Complete EM Podcast

Pete Turner was trained to be an army counterintelligence agent. He estimates he’s been on 1000 combat patrols - not to fight but to listen. His job was to develop relationships and cooperation in some of the most dangerous and difficult environments on the planet. Pete talks about what it’s like and what it takes to advance a mission within a community -- door-to-door, town-to-town, strategically, tactically and successfully.

Building an emergency operations center, managing an EOC team, developing plans, conducting training and exercising involve plenty of work, but there’s much more to administering a county disaster program. Laura is a recently-retired emergency manager who candidly shared her view looking back on her 30-year career in the profession as well as the emotional and physiological impacts of the job.

Emergency managers have enough to do on a day-to-day basis, but when a major emergency or disaster happens, the job gets much more complex. Disaster Cost Recovery is a phrase most often used to describe efforts by local, state and certain non-profit organizations to obtain post-disaster grants to reimburse their response costs and repair damage. Jerry has worked as an advocate for sub-recipients (organizations that seek-out these grants) for almost 30 years.  He sat down with us and discussed what effective disaster cost recovery is all about.

Join George Whitney each week as he speaks with people making a difference in emergency management. They talk about what works, what doesn't, how to work efficiently, and how to get it done with maximum effect.

Special thanks to stefsax / CC BY 2.5 for our intro and outro music.