HomeMy WebLinkAboutNational Disaster Survival Test 1977WILSON E. SPEIR
Director
M. P. BOWDEN
State Coordinator
TO: All Civil Defense Directors
FROM: Colonel Wilson E. Speir, State Director
SUBJECT: NBC's "National Disaster Survival Test"
On May 1, 1977 you and the citizens of your community will
have an unique opportunity to participate in a nationwide program
on disaster preparedness. On this date at 8:00 p.m. eastern time,
NBC will televise "The National Disaster Survival Test." The pro-
gram will be a ninety minute, prime time "Big Event" in cooperation
with the National Safety Council. The Council will serve as the
authoritative source of the accident prevention content of the
program. The program itself is designed to enable the partici-
pants to become more aware of the basic facts of disaster survival.
Participating in the National Disaster Survival Test may, therefore,
help save lives.
To take the test, the home viewer need only have pen or
pencil and the official test answer form, which is being designed
and produced by the National Safety Council. The test form will
be printed in newspapers and magazines such as TV Guide. In fact,
we are inviting and encouraging you to fully exploit this once -in-
a- generation opportunity by promoting the program in your community
and by encouraging citizens to participate in the program on May 1,
1977.
Should you need further information, DPS Safety Education
Service personnel and Regional Liaison Officers will be happy to
help.
Wilson E. Speir
Director
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
DIVISION OF DISASTER EMERGENCY SERVICES
Date April 7, 1977
DES -12
Washington, D.C.
NATIONAL DISASTER SURVIVAL TEST
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DEFENSE CIVIL PREPAREDNESS AGENCY
April 12, 1977 No. 292
A National Disaster Survival Test will be presented on the NBC
television network Sunday, May 1, at 8 p.m., Eastern Time. According
to the National Safety Council, the test "will be concerned with all
aspects of safety -- public, home, and industrial, as well as traffic- -
all within the context of disasters, large and small."
The NBC presentation will include actual disaster film footage
obtained from DCPA, disaster scenes created in Hollywood, and interviews
with disaster survivors and survival experts.
It will concentrate on what people can do for personal protection.
The objective is to reduce the potential for casualties and property
damage in the future.
This 90- minute "Big- Event" presentation is being developed by
Bush Productions, Inc., in association with Guenette- Asselin Productions,
Inc., and in cooper tion with the National Safety Council. Warren Bush,
President of BPI, wrote nd produced the award - winning National Drivers'
Test for CBS in 1965.
In the National Disaster Survival Test, questions on potential
peacetime hazards and what can be done about them will be posed to a
cross - section of Americans in four major U.S. cities. Five presentation,
discussion, and report desks at a central location will be concerned
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respectively with survival of hazards created by (1) water, (2) wind,
(3) ice and sun, (4) fire, and (5) earthquakes.
Electronic tabulation of responses by studio audiences to test
questions will be reported during the program. Test answers will be
evaluated on (a) judgment, (b) knowledge, (c) alertness, (d) stress,
and (e) leadership. Viewers may participate by using the attached test
form, which may be reproduced. The form will be printed also in TV Guide.
and to help promote local interest so the National Surviv
be a communitywide event As part of this effort, civil def- se directors
are urged also to .rk closely with their local NBC -TV station program
directors
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A Warren V. Bush Production in cooperation with the National Safety Council
NBC Television 8:00 p.m, Eastern Time, Sunday, May 1, 1977
OFFICIAL TEST FORM
I. JUDGMENT II. KNOWLEDGE
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1. Yes No
2. List the number of potential dangers:
IV. STRESS
1. Yes No 9. Yes No
2. Yes No 10. Yes No
3. Yes No 11. Yes No
4. Yes No 12. Yes No
5. Yes No 13. Yes No
6. Yes No 14. Yes No
7. Yes No 15. Yes No
8. Yes No
Use this test form to indicate your answers, to total your
score, and to compare your score with your family, friends,
and other groups.
Members of the National Safety Council may obtain addi-
tional information on disaster survival by contacting Council
headquarters, 444 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60611.
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PRELIMINARY SCORE
VI. SPECIAL SCORING
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Last year 18,000 Americans died in fires, floods,
earthquakes, tornadoes, storms and transportation
disasters. Do you know how to survive such disasters?
Tonight, learn how you can best protect yourself
and your family. Use this National Safety Council
test form for your answers and scoring.
NBC's Tom Snyder is ho 'St. Co -hosts include Shana
Alexander, John Amos, Kate Jackson and Walter Shirra.
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BIG EVENT THE NATIONAL DISASTER SURVIVAL TEST
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Would you know what to do in an emer-
gency? You can find out by taking The
National Disaster Survival Test."
This audience - participation test covers
a range of disasters, both natural and
• man -made. It measures not only survival
knowledge but also alertness and reac-
tions to stress. Calamities include fires,
floods and earthquakes; tornadoes, hur-
ricanes and blizzards; and multiple -car
collisions, explosions and severe smog.
The test is supplemented by newsreel
footage and dramatic re- creations. There
are also pointers on giving first aid, locat-
ing home fire hazards and staying alive in
a blazing skyscraper.
Test questions can be found in the ac-
companying advertisement.
Hosts: Tom Snyder, Kate Jackson,
John Amos. Apollo 7 astronaut Walter M.
Schirra and journalist Shana Alexander.
Also present are Vincent Tofany, presi-
dent of the National Safety Council, and
Dr. Frank Stanton, chairman of the
American Red Cross. (90 min.)
Jacqueline Bisset
Maureen Stapleton
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COUNTY O f'.ECTOR AND CHAIRMAN
E.E. BURNS
COUNTY DEPUTY DIRECTOR
J. LOUIS ODLE
BRYAN DIRECTOR
BRAZOS
Jake Canglose
Brazos County Civil Defense
Director
OFFICE OF
CIVIL DEFENSE & EMERGENCY PLANNING
COUNTY COURTHOUSE
BRYAN, TEXAS 77801
PRESS RELEASE
COUNTY
JAMES PRESSWOOD
TEXAS A& SA UNIVEP.SITY DIRECTOR
GEORGE L. HUEBNER
COLLEGE STATION DIRECTOR
NORTH BARDELL
COLLEGE STATION DEPUTY DIRECTOR
April 26, 1977
NATIONAL DISASTER SURVIVAL TEST
A National Disaster Survival Test will be presented on the NBC
television network Sunday, May 1, at 8 pm, Eastern Time. According
to the National Safety Council, the test "will be concerned with all
aspects of safety -- public, home, and industrial, as well as traffic --
all within the context of disasters, large and small."
The NBC presentation will include actual disaster film footage
obtained form DCPA, disaster scenes created in Hollywood, and interviews
with disaster survivors and survival experts.
It will concentrate on what people can do for personal protection.
The objective is to reduce the potential for casualties and property
damage in the future.
In the naitonal Disaster Survival Test, questions on potential
peacetime hazards and what can be done about them will be posed to a
cross - section of Americans in four major U.S. Cities. Five present-
ation, discussion, and report desks at a central location will be con-
cerned respectively with survival of hazards created by (1) water,
(2) wind, (3) ice and sun, (4) fire, and (5) earthquakes.
Electronic tabulation of resposes by studio audiences to test
questions will be reported during the program. Test answers will
be evaluated on (a) judgment, (b) Knowledge, (c) alertness, (d) stress,
and (e) leadership.. Viewers may participate by using the attached
test form, which may be reproduced. The form will be printed also
in TV Guide.
Your local city and county governments and the Brazos County
Civil Defense Office urge all citizens to participate in this
exercise.
The Official Test Form" will be available this week in the Press and
in the Eagle Sunday TV magazine section.
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THE NATIONAL DISASTER SURVIVAL TEST
A Warren V. Bush Production in cooperation with the National Safety Council
NBC Television 8:00 p.m, Eastern Time, Sunday, May 1, 1977
I. JUDGMENT
1. a (65 c d
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1. Yes 9 9. Yes
2. e)No 10. Yes
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4. Yes icp 12. Yes
5. No 13. Yes) No
6. Yes NO 14. Yes No
7. No 15. es No
8. Ye No
Score
OFFICIAL TEST FORM
III. ALERTNESS
1. Yes No
2. List the number of potential dangers:
Use this test form to indicate your answers, to total your
score, and to compare your score with your family, friends,
and other groups.
Members of the National Safety Council may obtain addi-
tional information on disaster survival by contacting Council
headquarters, 444 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60611.
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III. ALERTNESS
1. Yes No
2. List the number of potential dangers:
IV. STRESS
1. Yes No
2. Yes No
3. Yes No
4. Yes No
5. Yes No
6. Yes No
7. Yes No
8. Yes No
Score
9. Yes No
10. Yes No
11. Yes No
12. Yes No
13. Yes No
14. Yes No
15. Yes No
Score
Use this test form to indicate your answers, to total your
score, and to compare your score with your family, friends,
and other groups.
Members of the National Safety Council may obtain addi-
tional information on disaster survival by contacting Council
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Awareness level
Disaster test
to air May 1
on NBC
What would you do if a
tornado were approaching
and you were trapped in a
beach house?
What part of the house is
safest in the event of an
earthquake?
Questions like these and
others on the practical
steps to take during a
natural disaster will be the
subject of the National
Disaster Survival Test, to
be aired at 7 p.m. May 1 on
NBC.
The program which lasts
90 minutes is produced by
the National Safety
Council (NSC) with the
hope of evaluating the
level of disaster awareness
in this country.
It is set up in a test
format.
Film clips of natural
disasters or re- enactments
of disasters will be shown,
then questions on the right
A form for answering
these questions is printed
on this page.
A spokesman for the
Texas Safety Association,
a branch of the NSC, said
sample audiences will be
taking the test throughout
the country.
"We'll be able to see,"
she said, "whether
mothers know more first
aid than fathers;
teenagers more than older
people, doctors more than
laymen."
After the questions have
been given, the answers
will be discussed and the
right one explained.
Jean Myatt, executive
director of the local
chapter of the American
Red Cross, urges all
citizens to watch the
program so that they may
learn how to act in the
THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1977
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NBC special to help persons
deal with emergency situations
To help improve Americans'
chances of coping with
emergency situations, NBC will
televise "The National Disaster
THE NATIONAL DISASTER SURVIVAL TEST
A Warren V. Bush Production in cooperation with the National Safety Council
NBC Television 8:00 p.m, Eastern Time, Sunday, May 1, 1977
OFFICIAL TEST FORM
I. JUDGMENT
1. a b c d
2. a b c d
3. a b c d
Score
III. ALERTNESS
1. Yes No
2. List the number of potential dangers
IV. STRESS
1. Yes No 9. Yes No
2. Yes No 10. Yes No
3. Yes No 11. Yes No
4. Yes No 12. Yes No
5. Yes No 13. Yes No
6. Yes No 14. Yes No
7. Yes No 15. Yes No
8. Yes No
Score
II. KNOWLEDGE
1. T F 5. T F 8. T F
2. T F 6. T F 9. T F
3. T F 7. T F 10. T F
4. T F
Score
Score
V. LEADERSHIP
1. a b c d
2. a b c d
Score
PRELIMINARY SCORE
VI. SPECIAL SCORING
YOUR FINAL SCORE
Use this test form to indicate your answers, to total your
score, and to compare your score with your family, friends,
and other groups.
Members of the National Safety Council may obtain addi-
tional information on disaster survival by contacting Council
eadquarters, 444 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Mina's 60611.
Survival Test" on Sunday, May 1,
at 7 p.m. The 90- minute event
will focus on preventing acci-
dents that occur within disaster
situations.
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ters, large and small."
The NBC presentation
will include actual disaster
film footage obtained from
DCPA, disaster scenes crea-
• ted in Hollywood, and inter-
views with disaster' survi-
vors and survival experts.
It will concentrate on
what people can do for per-
sonal protection. The objec-
sti+e is to reduce the poten-
tial for casualties and pro-
perty damage in the future.
In the National Disaster
Survival Test, questions on
potential peacetime hazards
and what can be done about
them will be posed to a
cross - section of Americans
in four major U. S. cities.
Five presentation discus-
sion, and report desks at a
central location will be con-
cerned respectively with
survival of hazards created
by (1) water, (2) wind, (3) ice
and sun, (4) fire, and (5)
earthquakes.
Electronic tabulation of
responses by studio audien-
ces to test questions will be
reported during the pro-
gram. Test answers will be
evaluated on (a) judgment,
(b) knowledge, (c) alertness,
(d) stress, and (e) leader-
ship.
Your local county and city
wernment and the Brazos
aunty Civil Defense offices
urge all citizens to partici-
pate in this exercise.
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to test viewers' nzjjle
During the past year or so, television
documentaries had about the same popu-
larity with viewers as have severe
weather alerts.
Now executive producer Warren V.
Bush may have come up with a system
to keep documentary -type programs out
of the ratings Siberia.
As one of its Big Event programs,
NBC will present Sunday (7 -8:30 p.m.,
Channel 2) "The National Disaster Sur-
vival Test." The show will have many
facets.
It will have nostalgia (the Johnstown
flood of 1889, the 1900 Galveston hurri-
cane).
It will have audience participation (a
test you can take during the show by
clipping the form on this page).
It will have relatively modern disas-
ters (the great Colorado flood of 1976,
Hurricane Camille, the earthquakes of
Long Beach, 1933, of Alaska, 1964, and
Los Angeles, 1971).
It will have competition (viewers can
check their scores against those of audi-
ences in four cities: New York, New Or-
leans, Milwaukee and Los Angeles).
AND THERE WILL BE plenty of
hosts. Tom Snyder of NBC's Tomorrow
show will have as cohosts former astro-
naut Wally Schirra, journalist Shana
Alexander, John Amos of "Roots" and
Kate Jackson of Charlie's Angels.
Vincent L. Tofany, president of the
National Safety Council, and Dr. Frank
Stanton, chairman of the National Red
Cross and former president and vice
chairman of CBS, also will be on the pro-
gram.
Finally, "The National Disaster Sur-
vival Test" can save your life.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BUSH said
in a telephone interview, "We lose 18,000
Americans a year in disaster situations.
We try to show you how to survive a
disaster.
"Most people think of earthquakes as
being on the West Coast, mostly in Los
Television
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Pest TV Editor
Angeles. But the largest U.S. earthquake
recorded was in Missouri. Every state
has had earthquakes.
"We concentrate a lot on fires, espe-
cially fires in residential and high -rise
buildings.
"We get into first aid problems. Just
two things can save many lives: Breath-
ing (starting) and bleeding (stopping).
"We also show you how to prepare for
disasters."
THERE WILL BE shots of actual
disasters, still and motion pictures, and
some scenes of simulated disasters, such
as an auto crash, a home fire and an
earthquake that hits a school, will be
shown.
"Not all disasters are filmed," Bush
said, "so we have to recreate some
disaster situations."
The executive producer is an expert at
giving tests on television. He did the Na-
tional Drivers Test for CBS in 1965, and
that special brought in a million letters,
and 150 drivers - or former drivers -
sent him their car ignition keys.
For this survival test, 50 million test
forms are being distributed. In addition
to the form on this page, there will be
another on page 7 of TV Week magazine
in Sunday's Houston Post.
PEOPLE WERE pre - tested in the four
cities mentioned above, so you will be
told Sunday what their scores were.
The special will be divided into six
parts, testing judgment; knowledge;
alertness; ability to react (it says
"stress" on the chart); leadership; and
actual, existing precautions (it says
OFFICIAL TEST FORM
1. JUDGMENT
1. a b c d
2. a b c d
3. a b c d
Score
III. ALERTNESS
1. Yes No
2. List the number of potential dangers:
IV. STRESS
1. Yes No 9. Yes No
2. Yes No 10. Yes No
3. Yes No 11. Yes No
4. Yes No 12. Yes No
5. Yes No 13. Yes No
6. Yes No 14. Yes No
7. Yes No 15. Yes No
8. Yes No
Score
11. KNOWLEDGE
1. T F 5. T F 8. T F
2. T F 6. T F 9. T F
3. T F 7. T F 10. T F
4. T F
Score
PRELIMINARY SCORE
' Score
V. LEADERSHIP
1. a b c d
2. a b c d
Score
VI. SPECIAL SCORING
YOUR FINAL SCORE
The Official National Disaster Survival Test
"special scoring" on the chart).
Asked about part VI, Special Scoring,
Bush said, "Ah, we get diabolical there.
We say, 'OK, that's what you know, but
what do you really do ?'
"In times of crisis, people don't .
always do what they know is right."
BUSH SAID many schools are having
students take the test on television.
Incidentally, Warren Bush Produc-
tions, with NBC, has started production
on a two -hour NBC World Premiere
movie based on the controversial "pull
the plug" case of the young New Jersey
woman, clinically dead, who was being
kept alive by machines. The title is. "In
the Matter of Karen Anne Quinlan."
Bush said, "This is really the story
the parents, Joe and Julie Quinlan, who
placed their daughter in the hands of
God rather than medical technology."
The roles are played by Brian Keith
and Piper Laurie. Karen is played by
Mary Anne Grayson (the niece of Ka-
thryn Grayson), and her sister is played
by Stephanie Zimbalist, the daughter of
Efrem Zimhalist
The Houston Post 7B
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1977