Lessons Learned from the Sonoma County Wildfires in Public Alerting
Sonoma County and northern California in recent months were household names when it came to national news and disaster-related discussions. This is where the tragic wildfires occurred that took more than 20 lives and destroyed over 5,000 homes. While reading an...
read moreThe Internet and Terrorism: Can Communities Play a Role?
Aside from my emergency management and homeland security interests, I have another hobby in video content creation on YouTube. While not really relevant, my videos focus on hiking, backpacking and outdoor forestry-related recreational activities around the region I...
read moreDoes My Business or Organization Need an Emergency Management Specialist?
Emergency Management is often a term that we hear in association with a government body. We see emergency management often linked to the federal government through programs and agencies involving the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management...
read more5 Major Challenges of Rural Emergency Management Systems
Maintaining an emergency management system in most environments is often a very specialized skill among those who are responsible for it. In a rural setting, the maintenance of an emergency management system is often more of a challenge due to the lack of...
read moreUtilizing NGOs for Winter Weather Response in Rural Communities
It’s that time of the year. No more cutting the grass or spraying for bugs. We watch the leaves fall from the trees and the humid days fade away. It is nice this time of year but it also brings many of us a special kind of misery that we often dread. Winter Weather!...
read moreRural Healthcare Facilities and Disaster Preparedness Challenges
Is your rural hospital or healthcare facility ready for a major disaster? When we think about disasters, we often think about 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy and the Boston Marathon Bombings. All of these disasters happened in larger cities where an...
read moreEstablishing Local Emergency Resources and Mutual Aid Partners in Rural Communities
One particular challenge regarding rural emergency management that strikes most small communities is the lack of resource sources and mutual aid partnerships that aid and assist during a local emergency situation. Resources do not simply grow on trees. Resources are...
read moreOrganizational Counterintelligence: A Guide to Preventing Industrial Espionage
When we think about the term Counterintelligence, we often consider this the business of secretive three letter agencies, Hollywood’s take of action-packed spy thrillers and practically anything that was written by Tom Clancy in his time. We don’t often align...
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