Shark Week
I like many of my readers enjoy when television gives us a whole week of nothing but sensationalized and awesome footage of sharks doing what sharks do. I'm waiting for [...]
Community Manager – Duties and Job Description
Your Community Manager will need to develop a social media crisis management plan in advance, with the full participation of everyone in the agency. Communication Points to Consider 1. Listen [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Would you Like Fries with That?
For those that knew him I am my father's son. Same wild professor eyebrows and prematurely graying hair. The music gene seemed to skip me for the most part but [...]
Tale of Two Dead Patients
Prologue - I'm a fan of the Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas series. The main character is a clairvoyant quick order cook afflicted with the ability to occasionally see and interact [...]
Anecdotal is Sometimes All You Got
This call required a real team effort to achieve the outcome, a Rescue 9-1-1 show segment. It may have been the outcome but it was the farthest thing from my [...]
Sirens to Wedding Bells
This call definitely resulted in an outcome I was not expecting. Working the ambulance we were dispatched to the report of a gunshot wound nearly 30 miles away next to [...]
Didn’t See That Coming
Most organizations that handle 9-1-1 EMS calls have their "frequent flyers". In some cases these are people who have chronic conditions which are either fragile or self-exacerbated by not following [...]