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• May 31, 2019Podcast

  Physical Aptitude Testing for Disaster Responders with Dave Bremson

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• May 24, 2019Podcast

  Volunteers in Disaster Response and Recovery Efforts

  We tackle the importance of volunteers in disaster response and recovery on this week's episode of the Disaster Podcast. In some communities, volunteers from the backbone of the first responder force. How does this dynamic affect response to disasters and what does it mean for overall community resilience?

• May 9, 2019Podcast

  Emergency Dispatchers, The Forgotten First Responders

  On this week's episode, we take a look into the lives of emergency dispatchers. Our disaster weather expert and emergency dispatcher, Kyle Nelson, is the featured guest this week. Kyle talks about the challenges of being a dispatcher and urges all first responders to keep their dispatch center staff in mind when putting together debriefings and after-action discussions for all events, large or small. It's important to remember these forgotten members of the emergency chain of survival and include them whenever we talk about our first responder community.

• May 2, 2019Uncategorized

  Pet Preparedness and Evacuation for Owners and Responders

  Protecting our pets is important to all of us. So why do we not include them in our preparedness planning for our families? In this episode of the Disaster Podcast we look at pet preparedness in the face of disasters, what the law says at the federal level about pets and evacuations, and how responders can better prepare for pet evacuation alongside their owners.

• April 25, 2019Podcast

  Cumulative Stress in Responders with Dan McGuire

  After a friend of the show checked in to report on some personal cumulative stress issues as a paramedic, we decided to tackle this issue head on with the expert himself. We brought back Dan McGuire from CISM Perspectives to talk about updates to the ways work-related stress for first responders is handled. The biggest change Dan noted was a focus on building resiliency into initial first responder education and ongoing training before the critical incident occurs.

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  April 11, 2019Podcast

  Paragon in Bangkok Talking CPR and Resuscitation

  Teaching about CPR and ventilation effectiveness in resuscitation with Paragon Medical Education Group. Dr. Joe Holley and paramedic Jim Logan traveled to Bangkok, Thailand recently to teach medical professionals from all over southeastern Asia and the Pacific Rim about the latest research they've been conducting on ventilation and CPR. Their educational sessions were well-received by the attendees at the conference and many expect to return and make changes to resuscitation practices in their systems.

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  April 4, 2019Podcast

  Bomb-Cyclone and Severe Weather Impacts Winter 2019

  http://media.blubrry.com/disaster/podcast-archives.s3.amazonaws.com/disaster/DisasterPodcast_20190404_Bomb_Cyclone.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreA few weeks ago a weather event called a Bomb-Cyclone struck the US midwest from Colorado through the […]

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  March 28, 2019Podcast

  Safety and Situational Awareness Practices Down Under

  Another look at "Safety Third" following a Disaster Podcast Facebook group discussion on the subject. In this case, we check in with podcast community member Lee Caulfield-Marsh, A paramedic based in Queensland Australia. He posed several questions to our docs on the Facebook group and prompted us to put together this episode.

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  March 21, 2019Podcast

  Storm Resilient Structures with Dan Zehner of NHERI

  After the tornados were so devastating to structures in Alabama in early March, the hosts of the Disaster Podcast decided to reach out to Dan Zehner at the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI). Dan is the host of the DesignSafe Radio podcast. Dan shares some of the resources and techniques to examine and test structural components in the face of extreme weather events. Various facilities associated with NHERI around the U.S. take part in the structural testing used to improve building practices and codes to create resilient communities.

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  March 14, 2019Podcast

  Tornado Aftermath and Assessment with Kyle Nelson

  Tornados ripped through parts of the southeastern United States last week. We decided to dedicate an episode with our disaster weather expert, Kyle Nelson to talk about the extreme weather event. Kyle discusses the classification of tornados, how the National Weather Service comes in after an event like this and evaluates damage to assign an Enhanced Fujita Scale rating to the individual twisters.