OK, You Gotta Get These Emergency Candles
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 [...]
Avoid the Blame Game
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. [...]
Who Wins the Recovery Race after Hurricane Harvey – Ants or People?
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 [...]
Who’s Safety is Most Important – Really?
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", [...]
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 [...]
How Bad is Bad?
I was tasked to develop a ground truth appreciation presentation for this year's Pathfinder Minutemen 2017 Cascadia exercise in Oregon. We're anticipating 10-12 Medical Rapid Response Teams (120-144 medical personnel) to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]