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Is Your Community Prepared for the Wildfire Season?

CCEM Strategies

Here are four (4) steps your community can take: Review and enhance emergency plans Develop readiness with training and practice Establish and strengthen partnerships Remain vigilant by monitoring hazards and risks Review and Enhance Your Emergency Plans Your community already has emergency plans.

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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources    

MHA Consulting

The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. This is more true than ever in the age of internet news and social media. Every organization’s crisis management plan must include a crisis communications plan and strategy.

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Are You Protecting Your Reputation With A Plan?

Bernstein Crisis Management

Allow me to expand a bit… While most organizations we speak with have some level of emergency planning – basic natural disaster response plans, for example – far fewer are prepared to engage in the communications and operational maneuvering that accompanies a serious threat to reputation.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

What was previously forbidden by custom, practice, sanction and retribution becomes possible, even desirable, as the emerging group of looters frees itself from the shackles of normal constraint. Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. Early views of the Internet and disasters (e.g. Bird et al.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

Consider, for example, the role of the Internet and social media. It remains to be seen whether the usual mistakes are repeated by the international disaster aid community after the August 2021 earthquake. The intervening years have produced conflicting signals.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

What’s changed is that the internet has made everything easier to find, the net has facilitated the development of blogs like this one, BCM professionals have become highly collegial about sharing information, and the field as a whole has matured in terms of professional gatherings, associations, standards, and practice.

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