Low Tech Beats High Tech Every Day
While it is still under investigation, the recent evacuation of the Hamburg airport points out how simple it is to create havoc intentionally or by accident. I also find choices [...]
Pro Bono Coastal Community’s Tsunami Annex
When I operated a hospital-based ambulance service decades ago we offered free education to rural and frontier volunteer EMS organizations. The service would house and feed us and we would [...]
Crowd Sourcing Input for my New Healthcare Book
I am in the process of writing a new book, Healthcare Emergency Incident Management Operations Guide. My goal in writing this book was to provide readers with a straight forward [...]
Beer and Disaster Preparedness
Today I wanted to switch it up from my usual harbinger of doom posts and give readers some tips on selecting the right beer when it comes to stocking their [...]
New Year’s Resolution For Your Organization
Now is the time of year when individuals are making New Year’s resolutions. The intent is to focus on something that is perceived as an area in need of improvement. [...]
December 23rd – Earthquake Kills 10,000
On this day in 1972 a 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua, killed more than 10,000 people and left 250,000 homeless. With family in Nicaragua now and frequent travels there I [...]
History Can Better Prepare us for the Future
It's been educational for me to look back to see how many events of the past are born anew to a new generation. One day this week an event took [...]
Was Fire That Devastated Gatlinburg Tennessee Preventable?
The death toll from a devastating blaze in and around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee rose to 13 on Friday December 21, 2016. The highest loss of [...]
History Can Better Prepare us for the Future – Week of November 27- December 3rd
In my last post I also looked back at history and was quite surprised during the week watching the news. The consequences of the killer smog event of 50 years [...]
History Can Better Prepare us for the Future
It seems stories are written about events occurring around the globe like it's the first time such a thing has happened. Unless multiple like-events happen over a short period of [...]