Disaster Podcast

By Jamie Davis, Sam Bradley, Joe Holley, Kyle Nelson

Medicine

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Disaster Podcast episodes:

04.05.2024
A Look Behind the Long Range Hurricane Season Forecasts
we jump into an in depth look at what goes into a long range hurricane forecast. With such a distant outlook, how do forecasters make their decisions about the whole season this far ahead of time. Our meteorologist, Dan DePodwin,...
03.29.2024
Hurricane Forecast and Bridge Collapse
On the Disaster Podcast this week, co-hosts Sam Bradley and Jamie Davis are joined by disaster emergency management expert Becky DePodwin to look at the upcoming Hurricane Season Forecast. Accuweather released their predictions for the 2024 hurricane season, set to...
03.22.2024
Tornados, Training, and Incident Command Structure
We welcome meteorologist and disaster incident command system expert Kyle Nelson on the show. He checks in from Florida where he's traveling to a training event to help him in his roles with his county incident command system, especially when...
03.01.2024
Fallout in EMS From Elijah McClain Homicide Trial
Dr. Joe Holley examines some of the key take aways from the verdict against two EMS providers in the Elijah McClain homicide trial. The team goes over lessons that can be learned from this case.
02.23.2024
NHERI and Its Impact On Geohazard Mitigation with Dan Zehner
This week features a rare follow-up episode where we looked back at last week's episode on Geohazard Mitigation with Colby Barrett from GeoStabilization International. This week we brought back Dan Zehner from The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI).
02.09.2024
Geohazard Mitigation with Colby Barrett
Colby Barrett is our guest this week on the Disaster Podcast. He is the son of the one of the founders of GeoStabilization International and currently is the vice chair of the Board of Directors for the company. He's a...
01.26.2024
Winter Weather Terms, Updates, and Can Openers
This week on the Disaster Podcast it's time to discuss recent wintery weather trends. That also means it's time to stump our meteorologist, Dan DePodwin. The wintery weather terms we try out on him include freezing fog, polar vortex, graupel,...
01.19.2024
Dr. Joe Holley on Topics from NAEMSP Annual Meeting 2024
This week Dr. Joe Holley drops in after attending the NAEMSP (National Association of EMS Physicians) annual meeting in Austin, Texas. The leadership of our EMS docs discussed a multitude of important topics for the prehospital care environment. Here is...
01.12.2024
Bullets and Bandaids Connects Artists and Veterans
We invite Robert LeHeup on the Disaster Podcast this week to talk about his nonprofit initiative for veterans called Bullets and Bandaids. Bullets and Bandaids uses art therapy to assist veterans deal with trauma from their experiences in the military.
01.05.2024
2024 Winter Weather Outlook and Preparedness
We kick off the 11th year of the Disaster Podcast with a look at the winter weather patterns for the coming year of 2024. Meteorologist, Dan DePodwin, joins us to share his expertise. We then shift gears a little to...
12.22.2023
Wrapping Up 10 Years On The Disaster Podcast
The whole team of regulars at the Disaster Podcast wrapped up year number ten with the podcast. We take a look back at a decade of episodes with our Meteorologists Kyle Nelson and Dan DePodwin, Emergency Management expert Becky DePodwin,...
12.15.2023
Disaster Podcast 2023 Year In Review
The podcast team got together with our picks from the last year's episodes as we wrap up the podcast's year. There was a general consensus on the best episode. The whole group chose the Mark Dickey Cave Rescue Episode as...
11.17.2023
Crush Injury with Dr. Joe Holley Clinical Episode
Dr. Joe Holley joins us for a clinical episode on Crush Syndrome and injury. The issue represents a broad spectrum of situations affecting the body. The disease process can be from becoming trapped in a collapsed structure or something as...
11.03.2023
TrekMedics and Beacon Dispatch Software Update with Jason Friesen
Jason Friesen from TrekMedics International joins us again on the Disaster Podcast. He is the founder and executive director of the non-profit organization. He recently sent out an update to those who support the organization about their Beacon software for...
10.27.2023
Mark Dickey Rescued from Turkish Cave After Days Underground
Mark Dickey, an experienced caver and cave rescue expert and trainer, became a patient during a recent cave expedition in Turkey. The Morca Cave is one of the deepest in Europe, going over a thousand meters below the surface. While...
09.15.2023
Maui Fires Aftermath with Dan Zehner from NHERI
In the aftermath of the Maui wildfire disaster that struck the state of Hawaii, Dan Zehner from NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) comes on the show. Dan shares with us the post-disaster lessons learned by looking at the effect...
08.30.2023
Hurricane Idalia Inbound to the Big Bend of Florida
Meteorologist and disaster emergency management expert, Becky DePodwin joined us for a special early episode this week. We wanted to get out with a discussion on preparations for the inbound Hurricane Idalia to hit the west coast of Florida. Becky...
08.20.2023
Emergency Assistance Foundation on the Disaster Podcast
Douglas Stockham from the Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) joined us this week on the Disaster Podcast. EAF is a U.S.-based, public non-profit administering employer-sponsored disaster and hardship relief funds worldwide.
08.11.2023
Severe Mid-Atlantic Weather and Hawaii Wildfires
A line of storms with high-winds and severe weather warnings struck sections of the mid-Atlantic states earlier this week. One of the places struck with some remarkable damage was the home town of host Jamie Davis. Straight line winds of...
08.05.2023
Clinical Presentation of Unusual Diseases in U.S. with Dr. Joe
Dr. Joe Holley joins us on the show this week to share some clinical information with the podcast. He starts off with an update on recent Paragon Medical Group training programs around the country. Then we shift gears into some...
07.14.2023
Kelly Grayson, a Paramedic’s Paramedic and Author
Kelly Grayson is a paramedic's paramedic. He's passionate, educated, caring, and so much more. He's also a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction. Many remember the release of his first memoir of his paramedic career, En Route: A Paramedic's Stories...
06.30.2023
New Clinical Research on Heads-up CPR in Cardiac Arrest
In this episode of the Disaster Podcast, we talk about advances in heads-up CPR. Dr. Joe Holley joins us for a clinical episode this week and we engage in a discussion about the latest in research around cardiac arrest management.
06.23.2023
Severe Weather Health Risks and Response
Kyle Nelson joined the team again this week to talk about weather hazards and health risks associated with them. The U.S. has been struck by a wave of severe weather over the last few weeks including severe storms, tornadoes, and...
06.16.2023
Managing Disaster In Ukrainian War Zone
In this episode, we invited Dan Zehner from NHERI back on the show to talk about the recent Dam breach in Ukraine. The resulting flooding has necessitated widespread rescue attempts, many of which took place in an active war zone....
06.02.2023
A Decade of FEMA Deployments with Dr. Joe Holley
Dr. Joe Holley has been deploying with FEMA as a member of a Federal USAR team from Tennessee for a long time. He recently counted up forty-three (43) USAR and other deployments to disasters in the United States and abroad....
05.26.2023
A Look Back at Nearly Ten Years on the Disaster Podcast
We take a look back at nearly ten years here on the Disaster Podcast on this week's show. We are joined by Becky and Dan DePodwin who share their favorite episodes. Co-hosts Jamie Davis and Sam Bradley share some of...
04.28.2023
Travel Safety and Preparedness with The Broken Nomad Kevin Reiter
Kevin Reiter, also known as the Broken Nomad (thebrokennomad.com), rejoins us this week to talk about his journey as a digital nomad on the road. We discuss his new van set up for traveling and working. We also chat about...
04.15.2023
Severe Weather Patterns and Public Risk Awareness
We invited our favorite meteorologist couple back to the show to talk about severe weather and the emergency management of disasters associated with it. Becky and Dan DePodwin join us and talk about the recent spate of tornadoes and severe...
04.01.2023
Earthquake and Tsunami Clinical Topics with Dr. Joe Holley
This episode starts off with a Covid clinical update and a look at the fading of emergency measures across the country. As resources and free services are rolled back, some of the most at-risk individuals for ongoing COVID exposure no...
03.24.2023
The Train Disaster That Changed America with Dr. Yasmine S. Ali
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Yasmine S. Ali, an award-winning medical writer and native of Waverly, Tennessee. That town is the setting of her nonfiction book, WALK THROUGH FIRE: The Train Disaster That Changed America.
03.03.2023
Preparedness by Design for Any Disaster with Patrick Hardy
Emergency Manager, Patrick Hardy, comes on the show tonight to talk about his new book about preparedness. Patrick is recognized as the nation’s top expert in disaster preparedness across multiple industries, is an active philanthropist for disaster preparedness programs, and...
02.25.2023
The Natural Disasters Expo with Director Luke Tripconey
What the disaster response community needs is a place to gather and share best practices, look at new technologies and techniques, and network with other responders and emergency managers. Enter the Natural Disasters Expo (naturaldisastersshow.com).
02.17.2023
Early NHERI Response to Turkey and Syria Earthquake
Dan Zehner from NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) joins us to talk about the initial structural engineering look at the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. As soon as the earthquake struck and the extent of the structural failures...
02.11.2023
Technology Assisted Medical Disaster Response
When disasters strike, technology can help disaster teams leverage expertise at a distance to manage survivors and patients. On today's podcast we have Dr. Erika Havelka, with IDMC and Dr. Jarone Lee with Health Tech Without Borders.
01.27.2023
Building a Disaster Team with Greg Scott
Our guest this week is Greg Scott. He's a paramedic and registered nurse with a background in emergency management and preparedness. Greg’s expertise is in building teams of volunteers for disaster response. First teams must decide what type of teams,...
01.06.2023
Avalanche Risks and Rescue on the Disaster Podcast
With steady streams of snowfall coming into the rocky mountains, that also means more risk for avalanche in the back country recreation areas for skiers and other participants of winter sports activities. We have meteorologist and ski patrol member Kyle...
12.29.2022
From Responder to Patient with Codi Foxworthy
When Codi Foxworthy became an EMT and Firefighter, she never thought she would someday rely on rescuers to save her life. This week on the Disaster Podcast we talk with Codi about her accident and the spine injury that took...
12.22.2022
Holiday 2023 Storm Hits United States
We were able to gather our team meteorologists back for this special pre-holiday epsiode of the Disaster Podcast. Meteorologists Kyle Nelson, Dan DePodwin, and Becky DePodwin rejoin the show to talk about the epic storm hitting parts of the country...
12.15.2022
Collecting Thermal Undergarments for Ukrainian Doctors and Nurses
We chatted with Dr. Riley Jones from Med Global (MedGlobal.org) who has been assisting with getting needed medical supplies and assistance to Doctors and Nurses in Ukrainian hospitals. He recently identified a great need for warm undergarments for health professionals...
12.10.2022
D911 App Connects People with Services They Need
In this episode we talk with Dan Francis from D911.org. This is an organization that created a mobile app to connect individuals on the ground after a disaster with the […]
12.01.2022
Nuclear Radiological Injury Patient Management
Dr. Joe Holley joins us for a clinical episode this week. We will look at the triage, management, and protection needed for patients in nuclear emergencies. Dr. Joe references training resources from FEMA and the CDC for clinicians.
11.24.2022
A Look A DMAT Plus a Ukraine Training Update
In this episode we take a look at the DMAT deployment following Hurricane Ian in Florida. Gary Christmann from IDMC comes on the show to talk about Disaster Medical Aid Team (DMAT) and how it deploys. Then he shifts gears...
11.12.2022
Dr. Joe Holley Hurricane Ian Deployment
Dr. Joe Holley joins us on the show tonight following his recent travels helping with the Hurricane Ian response and also a quick visit to EMS World Expo. He shares his experiences with the search and rescue efforts following the...
10.17.2022
Ukraine Medical Update with Dr. Kasia Hampton
Today on the show we have EMS physician Dr. Kasia Hampton back after her medical tour in Ukraine to assist doctors and facilities there. Dr. Hampton studied medical school in Belgium before moving to the U.S. for her medical training...
10.07.2022
StEER Network Gathers Storm Data After Hurricane Ian
Dan Zehner from NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) comes back on the show to bring us the preliminary StEER data collected during and after Hurricane Ian. StEER (Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance) is a crowd-sourced network of public and private...
09.28.2022
Hurricane Ian Pre-Landfall in Florida
With Hurricane Ian setting up to have a major impact on the central Gulf Coast of Florida, the Disaster Podcast team got together to talk about potential impacts and preparedness efforts. We were lucky to get disaster and emergency management...
09.09.2022
Managing Mental Health During Disaster Response
In this episode of the Disaster Podcast we look at managing mental health patients in the disaster situation. Emergency situations by their very nature bring on additional stress that can overwhelm a person without mental health issues. When a person...
09.02.2022
Solar Flares and Space Weather Disasters
In this episode, we look at the potential risks of solar flares or coronal ejections on electrical infrastructure. Our disaster meteorologists Dan and Becky DePodwin join us to talk about space weather prediction and some of the unique challenges posed...
08.28.2022
Kentucky Flooding Response AAR with Dr. Joe Holley
Dr. Joe Holley was deployed with Tennessee Task Force One USAR team as part of the Federal FEMA response teams helping state and local resources in search and rescue efforts in Kentucky. Now Dr. Joe comes on the show to...
08.09.2022
Report From The Field with Dr. Joe Holley on Kentucky Deployment
Dr. Joe Holley has been deployed with Tennessee Task Force One USAR team as part of the Federal FEMA response teams helping state and local resources in search and rescue efforts in Kentucky for over a week and a half....

What's Disaster Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Disaster Podcast episodes:

A Look Behind the Long Range Hurricane Season Forecasts

Hurricane Forecast and Bridge Collapse

Tornados, Training, and Incident Command Structure

Fallout in EMS From Elijah McClain Homicide Trial

NHERI and Its Impact On Geohazard Mitigation with Dan Zehner

Geohazard Mitigation with Colby Barrett

Winter Weather Terms, Updates, and Can Openers

Dr. Joe Holley on Topics from NAEMSP Annual Meeting 2024

Bullets and Bandaids Connects Artists and Veterans

2024 Winter Weather Outlook and Preparedness

Wrapping Up 10 Years On The Disaster Podcast

Disaster Podcast 2023 Year In Review

Crush Injury with Dr. Joe Holley Clinical Episode

TrekMedics and Beacon Dispatch Software Update with Jason Friesen

Mark Dickey Rescued from Turkish Cave After Days Underground

Maui Fires Aftermath with Dan Zehner from NHERI

Hurricane Idalia Inbound to the Big Bend of Florida

Emergency Assistance Foundation on the Disaster Podcast

Severe Mid-Atlantic Weather and Hawaii Wildfires

Clinical Presentation of Unusual Diseases in U.S. with Dr. Joe

Kelly Grayson, a Paramedic’s Paramedic and Author

New Clinical Research on Heads-up CPR in Cardiac Arrest

Severe Weather Health Risks and Response

Managing Disaster In Ukrainian War Zone

A Decade of FEMA Deployments with Dr. Joe Holley

A Look Back at Nearly Ten Years on the Disaster Podcast

Travel Safety and Preparedness with The Broken Nomad Kevin Reiter

Severe Weather Patterns and Public Risk Awareness

Earthquake and Tsunami Clinical Topics with Dr. Joe Holley

The Train Disaster That Changed America with Dr. Yasmine S. Ali

Preparedness by Design for Any Disaster with Patrick Hardy

The Natural Disasters Expo with Director Luke Tripconey

Early NHERI Response to Turkey and Syria Earthquake

Technology Assisted Medical Disaster Response

Building a Disaster Team with Greg Scott

Avalanche Risks and Rescue on the Disaster Podcast

From Responder to Patient with Codi Foxworthy

Holiday 2023 Storm Hits United States

Collecting Thermal Undergarments for Ukrainian Doctors and Nurses

D911 App Connects People with Services They Need

Nuclear Radiological Injury Patient Management

A Look A DMAT Plus a Ukraine Training Update

Dr. Joe Holley Hurricane Ian Deployment

Ukraine Medical Update with Dr. Kasia Hampton

StEER Network Gathers Storm Data After Hurricane Ian

Hurricane Ian Pre-Landfall in Florida

Managing Mental Health During Disaster Response

Solar Flares and Space Weather Disasters

Kentucky Flooding Response AAR with Dr. Joe Holley

Report From The Field with Dr. Joe Holley on Kentucky Deployment