Tag Archives: emergency response
A Valuable Lesson from Hurricane Florence
One of the first of numerous natural disasters to which I responded throughout the world was a hurricane along the coast of my home state, South Carolina. I never realized the journey that one small response would take me. I don’t even recall the name of that storm! Hurricane Florence hitting the Carolinas last September […]
Wildfire Recovery
2018 has been another historic year in British Columbia for wildfires. I say another, because 2017 was an historic year, as mentioned in a blog last year. The number of wildfires this year has surpassed 2017, as well as the number of hectares burned. Admittedly, the fires have been generally smaller this year, as well […]
A Beast….of a Canadian wildfire
I’d like to continue on the theme of wildfire as a threat here in western Canada, because, although it’s only April, we are living it out before our eyes. Widespread fires in northeastern BC and Alberta have erupted. Even international news outlets have reported a fire, called The Beast, in northern Alberta. The 80,000 residents of the oil and […]
Lessons from the Titanic
Much has been written about the century-old Titanic disaster, which caused 1,514 deaths on April 14-15, 1912. It is an interesting case study of a series of events that sent this ‘unsinkable’ ship to a watery grave. No single factor caused the tragedy, but rather what we call an ‘event cascade’. I recently gave a […]
What a Traffic Jam…A Livestock Rollover Accident!
All of us have seen auto accidents, and many of us have been involved in a collision – hopefully nothing more than a fender bender. However, we know that some accidents are a tragic — involving police, ambulances, lane closures, and tying up traffic for hours. Although not very common, an example of this is […]
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