Podcast

• December 3, 2021Podcast

  Disaster Family Liaison Officer Training with Moose Mutlow

  Wilderness Search and Rescue educator, Moose Mutlow, joins the Disaster Podcast team for this week's episode. Just the beginning of his bio at MooseMutlow.com says: Moose has over 30 years of traditional and alternative education experience around the globe.

• November 28, 2021Podcast

  2021 TrekMedics International Update

  Jason Friesen, MPH, EMT-P from TrekMedics.org joins disaster podcast co-hosts Sam Bradley and Jamie Davis on today's episode. Jason stops by to share an update of his organization's innovative mobile phone software and how it continues to help people around the world provide emergency services to their communities without 1st world infrastructure.

• November 19, 2021Podcast

  First Responders and Holiday Work Stress

  Today on the Disaster Podcast, we invited Dan McGuire from CISM Perspectives to come by the show and talk about Stress and the Holiday Season for First Responders. He talks about the importance of understanding the increased expectations most people have surrounding the holidays and how living up to those expectations and traditions can be difficult.

• October 29, 2021Podcast

  Disaster Winter Weather Preparedness

  The topic for today's show is winter weather preparedness. We talk with our meteorologists about how the weather is turning colder and still shows active severe weather patterns across the U.S. We discuss how weather even affects health and wellness in unusual ways with Dr. Joe Holley.

• October 15, 2021Podcast

  Managing Active Shooter Patients

  In this episode, the Disaster Podcast team gets together to discuss the triaging and management of patients in an active shooter situation. Part of the discussion turns to the recent attack with a bow and arrow in Norway that killed five people.

• October 8, 2021Podcast

  Managing Disasters: A Look at Hurricane Ida in Louisiana

  Today on the show, we have Chris Hector, Administrative Director for Louisiana Response Network, and Tim Conley, Mission Leader for Response Systems, Inc. They come on the show to discuss how local, state, and federal response teams managed keeping emergency services like ambulances and hospital ERs open.

• September 24, 2021Podcast

  Police Response in Disasters with Danny R. Smith

  Retired L.A. County Sheriff's Office Detective Danny R Smith joins Disaster Podcast co-hosts Sam Bradley and Jamie Davis on this episode. The three of them talk about police response to disaster situations and how they work alongside other first responders to ensure community safety and recovery.

• September 10, 2021Podcast

  Disaster Podcast Clinical Topic: Crush Syndrome

  In this episode of the Disaster Podcast, Dr. Joe Holley comes on the show to drop in with a clinical review of Crush Syndrome. Disaster Meteorologist Kyle Nelson stops by, too, and discusses recent severe weather events and the activity in the tropics.

• September 3, 2021Podcast

  Hurricane Ida’s Aftermath Across the Country

  After Hurricane Ida pummeled the gulf coast of Louisiana, it tracked north east across the United States until it passed over the mid-atlantic and northeastern states. It caused record rainfall in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York bringing life threatening flash-flooding to areas ill-prepared for the sudden inundation.

• August 29, 2021Podcast

  Podcast Response as Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall

  The eye of Hurricane Ida made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana earlier this afternoon CST (Sunday August 29, 2021). The Disaster Podcast Team pulls together our weather and emergency preparedness experts (Dan and Becky DePodwin respectively) to give their impressions of impacts on the ground as Ida continues moving northward towards the Mississippi/Louisiana border.