By Giles Hoback III
Faculty Member, Emergency and Disaster Management at American Military University
In today’s world of planning for all types of threats and hazards, cross-training, and multi-agency responses, the need for educated and experienced emergency management personnel is …
By Grant Adkins, Faculty Member, Emergency and Disaster Management at American Military University
Murphy’s Law states: “If anything can go wrong, it will” (Avidor, 2013). The history of emergency and disaster management is replete with mistakes made from complacency, lack …
By Anthony S. Mangeri, MPA, CPM, CEM
It is not always what caused a multiple casualty incident that matters. What matters is the ability of the community to respond effectively. Effective response begins with planning, training, and exercising community emergency …
There are just mere hours left before steep and harsh federal spending cuts, known as sequestration, kicks in. Sequestration is a term first used by Congress in 1985 and describes when the government spends more than it …
By Leischen Stelter
I have to admit, the first day of the International Association of Emergency Managers here in Orlando has been a strange one. People are attempting to go about business as usual, preparing for the largest conference of emergency managers, but it’s obvious our collective minds are with those who can’t be here because of Hurricane Sandy.
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