FAAT by the Fire - Unfiltered!
Emergency Management & Emergency Services through the eyes of first responders... Real conversations about the issues and challenges from a realistic approach... no punches pulled!
Episode 3 Let's Involve Everbody - It's Whole Community!
Whole Community -
What is it and why does it matter?
Understanding our audience, or customers is vital in being sable to provide a service to them. Whether that service is community safety and protection, EMS, or LE, we need to know our base and how best to communicate with them. This could mean anything from understanding that we need to communicate differently with different groups (Gen X/Y vs. our parents) through different methods, to knowing our communities that we serve and how they may view events differently.
With the advent of insta...
Episode 2 What's Emergency Management All About? Consequence Management!
So many of the groups and institutions that we have worked with feel like they are ready for any event that they may experience - they have trained, written plans, run exercises, and trained some more.
But the one area that we see as lacking time and again is planning for consequence management. The plans that many have written tend to be tactical in nature. The 'full scale active shooter' exercise tends to be a LE based functional that works on clearing schools and Fire/EMS responding to casualties - but most educational plans are missing the con...
