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You can’t see. You can’t Feel. Your pulse is 180+. You think you or someone else might die. This is the baseline. This is the standard that we design gear for, because this is reality. If your equipment or techniques...
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I don’t particularly love getting soaked at fires. I am well aware it is part of the job. After all, our principal extinguishing agent is water. But if I can avoid it, I do. On attic, cockloft, or other fires...
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Destruction. Beauty. Loss. Love. Words and emotions rarely put together in the same sentence. At disasters large and small though, they are often all present in an awkward contrast that can be hard to rationalize. But I’ve come to believe...
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The use of helicopters in the wake of Helene’s catastrophic impact to Appalachia is unprecedented in the history of modern day disaster response within the US. Since the wind died down, they have been used for rescue, reconnaissance, supply, transport,...
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We’ve all seen a lot of photos of destruction this week. Those photos are important, but disasters are not structural, they are human. What makes it a disaster are the human elements associated with such damage: the stories, memories, lives,...
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