Articles Tagged with ''Emergency Preparedness''

When the Cold Springs Fire tore through 528 acres of Boulder County, Colo., Director of Emergency Management Mike Chard took to social media.

If you have an emergency, you might wait a while in Denver (average police response time of just under 13 minutes), while a serious emergency call in Chicago will garner a response within 3.5 minutes.

Enterprise decision makers know to “expect the unexpected” when it comes to business continuity planning. But the increasingly complex threat environment is challenging organizations as never before to prepare for an expanding range of incidents.

It may happen when you are least able to prevent it – when your executive or his family are alone and most vulnerable.

“I take a lot of lessons from the community policing model, which is policing through customer service,” says Ryan King, Manager of Safety, Security and Emergency Management for Central Florida Health (CFH).

When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, Katherine Collins knew exactly what she and the team were going to do.

The Via Series of communication devices from Talkaphone is designed for modern entryways and facilities.

On a typical day in January 2018 residents of Hawaii all were informed, virtually simultaneously, that the world was coming to an end.