Using LinkedIn for Good
For those that have been on LinkedIn for the past decade you've seen changes. Originally it was a site where professionals were connecting and engaging in discussions on a wide [...]
For those that have been on LinkedIn for the past decade you've seen changes. Originally it was a site where professionals were connecting and engaging in discussions on a wide [...]
Kevin Dawson a semi-retired fire-fighter got a hold of me through LinkedIn asking if I would take a look at his product. I am very picky when it comes to [...]
Ask this question of most public safety personnel and they will respond "my safety is most important, because if I am injured or killed, I can't do anyone any good", [...]
I was tasked to develop a ground truth appreciation presentation for this year's Pathfinder Minutemen 2017 Cascadia exercise in Oregon. We're anticipating 10-12 Medical Rapid Response Teams (120-144 medical personnel) to [...]
When I operated a hospital-based ambulance service decades ago we offered free education to rural and frontier volunteer EMS organizations. The service would house and feed us and we would [...]
I am in the process of writing a new book, Healthcare Emergency Incident Management Operations Guide. My goal in writing this book was to provide readers with a straight forward [...]
On this day in 1972 a 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua, killed more than 10,000 people and left 250,000 homeless. With family in Nicaragua now and frequent travels there I [...]
It's been educational for me to look back to see how many events of the past are born anew to a new generation. One day this week an event took [...]
The death toll from a devastating blaze in and around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee rose to 13 on Friday December 21, 2016. The highest loss of [...]
In my last post I also looked back at history and was quite surprised during the week watching the news. The consequences of the killer smog event of 50 years [...]