their loved ones through the picture, his or her body can be exhumed from the corresponding grave and properly buried or cremated. This strategy helps to prevent burying unidentified bodies in mass graves and making it difficult for victims/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u2019 families to have closure./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/n
It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u2019s remembering that human beings are at the heart of disasters that motivates Sadiq, an emergency management expert who specializes in mass fatality incidents and in helping governments, companies, and nonprofits prepare for emergencies./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u201cI/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u2019m fueled by wanting to make a difference in people/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u2019s lives,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u201cMost of my publications provide practical recommendations to public, nonprofit, and private organizations with the hope that if those recommendations are implemented, they will lead to a better society./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/n
Sadiq recently published a study that looks at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Community Rating System (CRS) program and why less than 5% of eligible communities participate. The voluntary program is aimed at reducing flood impacts./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u201cWe found that a major obstacle to participating in the CRS is a lack of resources, like the staff needed to fill out the paperwork and apply to join the CRS,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u201d Sadiq says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u201cSo, we recommended that FEMA should provide free staff support to communities that are not participating to help them with their paperwork and application process. In doing so, we may be able to increase participation and reduce disaster impacts on communities./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/126168/n