VOLUNTEERISM ARCHIVES
Discovery Channel TV Series: The Colony – Week Four
Adam Montella
August 12, 2009
The volunteers continue their efforts to build a new and better world from the destruction all around them. But they also must take time to protect themselves from attack by other survivors not as well intentioned.
Discovery Channel TV Series: The Colony – Week Three
Adam Montella
August 5, 2009
After securing the basic necessities for survival, episode three found the volunteers focusing on the one creature comfort they can’t live without: a hot shower. But focusing on comfort left them open to a massive attack that threatened their long-term survival. The take away lesson is how to cope with
Discovery Channel TV Series: The Colony – Week Two
Adam Montella
July 29, 2009
The ten volunteers continue their efforts to create a new civilization despite attempts by the Marauders seeking to steal the basic essentials found in the abandoned warehouse. The greatest challenges facing the volunteers, though, are their own fears and uncertainties.
Discovery Channel TV Series: The Colony – Week One
Adam Montella
July 22, 2009
No one knew exactly what happened, or how much damage their world had suffered. But they all knew that life would never again be the same. They were few in number, but they had somehow survived. By joining together they might continue to survive. But how, and for how long?
Emergency Management & Special Events: Challenges, Support, Best Practices
Kay C. Goss
July 15, 2009
There are few if any challenges so daunting to emergency managers than the planning and implementation of the security measures needed to protect the principals and attendees at NSSEs and other highly publicized events. The greatest success occurs when nothing happens.
London 2012: Protecting the Olympic Games
Andy Oppenheimer
July 8, 2009
The greatest challenge facing UK and London officials will not be the staging of a worthy successor to China’s sterling 2008 Games, but maintaining tight security in an open society where the cuisine may be less varied but freedom and diversity are much more highly valued.
Mid-Atlantic Officials Cite Progress, Continuing Challenges
Daniel Brethauer
July 1, 2009
Recent AHC (All-Hazards Consortium) meeting in Wilmington (Del.) serves as a working model for all states and regions seeking to institute and/or improve cooperative multi-state programs, funding efforts, and mutual-assistance agreements.
Wisconsin (The Adjutant General) TAG Holds e-town Hall
Wisconsin National Guard
June 27, 2009
The online town hall session is one of the methods the Wisconsin National Guard is using to communicate with internal and external audiences.
Trauma & Burn Centers – Coping with MCI Disasters
Theodore Tully
June 24, 2009
Numerous mass-casualty incidents have demonstrated the value of building and staffing a number of medical centers dealing primarily with trauma and burn patients. But even those centers may not be able to care for all victims of a “mega-disaster” such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Mass Prophylaxis: The Brass Ring of Public Health Preparedness
Bruce Clements
May 27, 2009
It sounds like a mission impossible, but U.S. public health officials are determined to find a way to provide pandemic medications, within 48 hours, to everyone within a major metropolitan area endangered by pandemic influenza or a potentially lethal bioterrorism attack.
Double the Trouble: H5N1 Plus Cat 3 Complications
Ann Marie Brown and Jeffrey B. Peterson
April 1, 2009
A major epidemic to deal with is difficult enough in itself. Toss in a hurricane about to make landfall and the situation becomes impossible. Or it would have been if ServNC, the SMAT IIs, the NCOEMS, CDC, ESAR-VHP, and two FMSS trailers had not been available.
Pandemic Preparedness: Strategies to Protect the State Workforce
David G. Henry
March 10, 2009
H5N1 avian influenza has recently resurged in Southeast Asia, scientists continue to warn that the next pandemic, based on all scientific data, is inevitable.
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