Most emergency management programs in small and mid-sized jurisdictions run on thin budgets, and the capability you wish you had usually gets built with grant money or not at all. I have spent twenty-five years in this field, and one of the most useful things I ever learned was how [...]
Most people picture emergency management as sirens, sandbags, and someone in a windbreaker pointing at a map on the news. That is a small slice of a much bigger profession. Emergency management is the discipline of reducing risk before disasters, coordinating the response when they happen, and guiding communities through [...]
Exercises exist for one reason: to find the gaps in your plans, people, and equipment while the price of failure is still a red face in a conference room instead of a bad day in the field. After 25 years in this business, I have watched exercises change agencies and [...]
