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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 ago were replicated when hundreds were...
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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....
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History Can Better Prepare us for the Future – Week of December 11th –...
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 place about 206 years ago that will change the United...
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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 am always aware...
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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 no nonsense reference...
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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 give them a...
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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...
View ArticleWho’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”, or “my safety is most important...
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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 product reviews but his intrigued me and he...
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Using LinkedIn for Good
For those that have been on LinkedIn for the past decade you’ve seen changes. Originally it was a site where professionals were connecting and engaging in discussions on a wide range of work related...
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