Much has already been written about the fires that have devastated Maui. Claire Rubin, the Disaster Diva, has collected a selection of them at her
Recovery Diva website, provided here for your perusing.
Will communities learn from their experience, or continue to think that those lessons don’t apply to them?
- It won’t happen here
- It will cost too much to fix the issue
- We would have to raise taxes to fix those issues
- My term in office is over in three years ... someone else can take this on
- Lightning won’t strike twice — will it?
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
