by Susanne | Dec 15, 2023 | 2023 Holiday Puzzles, Brain Teasers, Disaster Management, Evacuation, Hazards, News, Training, Wildfire
Imagine that you have to evacuate quickly, how long will it take you to leave? Consider: How long to get everyone out — everyone in the car and gone!? How long to gather essentials — medications, personal documents, cash, …? How long to pack basic needs —...
by Susanne | Dec 6, 2022 | 2022 Twelve Days of Thanks and Giving, Disaster Management, Evacuation, Hazards, Leaders, News, Preparedness, Research, Wildfire
On the third day of Thanks and Giving, we give to you … three stories from people who had to flee their homes because of wildfire. Cindy S. (not her real name) was at the grocery store when she received word that the Glass Fire had grown explosively and that...
by Zach Pipkin | Dec 20, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Disaster Management, Evacuation, Hazards, Preparedness, Wildfire
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” While the history of this phrase is unknown, it still holds true. Now, we’re not here to talk about planting trees (although that also helps with wildfire recovery), but rather being...
by Susanne | Dec 14, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Disaster Management, Evacuation, Hazards, Wildfire
Mary has a little lamb. In fact, she has twenty-seven of them. One day, a wildfire breaks out. Mary, her farm, and all her little lambs are in the evacuation zone. Mary’s lambs and all their moms won’t fit into her pickup truck, so she doesn’t want to go. Can...
by Garett Dworman | Dec 12, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Disaster Management, Evacuation, Hazards, Preparedness, Recovery, Wildfire
Disaster management, one aspect of emergency management, provides a framework for understanding disasters and how we handle them. There is some debate about the specifics, but the model we have found most useful defines 5 steps: Prevention – We can take...
by Garett Dworman | Dec 9, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Disaster Management, Evacuation, Hazards, Wildfire
“With the fires, my job was to leave.” So says Barbara, who had to evacuate in the face of the Santa Cruz fires. Outside of the very real trauma of potentially losing her home, she found that evacuation was “smooth and easy.” No traffic. No rushing. And no anxiety of...
