“the Social Impact on the People of Purok Abestilla and Purok Bagong Lipunan, Mahayahay, Iligan City After the 2011 Fire Incident”
Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY This study describes how impact conditions act together with event-specific conditions to produce a disaster’s social impacts. These disaster impacts can be reduced by emergency management interventions. A disaster occurs when an extreme event exceeds a community’s ability to handle with that event. Understanding the disaster’s impact is important. Information from this study is needed to identify the impact conditions that make communities exposed to disaster impacts and information about this can be used to identify specific segments of each community that is affected excessively (e.g., low income households, ethnic minorities, or specific types of businesses) and can be used to identify the event-specific conditions that determine the level of disaster impact. Social impacts include psychosocial, demographic, economic, and political impacts, can develop over a long period of time and can be difficult to assess when they occur. Despite the difficulty in measuring these social impacts, it is however important to monitor them, and even to predict them if possible, because they can cause significant problems for the long-term functioning of specific types of households and businesses in an affected community. A better understanding of disasters’ social impacts can provide a basis for preimpact prediction and the development of unforeseen event plans to prevent adverse consequences from occurring. Over 80 percent of these deaths have occurred in off-campus occupancies, such as rented houses and apartments. A compilation of the fatal fires is available. Common factors in a number of these fires include: Lack of automatic fire sprinklers, missing or disabled smoke alarms, and careless disposal of smoking materials, impaired judgment from alcohol consumption. According to Robert F. Duval, Senior Fire Investigator, National Fire Protection Association, fires resulting in large losses of life in assembly
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY This study describes how impact conditions act together with event-specific conditions to produce a disaster’s social impacts. These disaster impacts can be reduced by emergency management interventions. A disaster occurs when an extreme event exceeds a community’s ability to handle with that event. Understanding the disaster’s impact is important. Information from this study is needed to identify the impact conditions that make communities exposed to disaster impacts and information about this can be used to identify specific segments of each community that is affected excessively (e.g., low income households, ethnic minorities, or specific types of businesses) and can be used to identify the event-specific conditions that determine the level of disaster impact. Social impacts include psychosocial, demographic, economic, and political impacts, can develop over a long period of time and can be difficult to assess when they occur. Despite the difficulty in measuring these social impacts, it is however important to monitor them, and even to predict them if possible, because they can cause significant problems for the long-term functioning of specific types of households and businesses in an affected community. A better understanding of disasters’ social impacts can provide a basis for preimpact prediction and the development of unforeseen event plans to prevent adverse consequences from occurring. Over 80 percent of these deaths have occurred in off-campus occupancies, such as rented houses and apartments. A compilation of the fatal fires is available. Common factors in a number of these fires include: Lack of automatic fire sprinklers, missing or disabled smoke alarms, and careless disposal of smoking materials, impaired judgment from alcohol consumption. According to Robert F. Duval, Senior Fire Investigator, National Fire Protection Association, fires resulting in large losses of life in assembly
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