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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
Showing posts with label disaster drill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disaster drill. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009

HAWAII TRIBUNE HERALD: Tsunami drill Tuesday

Mayor: Every agency needs to be prepared for a disaster

Police will turn out at more than 100 intersections around the island Tuesday morning for a comprehensive tsunami drill and public information campaign.

In a real disaster, officers would set up roadblocks and redirect people to a safe location.

Instead, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., police will be handing out fliers that explain the nature of the drill and a map of the evacuation zone. Barricades will be dropped off at each intersection, but they won't be erected.
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Friday, January 23, 2009

JOURNAL-NEWS: Disaster preparedness - 167th participates in large-scale anthrax training

MARTINSBURG - A mock disaster drill that was the first of its kind to be conducted on such a large scale took place Thursday at the 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard.

The scenario involved the need for a C-5 Galaxy aircraft to make an emergency landing at the 167th base when the crew and passengers fell ill with flu-like symptoms on a returning flight from Afghanistan.

According to the drill, it is later determined through a series of tests that those on board have been exposed to anthrax from souvenirs such as rugs and other wool products brought home by the passengers aboard the aircraft.

Thursday's drill was unique in that there had never been a scenario involving the presence of a weapon of mass destruction on a C-5, according to guard representatives.

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YOUR4STATE.COM: Berkeley County Air Base Holds Largest Disaster Drill In History

BERKELEY COUNTY, WV - The 167th Airlift Wing in Berkeley County held the largest disaster drill in the history of the air base Thursday morning.

In the exercise, more than 20 military personnel were sickened with anthrax after bringing souvenirs back from a tour in Afghanistan.
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