Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. I have taught it every year since then.

Civil Emergency 130

Civil Emergency Pandemic All-Hazards Logistics 130

National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The fire at a Thai nightclub in early August 2022 was all too familiar. Many of the details emerging are eerily similar to The Station nightclub fire which claimed the lives of 100 people and injured 230 more in February of 2003. The smoke developed index is the same range for all three classifications.

All-Hazards 85

All-Hazards Hazard Emergency Response Emergency Response 85

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

Preparedness funding has ebbed and flowed over the years, peaking a few years after 9/11 and gradually decreasing with health security grant programs decreasing by a third to as much as half from their peaks, with similar reductions across all-hazards emergency management grant programs.

Pandemic 52

Pandemic Disaster Preparedness All-Hazards Government 52