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An emergency manager trying to make a difference.

The name of the blog comes from a conversation with my daughter, where she told me that I was always looking to help people be prepared for the inevitable emergencies in life.

I started this blog as a place to assemble all the information that I was getting every day and to share my thoughts and ideas on emergency management.

I had no idea how much of the blog would wind up being what's in the news. While it does not take a lot to add a blog entry, I just did not realize how much of my day was involved with simply keeping up with what's going on. All of the posts, whether what's in the news or comments or just a piece of information, have a purpose; to get us thinking, to get us talking, and to make things better - in other words, to make a difference.

Hopefully this blog will save you some time and energy, or help you in some other way. If you would like to see something, please let me know.

Posting an article does not imply that I agree with the comments in the article. In fact, in many case, I do not agree, but feel that the comments should be part of the discussion. All opinions are welcome. I only ask that you remain considerate and professional of other opinions.

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Favorite Quotes for the Emergency Manager

  • “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • “Failing to plan is planning to fail”
  • “Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.” Denis Waitley
  • "Station 51, KMG365."
  • “One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” Arnold H. Glasgow
  • “An ostrich with its head in the sand is just as blind to opportunity as to disaster”
  • “The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.” Douglas MacArthur
  • “My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.” Buckminster Fuller
  • “Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part”
  • "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, ..." Rudyard Kipling
  • "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

LIVINGSTON COMMUNITY NEWS: Donald Arbic promoted to emergency management director

On a 9-0 vote Tuesday, the Livingston County Board of Commissioners named Donald Arbic as director of central dispatch and emergency management, effective April 1. He will succeed Dick Winsett, who will be retiring at the end of March.

It marks a promotion for Arbic, who currently serves as the central dispatch operations director. The county personnel committee was directed to establish the pay grade for Arbic's new position.

"(Arbic) is well thought of in his peer group; the police chiefs and other public safety entities are supportive of him," said Dave Domas of Tyrone Township, who chairs the board's public safety-judicial committee.

"Arbic's job performance and conduct are excellent; people rave about the guy," said Board Vice Chairman Jack LaBelle of Brighton Township.

Part of Arbic's duties will be overseeing the operation of the county's 911 central dispatch service. The operation has come under criticism lately by the county's police chiefs, who have said they don't have enough input in its administration. Domas said he is confident Arbic will be able to mend fences and improve communications with the heads of law enforcement and other emergency response agencies such as the county's fire departments and EMS.
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