Sounds of IAEM 2021
The Sounds of IAEM 2021, Join Todd and hear from the IAEM members who attended the 2021 Conference and Expo. We hope to see you in Savannah Georgia in 2022.
Oct 20, 2021•14 min
EM Weekly Podcast
EM Weekly is the podcast for emergency managers, by emergency managers. We’ll cover everything that impacts you as an emergency manager, including the latest in technology, preparedness, strategy, and tactics. Our goal is to provide you with real insights into the world of emergency management, as well as give you an opportunity to get to know the people behind the job. So grab a drink, pull up a chair, and join us for EM Weekly, where the conversation is always lively, informative, and predictably unexpected.
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The Information Sharing Environment and Emergency Management
This ISE-SAR Functional Standard is designed to support the sharing, throughout the Information Sharing Environment (ISE), of information about suspicious activity, incidents, or behavior that have a potential terrorism nexus. The ISE includes State and major urban area fusion centers and their law enforcement, 2 homeland security, 3 or other information-sharing partners at the Federal, State, local, and tribal levels to the full extent permitted by law. In addition to providing specific indicat...
Oct 14, 2021•32 min
Preparing for Recovery Helping Communities in the Post-Disaster
Emergency Managers must help communities prepare for and recover from a disaster. Post-disaster, they can use their knowledge of local resources and programs to help residents navigate the complexities of disaster recovery resources and programs. Mark O’Mara serves as Hagerty’s Director of Recovery. Mark is an experienced Disaster Recovery Project Manager with a demonstrated history in the recovery and grants management industries and strong background in design and construction. Over 13 years e...
Oct 07, 2021•34 min
Staffing Your EOC With Contract Workers, Can It Work?
Staffing during a disaster can become critical, this is where a company such as Krucial Staffing comes in. Krucial Staffing specializes in high volume, rapid response staffing, driven by a mission to serve others at their greatest time of need. With their pool of over 250,000 clinical and non-clinical reservists, Krucial can staff any disaster with speed and quality at a 100% fill rate within 48 hours. Krucial staffing has the nation’s largest volume of deployable clinical staff and a nationwide...
Sep 30, 2021•35 min
From Weatherman to Film Producer, The Making of The Last House Standing
As a former weatherman and reporter, George Siegal covered countless stories about people who lost everything in natural disasters. George Siegal produced and directed the documentary The Last House Standing. The title of the film was inspired by the single home that survived a direct hit from Hurricane in Mexico Beach Florida. In addition to exploring hurricanes, the film looks as fires, tornados and other hazards that the world is facing. This film is a wake-up call to everyone that we need to...
Sep 23, 2021•35 min
The Great ShakeOut 2021
International ShakeOut Day is always the third Thursday of October (this year: October 21). While COVID-19 has brought many uncertainties and challenges, one thing's for sure: ShakeOut is still happening this year! As always, you can hold your #ShakeOut drill when and where you want. You can choose another date or several dates, and include people in multiple locations (home, work, or school), perhaps through video conferencing. Mark Benthien Web - https://www.shakeout.org/index.html Twitter - h...
Sep 16, 2021•44 min
Bringing Resilience Home ( and Tribute to 9/11 Rick Rescorla Story)
Disaster resilience is the ability of individuals, communities, organizations, and states to adapt to and recover from hazards, shocks, or stresses without compromising long-term prospects for development. According to the Hyogo Framework for Action, disaster resilience is determined by the degree to which individuals, communities, and public and private organizations can organize themselves to learn from past disasters and reduce their risks to future ones, at international, regional, national,...
Sep 09, 2021•35 min
EM Weekly Kicks Off National Preparedness Month with Tactivate’s Jesse Levin
Tactivate brings practices and experts from these spheres with these capabilities to new venture launch and consultancy services. From the rapid activation of a project in a disaster-stricken environment or a neighborhood in an emerging market, our team’s design process, methodologies, and approach to rapid community building and project execution have been applied to a diverse range of challenges and ventures. Disaster Readiness While not conducting reactive disaster response operations, Tactiv...
Sep 02, 2021•34 min
AHIMTs Taking a Leadership Role in Disaster Response
The importance of leadership in emergency management is widely acknowledged Popular culture reinforces this focus. It is common for movies to portray charismatic leaders who “save the day” by simultaneously handling information, resources, and wild authority. It is also common for real situations to be compared to these idealized images and for individuals to be hailed as heroes. But it is not enough to know leaders matter and make summary judgments. It is vitally important to understand how lea...
Aug 26, 2021•33 min
What’s Happening at the Natural Disaster & Emergency Management Expo
The Natural Disaster & Emergency Management (NDEM) Expo, powered by global events leader, Reed Exhibitions, is a comprehensive trade event and online resource dedicated to the preparation, response, and recovery of physical and human assets of public and private organizations. NDEM will help your organization gain the knowledge, discover the tools, and connect with the individuals necessary to make your organization more secure and resilient, all while minimizing operational disruptions and ...
Aug 19, 2021•29 min
Principles of Leadership, The Dale Carnegie Way
We are joined by Steve Thomas from the Orange County’s Dale Carnegie office. Steve works with proven training techniques that give organizations real transformation. By providing tailored professional development and training solutions in the core areas of Leadership, Presentations, Interpersonal Skills, Team Building, Sales and Customer Service, Steve and the team at Dale Carnegie are able to align businesses to exceed their performance goals Although the more recent work of authors such as Abr...
Aug 12, 2021•35 min
The Crisis Response Journal , A Publication for Emergency Managers
In its 17th year, Crisis Response Journal is the global information resource covering all aspects of human-induced disasters or natural hazards, spanning response, disaster risk reduction, resilience, business continuity, and security. CRJ is about bringing agencies, disciplines, nations, and the private and public sectors together to understand their different roles and perspectives, thereby improving a unified response to large-scale crises or averting crises in the first place effective disas...
Aug 05, 2021•41 min
What Does It Mean To Be an EM Student?
This week we are talking to Franzi Economy the host of the EM Weekly show to discuss her journey in emergency management education, why she decided to pursue a post-graduate certificate in emergency management, what she is exploring with the EM Student Podcast, and how she sees the next generation of emergency managers taking on new threats and issues. Franzi, comes to EM Weekly with a background in Economics and is a great systems thinker. She is leading the EM Weekly team in developing systems...
Jul 29, 2021•33 min
Using Incident Management Teams In the Urban Setting
Consistent with past practice, Urban Areas began a collaborative process to establish All-Hazards Incident Management Teams (AHIMT) . Today we are taking a deep dive into the AHIMT process and seeks to identify challenges and obstacles to collaboration with FDNY BC Rich DePrima. There is minimal agreement about how much collaboration has taken place in developing the AHIMT programs. The benefits of collaboration are believed to include the sharing of resources, developing positive relationships ...
Jul 22, 2021•33 min
Why Emergency Managers Need to Support IAEM Student Chapters
IAEM Student Chapters offer experiences that cannot be had in a classroom environment, and offer students the opportunity to grow, both personally and professionally. IAEM Student Chapters also give students the opportunity to network within specific employer markets and with other students of similar interests. The experience gained through IAEM Student Chapters can help focus career aspirations and appeal to employers when they are making hiring decisions. IAEM Student Chapters offer leadershi...
Jul 15, 2021•31 min
Drones a Critical Asset for Emergency Operations
Drones in the emergency response space is not a new idea, however we have seen a growth of the application and use of drones by both small and large jurisdictions. Drones are a great tool. Today we sit-down with Chief Charles Werner (ret.) a world wide drone expert and director of Droneresponders. Drones empower emergency managers and first responders to evaluate serious disaster situations. With realtime information that complements the information reported from on the ground personnel, drones ...
Jul 08, 2021•33 min
Remote Working: And the Challenges to Emergency Management
With remote work more popular than ever, it’s important to consider the unique ways that emergencies and disasters may affect these employees. Employees who work from home should be sure to have a plan to deal with common emergencies and disasters. Technology can also help when it comes to emergency preparedness by enabling employees to connect to the internet, access important files and documents, and maintain a clear line of communication. Remote work during an emergency or disaster will indee...
Jul 01, 2021•33 min
The 46th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop: The Hazards and Disaster Workforce: Preparing to Meet 21st Century Chall
The 46th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop will be organized around the theme of The Hazards and Disaster Workforce: Preparing to Meet 21st Century Challenges. Our ability to reduce disaster risk has always depended on the people who do the work. This includes leaders who set a vision for a more just and sustainable future, researchers who push the boundaries of discovery, and practitioners who help prepare communities for a range of threats. As climate change accelerates...
Jun 24, 2021•32 min
Practical Application of Incident Command, Should It Be Overhauled?
The full organization of the ICS structure is large. However, the full organization is rarely implemented. The organization can expand and contract depending on how many people are needed at any given moment. In a large crisis, the whole structure could be implemented, but in a smaller incident, only one, two, or three of these positions might be filled. One person can fill more than one role. The rule of thumb is that every role that is left vacant is filled by the role above it. EM Weekly and ...
Jun 17, 2021•37 min
Private Sector Emergency Management How They Enhance The Profession
The changing scope and scale of disasters, both natural and technological, have altered the ways in which disaster management and financing are addressed and the roles of private-sector organizations specifically. Businesses and nonprofit organizations are increasingly central to the process, offering critical support in immediate disaster response but also contributing necessary redevelopment funding that supports community recovery. Although these new expectations position the private sector a...
Jun 10, 2021•39 min
Data Without Structure in Emergency Management Makes for Bad Decisions
Big data and analytics present myriad possibilities for emergency management specialists and first responders. Some of these benefits include understanding site-level impacts as they develop in real-time, adding value to programs such as Business Continuity, and creating intelligence to be used in the Planning Section of an Emergency Operations Centre. While computer-generated data has been a staple in decision-making processes for government and emergency personnel in the past, big data takes t...
Jun 03, 2021•15 min
Public Health Should They Take the Lead in Emergency Management?
In recent years, the health impacts of infectious disease outbreaks, natural disasters, industrial and environmental catastrophes, and conflict have captured the world’s attention and reinforced the importance of strengthening public health systems to better protect communities and populations from naturally occurring and human-caused threats. Various approaches and programs have been developed to address these needs in domestic and global contexts, including initiatives to strengthen public hea...
May 27, 2021•33 min
Behind the Mask
Behind the Mask allows readers to experience the unfiltered, horrific scenarios EMTs and Medics have been facing while manning the frontlines during this pandemic. After being sent into the epicenter of the United States twice during this outbreak and working directly alongside FEMA, David shares stories not experienced by many. So, follow along with this easy read as he takes you into his journey through the pandemic and shares the unimaginable struggles he and his fellow EMS personnel have bee...
May 20, 2021•30 min
Ethos Is Spreading the Word of Preparedness
CREATING A PREPAREDNESS MINDSET We shouldn’t assume that if people know how and why to prepare that the rest will take care of itself. In order to adopt the wisdom of preparedness, people need a confident understanding of the risks they face, they need to believe that preparedness actions will indeed protect them and their families, and they need an inspirational preparedness example from a relatable person. Ethos Preparedness Events aim to create an enduring preparedness mindset in your workpla...
May 13, 2021•38 min
5.11 The Story Behind The Brand
5.11 Tactical started in Modesto, California as a clothing line created by mountain climber Royal Robbins. Upon reaching the top of a climb in Yosemite California, he noticed that the trousers that he was wearing were not suited for climbing. Robbins decided that he needed to design something more durable and with better functionality. He owned a boot and clothing company and began manufacturing pants by the name of "5.11" that had a trademarked tactical strap and slash pocket design in 1968. IT...
May 06, 2021•35 min
Rise of the Emergency Manager: Restructuring Emergency Services in a Time of Civil Unrest
"The rise of civil unrest in 2020 is propelling the restructuring of culture, business, and cities in our society today. As Americans watch and experience a pandemic unfold and a sharp divide across political and economic lines, the mismanagement of public safety - including domestic terrorism - has been apparent to citizens, eager for the storms to calm. How will we respond? The new uprise of movements calls for new and innovative ways to manage them. Rise of the Emergency Manager is a fresh lo...
Apr 29, 2021•36 min
Career Planning for Emergency Managers: What is Your Next Step?
In the world of public safety, a rapidly changing environment creates a need for executive coaching. Leaders within our profession are constantly facing new challenges and the learning curve is very steep. With a massive number of retirements occurring, the leadership gap and the institutional knowledge leaving our organizations present very real and very large challenges. You may have younger, less experienced, but extremely talented leaders in your agency, who need to be ready sooner than late...
Apr 22, 2021•35 min
A Re-Framing of Incident Management Structures
We are taking a look at re-framing of the Incident Management Structures. It has been over 50 years since FIRESCOPE “created” the Incident Command System and the Incident Management Structures. Is it time to re-frame how emergency management and response operates? Timothy Riecker writes “After examining these models, I think most will agree that in incident management we really do use the Team of Teams model, but not to the fullest extent. Why is that? I think it’s primarily because we graphical...
Apr 15, 2021•38 min
Humor Keeps Us Healthy Developing a sense of humor about The challenges EMs Face
It’s a common phrase, that laughter is the best medicine, and first responders and emergency managers are well known for making it integral to our workspace. In the right context, laughter does provide evidence-based health benefits. Long-term physical and mental health gains for people working in high-stress jobs are critical. With a focus on its more immediate, short-term benefits, it comes as no surprise that we are heavily reliant on humor within the disaster response environment. Fire Dept....
Apr 08, 2021•30 min
The Efficient Use of POD During the COVID Pandemic
The City of Ontario California opened two POD’s to distribute COVID-19 Vaccines. Jordan Villwock joins us to explore what when right and how can other cities learn from them. Jordan is an experienced emergency manager that has participated in multiple POD exercises and events over the years. This may have been the biggest test of the POD system in the history of the United States. Links Jordan Villwock Web - https://www.ontarioca.gov/EmergencyManagement Twitter - https://twitter.com/ontariofired...
Apr 01, 2021•33 min
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