Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) can easily be deployed in a disastrous situation. Mobile routing protocols provide efficient routing strategies in such situations to share critical and emergency-related information. Many researchers have designed various energy and link-aware routing protocols but research still needs improvement. This study focuses on and evaluates the performance of TCP and UDP transport layer protocols under the EPLAODV routing protocol in an emergency. Various emergency-related scenarios are designed and simulated in the NS-2 environment. Network traffic load, node mobility, and simulation time are the main parameters. It is observed from the results that the TCP performs better than UDP under EPLAODV in an emergency situation.