It's a challenge to know where to devote planning, training and exercise time with so many competing demands, agendas and requirements. Consider this - people will fall back on two [...]
I fly quite a bit. Enough on Delta that I can pretty much recite their safety briefing. But I still put down my paper, take my ear buds out or [...]
With the current smart devices most of us carry there is rarely a task we can't do on our phone that used to be reserved for our laptops. Agreed, I [...]
I could be upping my chances that this post will get me pulled out for “random” screening, but it’s a life safety issue. I fly quite a bit and participate [...]
I’ve been involved in planning for a Cascadia earthquake/tsunami event and a New Madrid earthquake event so I know what a catastrophe will look like. I have not been involved [...]
Globally we know that the impoverished are disproportionately impacted by disasters both in direct affects and recovery. With the hurricane season of 2017 and the current struggles in Puerto Rico [...]
Kevin Dawson a semi-retired fire-fighter got a hold of me through LinkedIn asking if I would take a look at his product. I am very picky when it comes to [...]
As I'm writing this, Texas is still in an active emergency response mode so many answers are months away from discovery but I think one thing needs to be stated. [...]
I once thought that a disturbed ants nest was a great example of high entropy. It’s not. Don’t believe me? Go kick a fire ant nest and stand there. A [...]
Ask this question of most public safety personnel and they will respond "my safety is most important, because if I am injured or killed, I can't do anyone any good", [...]
