In the 1970's, California (U.S.) resources were severely taxed by major wildfire outbreaks. These incidents required the cooperation of multiple agencies that did not usually work together. Many ...

Help! An IT system has gone down and it's affecting the business. What happened, and what needs to be done to get everything back on steady footing? This sort of predicament occurs all too often in ...

When COVID-19 swept into New York City in early 2020, it did not just test hospital capacity; it stress-tested the very systems designed to manage crisis. At the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), the ...

Small and medium-sized organizations without a disaster recovery plan are 40% more likely to close their doors permanently after a disaster. Research from FEMA highlights this alarming reality, ...

The FEMA Emergency Management Institute’s (EMI) Curriculum Management Branch offers the Independent Study Program (ISP). This is a distance learning program which offers training, free of charge, to ...

President George W. Bush visits a base camp Oct. 25, 2007, for first responders battling the Southern California wildfires. (White House photo by Eric Draper) Following the 2001 9/11 terrorist attacks ...

Howitt, Arnold M., Haruo Hayashi, Hiromi Akiyama, David W. Giles, and Dutch Leonard. "An Incident Management System for Japan?" Crisis Response Journal 9, no. 1 (2013 ...