Melbourne | 9 May 2012 Victoria Police will take a lead role in a National Counter Terrorism Committee funded emergency management exercise at Melbourne Airport on Wednesday 9 May. Exercise Hades is a multi-jurisdictional exercise that involves emergency services and other Government agencies working collaboratively to test their capacity and capability in responding to...
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South Australia | Donating guidelines to help communities in need following a disaster
Adelaide | 27 April 2012 Attorney-General and Minister for Emergency Management Nicola Roxon and Emergency Services Minister Jennifer Rankine will today launch guidelines to ensure that communities in need receive appropriate donations following a disaster. The National Guidelines for Managing Donated Goods was created to give communities clear advice on the most effective way...
Rick Tobin | The Road to Ready archives
Rick Tobin’s radio show, “The Road to Ready,” which had over 50 programs, each with a different topic area for emergencies and related events, is still available in a free archive at: http://lnkd.in/sGd_jA provided by the fine folks at ESi, the home of WebEOC. The Road to Ready internet radio show aired in 2008...
Big Medicine welcomes occasional contributors with interesting perspectives
Big Med is always open to occasional contributors willing to share an interesting perspective on any topic as long as it somehow relates to emergency management. There’s no money to share however as our Tribal Elders will tell you, writing a piece in Big Med ensures your words will find a global audience in...
Maryland | Baltimore County Fire Department news updates available on Twitter
Towson | 25 March 2012 The Baltimore County Fire Department is now on Twitter, @BACOfiredept. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BACOfiredept to receive real-time news updates about the following types of incidents: Multi-alarm fires Significant hazardous materials and special operations calls Significant rescues Community emergencies (e.g., water main breaks, power outages) Unusual or multi-patient EMS incidents...
California | Emergency planning for developmentally disabled people
San Diego County | 9 March 2012 By definition, disasters are chaotic and frightening. Now imagine what it would look like to someone with autism, Alzheimer’s disease, or someone who is developmentally disabled. The goal of emergency planners is to make the experience more reassuring and less confusing for everyone. County and city emergency...
South Australia | Alert SA – social media messages in an emergency
Adelaide | 8 March 2012 Alert SA – a one-stop website with vital information about South Australian emergencies – will go live this morning. The site brings together social media messages from SA Police, Country Fire Service, Metropolitan Fire Service, State Emergency Service and the Bureau of Meteorology via Twitter, Facebook and RSS. Alert...
Rick Tobin | 2012 weather impacts you may not have considered
Most of us who’ve been through enough seasons of rough weather that we could be aged by our rings, like trees, are not surprised by the recent horrific tornado strikes and intense storms. However, for those of you with a more urban experience, and less natural-events scar tissue, let me apprise you of some...
Victoria | Trial of single emergency website
VIC | 17 Feb 2012 The Fire Services Commissioner is sponsoring a trial of a single integrated website, which will test the concept of one website providing emergency information to the public. The initiative came about after the February 2009 bushfires, when it was suggested that the community should have access to information relating...
USA | Champions of Change : The Importance of Community Preparedness and the Whole Community
Washington DC | 20 Jan 2012 “All disasters are local,” so goes the saying. From the moment an event or disaster happens, citizens are the first, most directly affected. For this reason, programs like the Arkansas Citizen Corps and many others like it, around the country, spend countless hours and dollars ensuring that members...
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