Category: Whole Community

Emergency Kit Cook-Off: A Dash of Planning… Pinch of Preparedness… a World of Difference

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 Read More >

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Solving a Communication Gap with Partners in Preparedness

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 Read More >

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Advancing a City’s Resilience, One Neighborhood at a Time

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 Read More >

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