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By eileen
In Featured Highlights, Industry Highlights
Posted March 28, 2018

Could a Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Happen in America?

It is hard to believe that it’s been 7 years since Tokyo Electric Power experienced the worst nuclear incident in its history – an earthquake and subsequent tsunami that essentially destroyed the [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted March 26, 2018

The Evolving Utility Workforce

It’s no secret that the utility workforce is currently in a state of flux.  Baby Boomers are retiring in droves, leaving the remaining employee base with a knowledge gap.  An estimated 50% of [...]

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By eileen
In Featured Highlights, Industry Highlights
Posted March 21, 2018

Top 2018 Electric Utility Challenges

Now that 2017 is waaaaay back in the rear-view mirror, and the 1Q of 2018 is well underway, I thought it would be fun to find out what industry experts consider to be some of the top electric [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted March 16, 2018

Attack of the Super Volcanos

As an emergency preparedness professional, it’s always something.  Hurricanes, earthquake activity, forest fires, terrorism, cybersecurity, derechos, microbursts, you name it.  And now we have [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted March 14, 2018

Importance of Dispatcher Training for Emergency Preparedness

The recent California forest fires illustrate the importance of proper dispatcher training.  On October 8, 2017, a handful of fires exploded onto the scene in Sonoma County.  Panicked residents [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted March 12, 2018

FEMA USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) Shortcomings

The FEMA Urban Search and Rescue or USAR teams are made up of individuals that specialize in search and rescue, disaster recovery and emergency triage and medicine.  They are typically deployed [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted March 9, 2018

California Mudslides Highlight the Need for New Emergency Protocols

A nasty storm in January 2018 caused massive mudslides in Montecito, CA, a community of about 9,000 residents within Santa Barbara County.  At least 20 residents were killed.  The totality of the [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted March 7, 2018

River Floods: The Next Big Threat

I’ve written about many kinds of natural and manmade disasters for this blog, including system-hacking, terrorism, forest fires, earthquakes, and more. Now there’s a new and emerging [...]

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By eileen
In Featured Highlights, Industry Highlights
Posted March 5, 2018

Korean Cellphone Alerts Annoy Olympic Visitors

Since there’s been so much talk about emergency cellphone alerts lately, this NY Times article is interesting.  In South Korea, notifications from local and regional governments are [...]

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By eileen
In Industry Highlights
Posted February 28, 2018

Simplified Outage Planning

At first blush, the notion of outage planning seems counterintuitive.  This is because unplanned outages get all the press.  Case in point – most of what I write about involves unplanned outage [...]

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