Disaster Zone
Disaster Zone is hosted by Eric Holdeman, an emergency manager with over 30 years of experience at the federal, state and local levels of government. Disaster Zone is a podcast that focuses on all facets of disasters; the before, during and after of events that are increasingly impacting communities around the world. Podcasts run between 35-45 minutes with a mix of guests covering a range of disasters and issues that flow from them.

Story topics and suggestions for people to interview are welcomed. You can contact the host via email.



Episoder(239)

Leading in a Crisis

Leading in a Crisis

Not everyone can lead during a crisis. Some think they can, others fear that they will not be up to the task. Sometimes the crisis finds you, whether you are ready or not. In this podcast, Pete Gaynor...

24 Jan 202354min

Three Years Later--What did we learn from COVID?

Three Years Later--What did we learn from COVID?

Can you believe it—we are coming up on the three year anniversary of the COVID Pandemic. In this podcast we explore the challenges that we faced collectively and then in particular for public health a...

17 Jan 202345min

Latest EOC Technology

Latest EOC Technology

Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) are the facilities where governments and other organizations coordinate and manage their response to disasters. They are a critical element in being able to respond ...

10 Jan 202346min

$10 Billion Dollar Disaster Recovery in the U.S. Virgin Islands

$10 Billion Dollar Disaster Recovery in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Adrienne Williams-Octalien, is the Director of the Office of Disaster Recovery for the U.S. Virgin Islands. Except in her case the job was – and is – arguably more daunting, five years after back-to-b...

3 Jan 202341min

Defunding Emergency Managment

Defunding Emergency Managment

This week’s Disaster Zone Podcast is a commentary from Eric Holdeman on the topic of Defunding Emergency Management. The title is there to get your attention and make everyone think about the grant ra...

27 Des 20228min

Risk and Crisis Communications

Risk and Crisis Communications

One of emergency management’s major partners in all things concerning disasters, from the preparation phase to the response and recovery is our public information/affairs officers who support what we ...

20 Des 202251min

New Research on How Wildfires are Impacting State Budgets

New Research on How Wildfires are Impacting State Budgets

Wildfires are dramatically impacting state budgets as they deal with wildfire response, the damages from those fires and ways they might mitigate future wildfires. These are the topics we’ll cover in ...

13 Des 202237min

Public Information Strategies in the Pandemic

Public Information Strategies in the Pandemic

Public Information Officers (PIO) had their work cut out for them in responding to the COVID pandemic. King County Washington was the first place in the USA that a death from COVID occurred. We explor...

6 Des 202246min

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