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Unit V Essay

An emergency manager must immediately develop a plan for volunteers as well as for working with the media. Otherwise, volunteers and the media can be detrimental to an emergency management team's efforts.

This assignment allows you to think critically as an emergency manager about planning for volunteers and the media. Select a major disaster that has occurred within the last 10 years. You may use the event you selected in past units or choose something new.

However, you may not use the same disaster(s) that were used as examples in the Unit V Lesson. If you use the same disaster as you selected from a past unit, you must review at least one NEW/additional article. Use at least one scholarly article that is housed in the online library.

Write a one-page essay about how emergency managers should plan for both volunteers and also working with the media. Include each of the following:

Explain how working with the media helped (would have helped) while dealing with mass fatalities during the response and recovery efforts of your chosen disaster. Use your chosen case as an example within your explanation.

Explain why it is important to plan for volunteers coming into the community. Use your chosen case as an example within your explanation.

Please be sure to include support from the literature when completing this assignment, and use proper APA format (title page and reference are required, but are not included in the required page count).