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• July 11, 2019Podcast

  Disaster Response and Training Impacts from Lessons Learned Part 1

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  July 4, 2019Podcast

  Trek Medics Improve Emergency Response in Emerging Nations and Disasters (Part 2 of 2)

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  June 29, 2019Podcast

  Trek Medics Improve Emergency Response in Emerging Nations and Disasters (Part 1 of 2)

  http://media.blubrry.com/disaster/podcast-archives.s3.amazonaws.com/disaster/DisasterPodcast_20190627_Trek_Medics_Update1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreThis week on the show we bring you part one of the two-part episode with Jason Friesen from […]

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  June 14, 2019Podcast

  Heat Injury and Stress Effect on Disaster and Wilderness Rescuers

  A look at heat and hot weather health effects on responders and disaster rescuers. We have Wilderness PA, a.k.a. James Corbin on the show today to talk about preparing for hot weather rescue operations as summer approaches here in the northern hemisphere.

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  June 6, 2019Podcast

  USAR Dog Wellness with Dr. Lori Gordon

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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.