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Hello my friend, now I want to share my experience about disaster management. On english class we have a special guest from KOPASSUS. The guest is Captain Paulus Pandjaitan from group 3. He was explain about disaster management with our class. I was so happy and proud because my class be the one that met people like him and much casethat can be learned from him about disaster management.

            By the way, what is disaster management? In my opinion disaster management is how to manage yourself when the disaster happen to keep yourself safely. But the real meaning disater management is the organization of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergency, preparedness, recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters.

There are two main types of disaster : the first is Natural disasters, disaster are caused because of natural phenomena is like flood, earthquake, landslide, tsunami, cyclone, and drought. And the second is Non-natural disasters, disaster that come from human activities. The example is pollution.

Disaster management consists of four phase :

1.      Preparedness, activities increase a community’s ability to respond when a disaster occurs or prepare all we need before disaster come.

2.      Response, action carried out immediately before, during and immediately after hazard impact, which are aimed at saving lives, reducing economic losses, and alleviating suffering or what we do during the disaster come.

3.      Recovery, action taken to return a community to normal or near-normal condition or event after the disaster.

4.      Mitigation, refers to measures that prevent an emergency, reduce the chance of an emergency happening, or reduce the damaging effects of disaster.

Last, i want to tell you about the general measures to be kept in mind during disaster from Captain Paulus. Captain Paulus said, the first thing is don’t panic and keep calm, you must to believe that all it will fine. So, you will find the ways. And then you can shout or scream for help, and you call for ambulance or that most important is first-aid-kit