Category Archives: Emergency Preparedness

Evacuate … now what?

“Fire! Fire! Evacuate now! Fire! Fire!”, commands the fire alarm.

We do what we’re told and leave the building. But then what do we do? A good plan doesn’t stop at the exit, it needs to also plan for recovery. How do we know it’s safe to go back inside? What if we can’t go back inside, where do we go? What if this is a hazardous material incident or terrorist attack? What about an incident in the middle of a storm? Continue reading Evacuate … now what?

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Fire Drills

Recently I completed a disaster recovery plan for a friend. I updated the steps in their building evacuation workbook, developed an emergency call list and found they had a great start on their computer backups process but we found a large gap in the recovery portion of their plan.

They had a wonderful automated backup policy, each computer running a backup planA fire extinguisher. across their network to a file server that then burns the whole lot to a tape at the end of each week. They even tested their plan, recovering a computer from the daily network backup and from the weekly tape – I was delighted.

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Jackson ARES Simulated Emergency Test

Volunteers standing in a circle waiting for instructions.    This project was designed to help train and exercise a group of radio volunteers. The project took over two-hundred hours for me to assemble and execute. I wrote and taught two Continue reading Jackson ARES Simulated Emergency Test

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