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?
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
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
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
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 Dec 20228min
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 Dec 202251min
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 Dec 202237min
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 Dec 202246min
