Information System The “official alert” system for a storm

or hurricane entails the coordination between management,

the National Emergency Management Organization Response;- actions may include activating the emergency
(NEMO) and the Belize National Meteorological Service operations center, evacuating threatened populations,
(NMS). The emergency coordinator will therefore activate opening shelters and providing mass care, emergency
the required hurricane plan. rescue and medical care, fire fighting, and urban search
and rescue.
Fire Prevention and Response Plan The fire prevention RECOVERY;- include Actions taken to return a
and response plan will focus on the possibility of a fire and community to normal or near-normal conditions,
any fire outbreak, whether large or small, that might occur. including the restoration of basic services and the repair
It is therefore important to consider its likelihood and with of physical, social and economic damages. Typical
this in mind, the development will develop a response plan recovery actions debris clean-up, financial assistance to
aimed at addressing the awareness and the mechanism individuals and governments, rebuilding of roads and
necessary for its response. bridges and key facilities, and sustained mass care for
displaced human and animal populations.
Hurricane Warning;- During this phase, a hurricane
Fire Protection Equipment/Systems;- All the hotel
may threaten within (36) thirty-six hours. A hurricane
and villa units along with other buildings on the
or storm is located within 20° N 85° W. Actions to be property will be protected from fire in one form or
taken: 1.Advise all vessel Captains to leave the marine another. False Caye will install protection systems to
areas immediately and take their vessel to safe harbor or protect lives and property which are summarized
properly moor their boats to the marina. 2.The Emergency below:
Coordinator will advise all employees and available human 1.Fire alarm detection and notification systems. Smoke
resources to install the hurricane shutters on the villas, detectors: The project will install fire detection equipment in
hotel and other buildings. 3.Advise all occupants of the the form of smoke detectors in each of the units and in the
island including guests and employees to be prepared to building hallways and walkways. The smoke detectors will
evacuate the island upon the recommendations of NEMO. activate the smoke alarm possibly signaling a fire or of
something burning. Manually activated pull station: The
3.Medical Emergency;- Much of first aid is common hotel and villa buildings will have a manually activated pull
sense, and people are almost certain to learn some elements station in the event that someone sees a fire. It is essential
as they go through their life (such as knowing how to apply that both guests, residents and staff are aware of these
an adhesive bandage to a small cut on a finger). However, warning devices and their potential use in detecting fires.
effective life-saving first aid requires hands-on training by 2.Fire Suppression Systems. Hydrants: Fire hydrants will
experts, especially where it relates to potentially fatal be used on the project as a means of fighting fire. These
illnesses and injuries, such as those that require hydrants will be spaced out according to each sewer zone. In
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), as the procedures other words, the four project sewer zones will have their
may be invasive, and carry a risk of further injury to the own hydrant loop, and each sewer zone will be connected to
patient - which the ‘3 aims’ of first aid above, clearly try to each other via valves. Water for these hydrants will be
avoid. As the key skill to first aid is preserving life, the gotten either from the recycled wastewater in each sewer
single most important training a first aider can receive is in zone or from the sea. Pumps at each sewer zone and at the
the primary diagnosis and care of an unconscious or service pier will be used to pressurize the fire hydrant loops.
unresponsive patient. The most common mnemonic used to Flexible water hoses will be coupled to the hydrants and
remember the procedure for this is ABC, which stands for used to extinguish the fire. Fire Extinguishers: False Caye
Airway, Breathing and Circulation. will install multi-purpose dry chemical (Class ABC) fire
extinguishers. Dry chemical extinguishers will range in sizes
STEPS;- 1.Prevention;- Actions taken to avoid an of 5 lbs to 10 lbs and will be installed in the hallways and
incident. Stopping an incident from occurring. walkways of the hotel and villa units. These will also be
Deterrence operations and surveillance. Mitigation;- installed at key areas such as, containment walls, generators,
Refers to measures that prevent an emergency, reduce the electrical panels, maintenance areas, etc.
chance of an emergency happening, or reduce the
damaging effects of unavoidable emergencies.    Typical
mitigation measures include establishing building codes Hurricane Preparedness Plan (Evacuation Plan);-
and zoning requirements, installing shutters, and The hurricane preparedness plan will involve an alert,
constructing barriers such as levees. Preparedness;- response and recovery stage to deal with any natural
Actions carried out immediately before, during, and disaster involving hurricanes, storms or tropical
immediately after a hazard impact, which are aimed at depressions. This is the most common natural
saving lives, reducing economic losses, and alleviating phenomenon occurring in Belize and the only one that
suffering. would require a full scale evacuation. Belize lies within
the hurricane belt, and is vulnerable to high wind and
storm surge. During the past 100 years, Belize has been
hit several times by major hurricanes. Belize has been
hit 40 times by storms ranging from tropical depressions
to hurricanes (Usher, 2000). The return period for storms
since 1870 is three (3) years, and the vulnerability
increases from North to South (Usher 2000).