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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete. In the UK, the term 'disaster' is not used: 'major incident' is preferred. Was this not a disaster?