Learn how state and local emergency managers can prepare for and execute effective public alerts without chaos or confusion.

If collaboration is the backbone of effective emergency management, communication is the connective tissue that holds it all together. Every decision, from evacuation orders to resource allocation, ...

Implement layered notification technologies where each system’s strengths compensate for others’ limitations. This redundancy ensures message delivery when individual systems fail or experience ...

Emergency management officials in Florida are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to better protect residents from the threat of hurricanes and other natural disasters. The new project ...

As emergency operations evolve, emergency operations centers (EOCs) are adopting cutting-edge technologies increasingly more to improve response times, resource allocation and decision-making during ...

Pratt’s Store in Bridport, seen on Friday, July 26, is a hub of information for residents in times of crisis like the recent floods. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger As floodwaters swept through ...

Unfortunately, this book can't be printed from the OpenBook. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a PDF. Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this ...

Fort Worth’s newly created Emergency Management & Communications Department is expected to operate on a $20.7 million budget, giving the city’s 911 call-taking team its own department and streamlining ...

First responders did their jobs. Now city leadership must do more to prepare for the next crisis.

HAPPENS WITH THAT. IN THE MEANTIME, PREPARING STUDENTS TO BECOME LEADERS IN TIMES OF DISASTER. ONE OF OUR REGION’S UNIVERSITIES IS NOW COVERING AN ADVANCED DEGREE THAT’S EQUIPPING THE NEXT GENERATION ...