Hurricane Matthew USAR Response – Part 1

In this special disaster response segment for the Disaster Podcast is a visit with Dr. Joe Holley who is freshly back from his deployment with the federal response to Hurricane Matthew’s hit on the east coast of the U.S. Hosts Jamie Davis, the Podmedic and Sam Bradley are joined by Kevin Reiter from WildSafety.com and BJ Schneider from XiphosBooks.net to join our discussion.

Dr. Joe spends the first part of this two-part episode talking about the initial staging of federal resources including himself and another Emergency Physician as part of the Incident Support Team (IST). The IST’s were placed in advanced staging locations early in the preparations for the Hurricane’s impact in order to direct federal resources to the locations with the greatest need. Joe was eventually staged further forward on the coast of North Carolina in order to oversee operations there for some of the 10 USAR teams sent to the southeastern U.S. in response to the Hurricane Matthew disaster.

Check out our Facebook group for the Disaster Podcast if you want to see some amazing photos of the rescuers and rescuees during Joe’s deployment.

Paragon Brings “The Experience”

Paragon Medical Education Group specializes in bringing what they call “The Experience” to jurisdictions around the country. They bring together police, fire, EMS, and hospital teams to train together and learn what to expect from each diverse group in the response team so that each knows what to expect from the other and how to back the other groups up. Visit Paragon’s site at ParagonMedicalGroup.com for more information on how this can be brought into your system.

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