Social normalcy is a term to describe the efforts to return a community back to that pre-disaster conditions as soon as possible, both in terms of economic viability and letting [...]
Over three thousand people remain missing, many of them children after the devastating tsunami in March of 2011. Debris which floats close to the surface and has been pushed by [...]
A recent revision to an Executive Order titled National Defense Resources Preparedness got me to thinking at what point do the interests of the citizens really matter when it comes [...]
When I view photos and video of devastated coastal communities in Japan due to the tsunami back in March of 2011 and then read an article of a coastal community [...]
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", [...]
I have been a proponent of development of an Incident Action Plan that would be agreed upon to be implemented by all parties (local, county, state, Native American, Inuit, Japan [...]
As an Incident Commander I would call vertical evacuation a strategy if my objective was determined to be "provide for the immediate safety of coastal residents after a strong offshore [...]
Over the next twelve months, I will look at 12 predictable events and their inherent problems and offer potential solutions. We tend to have a habit of acting surprised when [...]
This game can give Emergency Managers and Planners new tools to help educate with.
Some disasters are slow evolving such as hurricanes which are tracked well before landfall. Others happen with devastating suddenness such as the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan earlier this [...]