EPP Blog

If you’ve been reading this blog regularly, you know that we love the Incident Command System. OK, love is too strong a word. Let’s just say we really, really believe in it. The [...]

Months after it was “killed,” the BP gusher in the Gulf of Mexico just keeps spewing out valuable lessons for anyone in the emergency preparedness game. On January 6, the Obama [...]

Ever heard of the Cassandra Complex?  It comes up just about every time we conduct emergency restoration training.  There’s always at least one person who challenges some part of the drill [...]

Full Disclosure: Most of us (OK, all of us) here at Emergency Preparedness Partnerships are Phillies fans. Thought we had it made for the World Series this year. Proven, experienced lineup. Great [...]

Ever hear the term jabberwocky?  It might go something like this.  “I’ve been in this meeting close to an hour! It was supposed to last just 30 minutes. Yeah, right. Why am I even [...]

Many companies spend a lot of time comparing themselves to other companies. And for good reason. Why reinvent the wheel when you know somebody out there who designed a Ferrari, and you can borrow [...]

The qualifying heats in Beijing, China should have been no problem for the American 4×100 Olympic relay team in 2008. But on the third leg of the men’s race, the baton fell and they [...]

To: Mo Tesla, Mutual Assistance Coordinator Springfield Power and Sparks From: Homer Faraday, Scrod Basket Electric Thanks Mo, for the great job you did with all the accommodations you arranged [...]

For the past year we’ve focused on a lot of ‘strategic’ issues: decision making, incident management, debriefing, yadda, yadda, yadda… And yes, many of the strategic [...]

Recently, a lot of us have been reliving nightmares from El Ninos past.  Nasty weather forecasts. From the predictions, we could be in for some significant damage. Probably should engage in [...]