Categories: Do 1 Thing, Preparedness
May 17th, 2013 11:04 am ET - Blog Administrator
By Cate Shockey
This blog is part of a series, covering a preparedness topic each month from the Do 1 Thing Program. Join us this month as we discuss preparedness at work, school, and in your community.
No matter where you are, you need to know how to make sure you and your loved ones are safe in an emergency. If you’re not at home during an emergency, do you know what the plan is for your work, child’s school, or community?
Categories: Disease Investigation, Disease Outbreak, General, Preparedness, Prevention/Vaccination, Response
May 7th, 2013 12:55 pm ET - Blog Administrator
Taking on the role of interim CDC director can be an intimidating task, but an impending pandemic can make the position exponentially more daunting. This is the situation Dr. Richard Besser faced in 2009 when he stepped into his new job. But Besser took the task head on and guided the country’s premier health agency through the H1N1 outbreak with skill and confidence. Through this experience Besser saw first hand how important communication is to building the publics’ trust and improving health behaviors.
Categories: Do 1 Thing, General, Preparedness
April 24th, 2013 8:09 am ET - Blog Administrator
By Cate Shockey
This blog is part of a series, covering a preparedness topic each month from the Do 1 Thing Program. Join us this month as we tackle “food.”
A delicious topic – food! As a super picky eater with minimal cooking skills, a prepackaged stockpile is right up my alley.
The Do 1 Thing task of the month is to work on your emergency food supply. CDC encourages storing enough food for at least three days if you have to evacuate, and a two week supply for your home.
Categories: General, Preparedness
April 3rd, 2013 8:54 am ET - Blog Administrator
By: Ethan M. Riley
Staff meetings for the Arizona Division of Emergency Management (ADEM) Public Information Office (PIO) are pretty run of the mill. We review the past week’s accomplishments, divvy up assignments for the coming week and forecast projects for the weeks ahead. We talk a lot of “shop,” but also make time to dish on our favorite subject …lunch. So it did not come as a great surprise to those who know me or my colleagues that the ADEM PIO office would start a “Whole Community” campaign called the Emergency Kit Cook-Off.
Categories: General, Natural Disasters, Preparedness
March 27th, 2013 9:39 am ET - Blog Administrator
By Victoria Harp
When asked, leaders in communities everywhere will say that communication is by far the biggest problem during an emergency. Communication is such a broad term that it does not pinpoint the problem. Is it actual communication systems like phone lines and cell towers? Is it the communication you receive or try to obtain in an emergency? Is it communication to the people you are responsible for? Is it communication from the people you are responsible for? The question becomes how do we go about addressing these issues? Start small and focus on one solution to one communication problem.
Categories: General, Natural Disasters, Preparedness, Response
March 12th, 2013 12:00 am ET - Blog Administrator
By Daniel Homsey
Often a city‘s identity is attached to a significant event in its past, and for San Francisco that event is the Earthquake of 1906. That fateful event, in which thousands perished and our City burned to the ground, captured the attention of the whole world. Its legacy forged a commitment in the psyche of every San Franciscan – never again.
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