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The Lion speaks: How I came to write a war novel
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Writing about the status of mass care in the nation and getting ready for the next Big One. Monday, March 02, 2015. How I came to write a war novel. I wrote a novel about the war called The Lion of Babylon. And the book has just been published. I thought that I would take the time to say how I came to write this novel. Two months later came 9/11 and our world changed. Since I was a member of the Armed Forces of the United States at the time my life changed a little bit more than others. He said that he h...
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The Lion speaks: Florida is writing a State Multi-agency Reunification Plan
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Writing about the status of mass care in the nation and getting ready for the next Big One. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Florida is writing a State Multi-agency Reunification Plan. Reunification is one of the four activities of mass care, along with feeding, sheltering and distribution of emergency supplies. For this reason Emergency Support Function 6, Mass Care would take the lead in coordinating reunification during a disaster and in drafting a multiagency plan. One answer is ignorance, on my part as we...
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The Lion speaks: September 2014
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Writing about the status of mass care in the nation and getting ready for the next Big One. Sunday, September 07, 2014. Why we need the Red Cross. Last week I got an email from Jesse Eisinger. A Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from ProPublica. In the email he stated: ". I responded favorably and the next day we spoke on the phone for almost an hour. Brought in to the NYC EOC. Plus, as those of you who know me will attest, I LOVE to talk about mass care. To be precise, we didn't talk about mass care as mu...
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The Lion speaks: June 2014
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Writing about the status of mass care in the nation and getting ready for the next Big One. Wednesday, June 25, 2014. How many meals do we need? The first, critical task of an emergency manager at the beginning of an event is to determine the scale of the disaster. The scale of the disaster determines the resource requirements, which leads to an inventory of resources on hand and identification of what is short. A big first question in mass care is: How many meals do we need? So - how do we estimate the ...
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The Lion speaks: February 2015
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Writing about the status of mass care in the nation and getting ready for the next Big One. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Florida is writing a State Multi-agency Reunification Plan. Reunification is one of the four activities of mass care, along with feeding, sheltering and distribution of emergency supplies. For this reason Emergency Support Function 6, Mass Care would take the lead in coordinating reunification during a disaster and in drafting a multiagency plan. One answer is ignorance, on my part as we...
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The Lion speaks: On the movie "American Sniper"
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Writing about the status of mass care in the nation and getting ready for the next Big One. Monday, January 26, 2015. On the movie "American Sniper". I'm not looking for sympathy or understanding. I'm not crippled or impaired by these feelings but they exist. The bottom line was that I didn't go again so someone else had to. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Vienna, Virginia, United States. Nationally recognized expert in coordinating mass care at the state level and author of two books on the Iraq war...
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The Lion speaks: Moving Beyond "Safe & Well"
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Writing about the status of mass care in the nation and getting ready for the next Big One. Sunday, December 28, 2014. Moving Beyond "Safe and Well". It's time to move beyond Safe and Well. Unnecessary, at least, until the cell towers are down, the power is out, the smart phone batteries are dead and millions of people are seeking the status of loved ones at the same instant. Let me clarify by saying "millions of people" who are accustomed to instant communications 24/7. To my knowledge. few if any c...
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The Lion speaks: October 2014
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Writing about the status of mass care in the nation and getting ready for the next Big One. Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Delivering Mass Care Services to high-rise buildings. With the arrival this week of Halloween, the second anniversary of Super Storm Sandy carries it's own horror show legacy. A YouTube video. According to the New York Times,. The reply of responsible officials to the plight of the individuals in these apartments was: "The should have followed the evacuation order." Granted, an elder...
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The Lion speaks: July 2014
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Writing about the status of mass care in the nation and getting ready for the next Big One. Saturday, July 26, 2014. For those facing their first, biggest and last disaster. In almost all the disasters that I have worked my overriding concern has been: how much mass care resources do I need? And the corollary question: do we have enough? I say almost because during the earliest disasters I didn't have enough experience to even know that this was something that I should be worried about. Ten years ago nex...
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The Lion speaks: The National Mass Care Exercise, June 7-11, 2015, Austin, TX
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Writing about the status of mass care in the nation and getting ready for the next Big One. Sunday, April 19, 2015. The National Mass Care Exercise, June 7-11, 2015, Austin, TX. The site selected at Camp Mabry National Guard base for the Shelter and Feeding Task Forces. Texas Division of Emergency Management &Texas National Guard show. State, VOAD and FEMA visitors the Camp Mabry site. Two major issues that were not resolved in the previous exercises, and will be a particular focus of the 2015 exercise, ...
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