01.12.2012 By Stephen Box RETHINKING LA – The fastest growing demographic group in America is senior citizens, a simple fact that should be guiding the City of LA as it goes through the charade of emergency preparedness planning, but one that isn’t even part of the dialogue. The essence of emergency preparedness is based [...]
2012 C.E.R.T training schedule: Academy 46 – February 9, 2012 to March 31, 2012 Academy 47 – September 6, 2012 to October 27, 2012 The Redondo Beach Fire Department C.E.R.T. Academy began in April 1996, with overwhelming success. To date, over 1000 individuals have received training. The C.E.R.T. concept is based on increasing disaster preparedness awareness within the [...]
Reductions in public health budgets at the federal, state and local levels threaten to further weaken disaster response, a report says. By Carolyne Krupa, amednews staff The country has made significant strides since the 2001 terrorist attacks in the ability of physicians, hospitals, health departments and others to respond to disasters. But …
COPE Preparedness suggests that assembling a disaster-preparedness kit can be fun! We all know that those New Years resolutions make it to about the third week in January and then are forgotten as quickly as they are made. Maybe if we could make one of those resolutions just a little more fun, it …
The latest investigative report on the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, released Wednesday, is an important reminder of industry’s past carelessness and a summons to vigilance in the future. It could not have been more timely, coming just as the Interior Department was concluding its first auction of …
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