Emergency Preparedness Training

   Emergency preparedness training abounds; emergency preparedness is much of the motivation behind 'Learn Everything'. What kind of training you want depends on your focus.

   'A weekend in the Maine North Woods' written up in the Portland Phoenix(!);

http://portland.thephoenix.com/life/133703-weekend-in-maines-north-woods-teaches-lessons-b/#ixzz1mdekVNVo

    For the more macho, last-man-standing type; http://completesurvivalist.com/

   The American Red Cross; http://www.redcross.org/

   Citizen Corps;   http://www.citizencorps.gov/

Health Care and Other Professional Response Teams

The Armed Forces; Manual of Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE).

http://www.survivalebooks.com/survivalfm3-0570.html

http://survivalebooks.com/

http://stevespages.com/page7c.htm

survival evasion and recovery

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/21-76-1/fm_21-76-1survival.pdf

The National Guard

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123036858

The Coast Guard; Search and Rescue, Marine Safety, and Marine Environmental Protection

FEMA; The National Response Framework specifies from the individual level all the way up to 'the top' how it proposes an 'all hazards response' will be orchestrated; town EMA, county EMA, state EMA, federal EMA.

http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nrf-core.pdf

   The general word has always been, don't expect outside help for 72 hours. At times, governmental entities have done much better than that, at times, worse.

   For those who are interested, this is from Wikipedia; the organizational chart showing the chain of command among the top-level officials in the Department of Homeland Security, as of July 17, 2008. FEMA is down on the bottom line, next to last on the right.