Mitigation Journal

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MJ#61: Rochester 9-1-1 Operator Abuses Terrorist List, National Preparedness Month Tip, and Courage to be Safe! May 28, 2011

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This week on Mitigation Journal:
Special welcome to Jason, listening to us from Fredrick County, MD!
A Rochester 9-1-1 operator has been accused of searching data bases including the Terrorism Watch List with 277 names. The searches seemed to have been conducted in January of 2006 and again in October or 2007. Officials believe she intended (or maybe already has) passed information along to "others". Knowing if you or others are on the Terrorist Watch List would be a major piece of intel should you want to carry out an attack...here or anywhere. By the way, the (now ex-) 9-1-1 operator claims discrimination because she is Muslim. I'm going to take this seriously.
September is National Preparedness Month! Our Preparedness Tip this week is: Knowing what you childs school emergency plan is vital in cases of emergency or disaster. Do you know what your childs school is going to do in the event of a natural disaster or other crisis? Request a copy of you childs school's emergency plan for these event...keep it and read it.
Courage to be Safe - So Everyone Goes Home: What are you prepared to do to prevent line of duty death? Last week on MJ I told you what a tremendous program this was...easily among the most meaningful presentations I've ever seen. This week I talk to Paul Melfi, the New York State Advocate for Courage to be Safe. Paul is a well known fire instructor and a retired Deputy Chief. Paul puts it on the table concerning firefighting safety...listen to him!
Check out Courage to be Safe - So Everyone Goes Home at www.everyonegoeshome.com

MJ 208: Good School Security Training Gone Bad May 14, 2011

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Edition 208 -

Good school security training gone bad

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Hosted by Rick Russotti, CI/C, EMTP

CoHost Matt Comer, EMTP

Special Guest this week: Daniel J. McGuire, FAAETS, CATSM from CISM Perspectives

Time to Re-Launch Apr 21, 2011

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I'm going to try to explain the absence of MJ from blgging and podcasting for the last few months. We'll be putting up new content the first week of May, 2011. Tune in!

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Matt and I will be back shortly.

Lessons Learned Pre Planning Mar 07, 2011

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MJ146A; Sepecial Addition - LOCATE for EMS and Fire Size-Up and Assessment Feb 28, 2011

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In this edition of Mitigation Journal:
It seems simple enough; before you can provide treatment and transportation you have to find the person in need of your service. Actually finding the patient is only part of the job. Providers of emergency medical service (EMS) at all levels must prepare themselves prior to reaching the scene or patient for a variety of potential actions and outcomes. Waiting to arrive on-scene to develop a care plan or mental review of the potential scenarios places both provider and patient at a disadvantage. The fire services use the process of pre-incident planning and size-up to prepare firefighters for potential needs or dangers of any given situation. Pre-incident planning can be used to anticipate additional resources and special needs of a situation. Emergency medical services can and should do the same.
EMS and fire service text are filled with acronyms that have become part of daily conversation. Acronyms are memory aids that range from the simple ABCDE’s that remind us of the basics of patient assessment to SLUDGE as a memory jog for organo-phosphate exposure symptoms. In this installment we will introduce the acronym LOCATE as a means of assessing not only the patient, but the scene and patient needs as a whole.