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Dr. Hamza Alshargabi is a surgeon who's treated casualties in Syria and Yemen. Despite sometimes being in the middle of serious conflict, he enjoys what he calls the "clinical" work of helping a person in crisis. He's also driven to help people and communities in crisis, so he devotes much of his time to the emergency management profession. During our interview, Hamza describes emergency management in the Middle East, the underlying and sometimes conflicting social setting there, and the opportunities he sees to improve the profession.
Dana Carey is an emergency manager operating under a city, county, special district and Native American Nation agreement to mitigate, prepare, respond and recover - together. She describes the agreement, the outcomes they accomplish and the important values inherent in the partnership.
We recently caught-up with Ellis Stanley, a tremendous contributor to emergency management over the past 30 years. He shared with us how the profession has changed since the 1970s and reinforced what has always been required of a successful emergency manager.
Public/Private Partnership - the phrase is wonderfully alliterative, gets used a lot, and makes good sense to implement, but the capability still hasn't found its way into many emergency management programs. Join us as was speak with Jim Turner, Executive Director of the California Resiliency Alliance, to hear what's working, what's not, and how to fix it.
Running a successful social media program for public safety requires a lot of thought, trust, discipline and, frankly, humility. Liz Evangelatos is a local government employee who knows this and spends part of her time running a program for her jurisdiction. In this podcast, Liz shares how to set-up an efficient and exceptionally effective social media program, even with limited resources.
The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake provided a devastating reminder of California's propensity for shaking, the vulnerability of buildings and infrastructure, and how much we rely on community preparedness. One of the great successes of Loma Prieta recovery is a new model for community preparedness - a network of non-profit organizations working together to promote life skills that include disaster preparedness. Ana-Marie Jones leads one, if not the first, organization to employ this new, successful model.
Pete Turner was trained to be an army counterintelligence agent. He estimates he’s been on 1000 combat patrols - not to fight but to listen. His job was to develop relationships and cooperation in some of the most dangerous and difficult environments on the planet. Pete talks about what it’s like and what it takes to advance a mission within a community -- door-to-door, town-to-town, strategically, tactically and successfully.
Building an emergency operations center, managing an EOC team, developing plans, conducting training and exercising involve plenty of work, but there’s much more to administering a county disaster program. Laura is a recently-retired emergency manager who candidly shared her view looking back on her 30-year career in the profession as well as the emotional and physiological impacts of the job.
Emergency managers have enough to do on a day-to-day basis, but when a major emergency or disaster happens, the job gets much more complex. Disaster Cost Recovery is a phrase most often used to describe efforts by local, state and certain non-profit organizations to obtain post-disaster grants to reimburse their response costs and repair damage. Jerry has worked as an advocate for sub-recipients (organizations that seek-out these grants) for almost 30 years. He sat down with us and discussed what effective disaster cost recovery is all about.
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