Potential incidents
Potential incidents which may require an emergency response include:
- severe weather incidents (flood, snow, storms, heat wave)
- major transport accidents (road, rail, air, sea)
- major fires and explosions
- chemical and pollution incidents
- health related diseases and epidemics
- animal diseases (such as Foot and Mouth, Blue tongue and Avian Influenza (Bird Flu))
- structural collapse (buildings and roads)
- terrorism
- loss of or disruption to essential services/communications