Week of December 8: Emergency News You Can Use
A weekly round-up of news, articles and surveys to make your next emergency better. Have a suggestion for the round-up? Contact me at abetteremergency@gmail.com. New on the Disaster Front This article...
View ArticleWeek of January 5: Emergency News You Can Use
A weekly round-up of news, articles and surveys to make your next emergency better. Have a suggestion for the round-up? Contact me at abetteremergency@gmail.com. Like a number of readers, I’m working...
View Article2015 Training Programs
When people are put under stress they fall back on one of two things; experience or training. Make 2015 the year that your organization offers current, relevant and engaging training for your...
View ArticleOpen for Business
I was reading an article in Business Insider about the challenges natural disasters create for many businesses. One in four small to medium sized businesses will not reopen after a major storm. Small...
View ArticleNew Threats or Déjà Vu?
I expect there are a few gray around the edge readers like myself who are starting to wonder why people are looking at ISIL threats as something new. This is nothing more than a cover of an old song....
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HICS – Incident Action Planning (IAP) Made Easy
I can’t tell you how many events and exercises I’ve been involved in and when I inquire about their planning efforts I am told “we’re too busy to plan”. The concern that planning takes too much...
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Organizational Couch Potatoes – A False Sense of Preparedness
I was rummaging through some old files the other day and I came across my copy of the After Action Report (AAR) for Quakex97. This was a joint local, state and federal medical exercise based on a...
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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 December21, 2016. The highest loss of civilian life from a single U.S....
View ArticleEmergency Management Agencies need Community Managers
Is online communication necessary? Once upon a time, Emergency Managers were taught to build relationships between their Emergency Management Agency (EMA) and the media. The media was our conduit to...
View ArticleWeek of November 24th: Emergency News You Can Use
A weekly round-up of news, articles and surveys to make your next emergency better. Have a suggestion for the round-up? Contact me at abetteremergency@gmail.com. Bonds that pay out when catastrophe...
View ArticleWeek of December 8: Emergency News You Can Use
A weekly round-up of news, articles and surveys to make your next emergency better. Have a suggestion for the round-up? Contact me at abetteremergency@gmail.com. New on the Disaster Front This article...
View ArticleWeek of January 5: Emergency News You Can Use
A weekly round-up of news, articles and surveys to make your next emergency better. Have a suggestion for the round-up? Contact me at abetteremergency@gmail.com. Like a number of readers, I’m working...
View Article2015 Training Programs
When people are put under stress they fall back on one of two things; experience or training. Make 2015 the year that your organization offers current, relevant and engaging training for your...
View ArticleCommunity 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 and Be...
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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 wave of ants emerges to search and destroy the...
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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. I don’t think the Emergency Management...
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In an emergency or disaster, how important is your phone?
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 would rather write on my computer, but for essential...
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Talk is Cheap
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 stop staring at my smart device while they do their jobs....
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Staying Open for Business When Others Close is Opportunity
I was reading an article in Business Insider about the challenges natural disasters create for many businesses. One in four small to medium sized businesses will not reopen after a major storm. Small...
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Hurricane Season Approaches-Prepare to Recover
June 1st will be the official start date of the 2018 hurricane season. The season, according to one forecast may see as many as 18 named storms, with one to five of them developing into major...
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