Response to the Joplin Tornado This assignment should take about 3 hours to complete. The purpose of this assignment is to learn about the emergency response and short-term recovery in the first year following the 2011 Joplin Missouri Tornado. Write short answers to the following questions. (A few sentences for each question is sufficient.) 3a. were the most critical tasks during the first day of the emergency response? 3b. were some of the major challenges faced by first responders during the immediate emergency response? 3c. were some of the challenges for emergency managers during the first days of the response? 3d. were some of the major challenges during the first year of recovery? 3e. were some of the successes achieved during the first year of recovery? Videos 1. Video Anatomy of an Emergency 2. Video Joplin Tornado Survivor 3. Video Joplin Starts Recovery 4. Video St. John’s Medical Center Recovery 5. Video A Year after Joplin’s Tornado, Disaster’s ‘Immensity’ Still a Challenge Reading Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2011). The response to the 2011 Joplin, Missouri, tornado Lessons learned study. Washington, DC Federal Emergency Management Agency. Retrieved from