TRANSPORTATION ARCHIVES
EMS Professionals and the CERTification of Volunteers
Joseph Cahill
October 10, 2007
The willingness of so many citizen volunteers to serve on Community Emergency Response Teams adds an extra dimension of capability to already overworked (and sometimes overwhelmed) EMS staffs. There are a few precautions also worth noting, though.
Homeland Security and Community-Oriented Policing
Joseph Watson
September 26, 2007
The experience of one local agency in using funds provided by a federal education-and-information grant to develop a community-oriented program may serve as a helpful template for other agencies to follow both to qualify for the same type of funding and to serve as a model for team building. The
Partnerships in Interoperability: A Best Practices Model
Kay C. Goss
September 26, 2007
It is axiomatic in the EM (emergency management) community both that regional collaboration is the foundation of emergency management and that interoperability of equipment – one of the keys to a successful collaboration – is 10 percent technology and 90 percent governance. But collaboration cannot be mandated; it has to
Building a Strong Emergency-Management Profession
Kay C. Goss
September 11, 2007
One of the nation’s foremost experts in the still emerging field of emergency management provides her insider’s point of view of the guiding principles – including both a vision and a mission statement – on which this important new field was founded.
Preparing Hospitals for Use as Fallout Shelters
Kirk Paradise
September 11, 2007
Forward-looking planners in Huntsville, Alabama, are seeking to determine the feasibility of using medical facilities as fallout shelters to cope with mass-casualty incidents involving a nuclear or “dirty” bomb.
Rear Admiral David P. Pekoske, USCG, and Rear Admiral Brian M. Salerno, USCG
John F. Morton, David P. Pekoske and Brian M. Salerno
September 11, 2007
Their views on current and future maritime-security operations, the USCG’s relationships with other agencies, new security standards being considered, and the service’s interface with the Navy, CBP, and various port stakeholders.
Debris Monitors – Cleaning Up and Clearing Out
Kirby McCrary
September 5, 2007
The crisis is not really “over” until the paperwork has been completed – in full, on time, and frequently in triplicate. In the field of debris removal adherence to that old saying is sometimes the difference between bankruptcy and prosperity.
James Lee Witt, CEO, James Lee Witt Associates
John F. Morton and James Lee Witt
September 5, 2007
The former FEMA administrator discusses the agency’s reorganization process, the proposed establishment of a national catastrophic-insurance fund, FEMA’s working relationship with the ARC, and the rationale for upgrading the agency to cabinet-level.
National Guard Takes Center Stage in HD/DO Op Orders
Jonathan Dodson
August 22, 2007
Colonel Jonathan Dodson, USA (Ret.), stopped by the DomesticPreparedness offices again to provide an updated briefing on the structure and workings of the National Guard’s Joint Force Headquarters – State (JFHQ – State). Following are excerpts from his remarks in response to questions from Managing Editor John F. Morton.DomPrep: Colonel,
The Doctors Plot – Its Implications for America
David P. Wright
August 15, 2007
Security experts dismiss the attempt by Islamic doctors to blow up a London nightclub as an “amateurish” operation. But that misses the real point, which is that physicians – people who know how to make biological weapons – are now on the terrorist team.
How to Expand the EMS Talent Pool
Glen Rudner
August 8, 2007
In planning for large-scale terrorist incidents, U.S. decision-makers at all levels of government – local, state, and federal – must consider, among other things, how to triage and transport the maximum number of casualties at the incident scene with the probably limited assets available. Many first-responder agencies already keep emergency
Sheltering Against the Ultimate – A Nuclear Detonation in a U.S. City
Kirk Paradise
August 1, 2007
The good news is that the fallout shelters built during the Cold War never had to be used. The bad news is that they might have to be resurrected, refurbished and reconditioned, and made available as “just in case” protection facilities.
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