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BLOG: 20 years in
#EmergencyManagement
, looking backwards and to the future
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20 years in Emergency Management
I started my career in emergency planning twenty years ago this week. I don’t keep a diary, but I remember the exact day because it coincided with what remains the costliest tornado in UK history. …
https://mtthwhgn.com/20-years-in-emergency-management/
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Now available to order… “𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀” featuring a chapter I was honoured (and a bit daunted) to contribute 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises
This edited book investigates how disaster-related experiences and needs of LGBTIQA+ people differ across national, cultural, and regional boundaries.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-3857-4
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Feels like we’re gonna hear a lot about ‘COBRA’ again…so how about a little explainer 🧵
5 months ago
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Spent the afternoon with my team creating kintsugi masterpieces, and talking about resilience, patience and perfection
5 months ago
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Talking about crisis response assumptions (I.e. dispelling the panic myth),
@profbrookerogers.bsky.social
says “Hollywood has a lot to answer for!”
6 months ago
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Do they?
#EMGbluesky
#DRR
8 months ago
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Pigeons, acronyms and ‘what is an emergency planner anyway’
@lucygobag.bsky.social
with Michael Rosen.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Disaster Dialogue
Professor Lucy Easthope explains why language is important in the aftermath of a disaster.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001z6q1
9 months ago
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Interval post: I’ve been transported to 1997 for
#KyotoPlay
. This show is sensational - if you’re in London, don’t miss it!
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An upbeat Monday morning listen: Graves & Memorial Benches on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Thinking Allowed - The Grave - Memorial Benches - BBC Sounds
Laurie Taylor explores the origins of the grave and the meaning of memorial benches.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001rh59
9 months ago
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It can feel like lessons aren’t learned, but perhaps learning occurs outside of the emergency management domain? This article about The Station fire, 22 years ago today, talks to that.
www.firerescue1.com/firefighting...
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Station Nightclub fire: Lessons, code changes follow tragedy
The 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island was the fourth deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history
https://www.firerescue1.com/firefighting-history/articles/station-nightclub-fire-lessons-code-changes-follow-tragedy-VsJH1dv8rXfbtUlG/
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“There’s something about soup that makes it good for emergencies…” An interesting episode!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Essay - New Generation Thinkers - A Social History of Soup - BBC Sounds
Tom Scott-Smith uses four recipes to track social reforms and changes in what we value.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000v8qh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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What comes after disaster? Memories by Paul Goldberger explores some of the aspects.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
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Memories
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/12/08/memories-6
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9 months ago
Are we sure we’re not trapped in a disaster movie where no one listens to the scientists until it’s too late?
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Back from
#September5movie
- so relevant in an age of 24/7 news to explore journalistic ethics and the line between public interest/exploitation
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Why does it seem so difficult to learn lessons after a disaster? Join this webinar on 13 Feb to hear my thoughts.
emergencyservicestimes.com/events/how-t...
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https://emergencyservicestimes.com/events/how-to-break-the-cycle-of-failing-to-learn-from-incidents/
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"If you put it over Paris or London or New York, you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs,"
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ast...
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A "city-killer" asteroid has a slim chance to crash into Earth. Here's what to know.
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/asteroid-2024-yr4-chance-hit-earth-what-to-know/
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A Shrigley for the times we’re in
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“There’s often a desire to move on, if government…decides it wants to turn its face away, it’s difficult to maintain an interest” Tim Newburn PODCAST: What is the legacy of the 2011 riots? Imran Perretta for Somerset House
channel.somersethouse.org.uk/podcasts/pro...
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What is the legacy of the 2011 riots?
Imran Perretta explores what one site in Croydon tells us about the biggest moment of civil unrest in Britain in a generation.
https://channel.somersethouse.org.uk/podcasts/process/what-is-the-legacy-of-the-2011-riots
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What role does leadership have in crisis? Fascinating thoughts on the Emergency Services Times podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/6gbK...
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4. Rethinking emergency teams
For Every Response · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6gbKnLSvLRL1lTpvy29uTS?si=FdgGJrziRWG8RTG8-aO9LA
10 months ago
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Inviting people to consider ‘risk’ was a great jumping off point for conversations about career options and the skills employers look for in
#EmergencyManagement
@uclrdr.bsky.social
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Mike Rothschild
10 months ago
"We’re all stronger when our community thrives, and more people who weren’t burned out means fewer people who have to start over. Their wins are our wins. Life isn’t The Apprentice."
themikerothschild.com/2025/01/22/e...
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Eaton Fire #5: Hard Lessons
I’m an independent journalist and author with an uncertain road ahead. To support my writing, please subscribe to my Patreon page for as little as $5 per month, or Venmo me directly, @rothschildmd.…
https://themikerothschild.com/2025/01/22/eaton-fire-5-hard-lessons/
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Niall Pemberton
10 months ago
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Always donate
#cashnotstuff
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‘Overwhelming’: what happens to 50,000lbs of extra LA wildfire clothing donations?
Businesses like Suay Sew Shop are trying to salvage piles of damaged textiles – and warn of the dangers of climate impact and overconsumption
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/california-wildfires-clothing-donations-suay-sew-shop
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This is powerful and painful.
#EmergencyManagement
is magnificent and needed, but little understood, sometimes even from the inside.
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VIDEO: What do resilience structures look like in London?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vvH6...
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What do the resilience structures look like in London? (With subtitles)
YouTube video by London Plus
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vvH6_e_Jsrg
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Dr. Samantha Montano
10 months ago
Trump and the republicans who are involved in discussions about changing our approach to emergency management have multiple, not always complementary, goals and it is confusing people so let me walk through them.
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Gordon Guthrie
10 months ago
I repeat if the UK is serious about being a health powerhouse it needs to start head hunting all these folks now with visas and research funding
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I got crafty for my team meeting today - we were talking about
#RiskPerception
, the baggage we bring to the table, and the pros/cons of a matrix
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Required reading for the current
#discourse
!
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
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Are You Overreacting?
How to survive when provocations are a natural—and inescapable—part of life.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/are-you-overreacting
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Dr. Samantha Montano
10 months ago
~SOME NEWS~ My book Disasterology: Dispatches From The Frontlines of The Climate Crisis is being re-released in paperback on March 4th! It'll be the same as the hardcover just with an additional chapter on "The Problem With Climate Havens". You can pre-order here: www.disaster-ology.com
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The declaration of ‘terrorism’ is absolutely something that needs more clarity.
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The unprecedented use of “unprecedented” 🙃
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Dr. Samantha Montano
10 months ago
A THREAD on how disaster donations can be extremely harmful instead of helpful to communities experiencing a disaster. I'll be using the movie Clueless to illustrate this issue but there is also decades of disaster research about this and plenty of first-hand accounts.
#GreySky
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Emergency management efforts of cultural institutions get even less airtime than public authority emergency management arrangements. Good to see them covered here:
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Inside the dash to save the Getty Villa from the Palisades fire: A timeline
The Getty Villa activated its emergency operations center at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, and within two hours, the fast-moving blaze had reached the grounds. Here's how the staff, museum and precious art were...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-01-09/inside-the-dash-to-save-the-getty-villa-from-the-palisades-fire
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com
10 months ago
So it's clear to journalists & others trying to clarify priorities for cutting
#disasterrisk
in
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prone communities, here are the direct links to
@ciresnews.bsky.social
research: Continent-wide analysis finds invasive grasses increase fire risk about as much as climate change does.1/
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Listening: The Man Who Made MI6, from TRIclassified -
open.spotify.com/episode/4vom...
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8. The Man Who Made MI6
The Rest Is Classified · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4vomR87ZhlVC5DX08iEoCU?context=spotify:show:1Jn1HIW6I1AQnKVpsJHdEf&si=jEAGAqg3TCWmSx3KjRQ0Xw&t=789
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If you followed me at the other place, you’ll know I have a complicated relationship with
#EmergencyAlerts
, lately because of things like this…
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Dr Aunt Tara Goddard
10 months ago
Incarcerated firefighters are in the news (rightly so), and so I want to shout out the excellent work of my colleague
@jcarleepurdum.bsky.social
who has been on this beat for a while Disaster work is often carried out by prisoners
theconversation.com/disaster-wor...
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Disaster work is often carried out by prisoners – who get paid as little as 14 cents an hour despite dangers
Relying on incarcerated workers in emergencies such as the wildfires ravaging parts of the US is a cheap alternative for states. But what protections are there for prisoners?
https://theconversation.com/disaster-work-is-often-carried-out-by-prisoners-who-get-paid-as-little-as-14-cents-an-hour-despite-dangers-145513?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton
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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦
10 months ago
LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
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Daniel Swain
10 months ago
On Wed, Jan 8, I will host a NEW livestream (link below) starting at 8am PT to further discuss, contextualize, & track what has already become a devastating wildfire outbreak (& severe windstorm) in Southern CA. #CAwx #CAfire #PalisadesFire #EatonFire
youtube.com/live/TeY...
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Weather and climate office hours by Weather West: 01/8/25: Devastating wildfire outbreak in SoCal - YouTube
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme weather and c...
https://youtube.com/live/TeYxLjPXTao?feature=share
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Michele Tobias, PhD
10 months ago
My veterinarian's office sent out an email telling people about the threat of bird flu for cats. They suggested everyone keep their cats indoors and take other prevention methods. Here's more information they linked to:
www.avma.org/resources-to...
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Avian influenza A (H5N1) in cats
Since the U.S. outbreak of avian influenza A (H5N1) in dairy cattle began in March 2024, dozens of cats are known to have contracted the virus, including barn and feral cats, indoor cats, and big cats...
https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/animal-health-and-welfare/animal-health/avian-influenza/avian-influenza-h5n1-cats
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Compared to the generally ornate frames at Tate Britain this simple one got my attention today. It frames The Delgue by Winifred Knights, painted in 1920. It has links to flooding, war, and the 1917 Silvertown Explosion… 🧵
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In
#WhenThisIsOver
I wrote about the importance of COVID stories. With that in mind I’ve just booked to see Jab at Park Theatre.
parktheatre.co.uk/event/jab/
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Jab - Park Theatre
This ‘COVID-era defining play’ (★★★★ Theatre Weekly) explores power, gender, domestic violence and the limits of love when NHS worker Anne is forced to lockdown with anti-vaxxer husband.
https://parktheatre.co.uk/event/jab/
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“Victorian stories commemorate a profound, culturally shared grief. To dismiss them as old-fashioned is to assume they are outdated because of the passage of time”
theconversation.com/infectious-d...
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Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
https://theconversation.com/infectious-diseases-killed-victorian-children-at-alarming-rates-their-novels-highlight-the-fragility-of-public-health-today-242273
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Charley Stone
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#duvetknowitschristmas
My Mum is moving in Jan and has already boxed up pretty much the entire house, so I’m on a camp bed borrowed from a neighbour. The curtains were also boxed up “so I bought one from a charity shop - but when I got it home it turned out to be a tablecloth”
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Christmas Eve in 1818, in the small Austrian village of Oberndorf, the world was about to hear the beloved carol
#SilentNight
for the first time. But did you know its story is tied to a volcanic eruption and flooding? 🌋 🌊 🌡️ 🌍 🎵 Let me explain… 🧵 1/10
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“One cannot ignore the contribution the volunteers made” an interesting article on
#CycloneTracy
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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How Cyclone Tracy saw the birth of St John Ambulance NT
As Cyclone Tracy's ferocious winds lashed Darwin, St John Ambulance volunteers answered the calls for help, setting the stage for 50 years of service to the Northern Territory.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-13/cyclone-tracy-50-years-nt-st-john-ambulance-service/104701578?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=twitter&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
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French firefighters are LITERAL artists! Look at this ‘operational plan’ from the night of the
#NotreDame
fire!
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