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Disaster Tough Podcast episodes

August 07, 2020 The Beirut Explosion - What 75 Years Since The Hiroshima Bomb Has Taught Emergency Managers
In this after action report (AAR) style episode, John Scardena walks emergency managers through hazard materials (HAZMAT) and chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological, and explosive (CBRNE) events. Using the Disaster Life-cycle and world events such as the Beirut Explosion, Hiroshima Bomb in World War 2, the Oklahoma City Bombing, Chernobyl Nuclear Incident, and Halifax Harbour Accident. We talk about the importance of conducting a hazard vulnerability assessment (HVA), following safety guidelines, considerations for first-responders, and reaching out to the emergency management community for pre-disaster mitigation. We go into the details from each of these catastrophic explosions and talk lessons learned.
34 min
July 31, 2020 Why Doberman? And why, Disaster Tough? Also, 10,000 downloads! Thank you!
Hey everyone, thank you for supporting the Disaster Tough Podcast! We are over the moon that so many have tuned in and are supporting our show. This week we decided to cap of the month by explaining who Doberman Emergency Management is, what we do, and how we help our community. We also explain the the name behind our podcast.
32 min
July 24, 2020 PART 2 - Regional Disaster Services Director at The Salvation Army Patrick McGinn
Continuing our discussion, Patrick McGinn shares lessons learned from his time at The Salvation Army, talks about how and why people need to volunteer, even in a pandemic, and what his organization is doing to keep people safe. We also talked about how our host, John Scardena saved his life several years ago (but not really, it’s a hilarious story). We laugh a lot and talk Emergency and Disaster Services. Join in the conversation on this week’s episode.
47 min
July 17, 2020 PART 1 - Regional Disaster Services Director at The Salvation Army Patrick McGinn
Expert emergency manager, Patrick McGinn serves as the Regional Disaster Services Director at The Salvation Army for all of Northern California and Nevada. He talks about his response experiences and shares lessons learned on emergency training exercises. Patrick also served the elite National Incident Management Assistance Team (N-IMAT West) for FEMA with our host, John Scardena.

Patrick is truly a well rounded emergency manager with both planning and operational experience. With his current role with The Salvation Army, he has developed axioms that push emergency managers to have a one-team, one-fight mentality. In this episode, we talked about how training pre-disaster impacted operations during Hurricane Harvey, a major event in both our host’s and Patrick’s career.
54 min
July 10, 2020 Dual Threat Response: Hurricanes & COVID-19 Pandemic Preparations with Cam Starrett
Emergency mangers must be training for a hurricane response in a pandemic environment. The Seven Community Lifelines will be impacted. Safety and Security, Food Water Shelter, Health and Medical, Energy, Communications, Transportation, and Hazardous Materials. We address general public situational awareness, and our role in deescalation.
1 hr 3 min
July 04, 2020 Military Veteran, Emergency Manager, Tactical Firearm Response Trainer & Owner of Gladiator Gunz Training Group William Jackson Jr.
Emergency management is a natural progression for many military vets. Will talks about his experiences with anti-terrorism CBRNE missions, the skills required to transfer into emergency management and his prestigious tactical firearm response training for law enforcement (police), military, and civilian members. If you are in the military and thinking about emergency and disaster services, this is the podcast for you. Will also addresses how the police need more training and how Gladiator Gunz Training Group can help through their scenario based courses.
1 hr 6 min
June 26, 2020 Interview with Public Safety and Professional Communications President at L3Harris Nino DiCosmo
L3Harris has almost 50,000 employees and does 18 billion dollars in revenue, annually. Nino DiCosmo joined the company as the President of Public Safety and Professional Communications at L3Harris nearly 4 years ago. He has ample experiences leading large teams and major contracts with the Department of Defense and First Responder agencies by providing technologies like our favorite radio app, BeOn PPT. We ask Nino about his expertise in leadership, responding to
the COVID-19 Pandemic, preparing for Hurricane Season and ask him questions about the contracting process to help emergency managers work better with vendors like L3Harris.
38 min
June 19, 2020 Response, PTSD, and Prevention with Human Trafficking Expert - Mary Kent
In this episode we talk with Mary Kent. A professor, public speaker, victim advocate responder, and intelligence asset to help identify human trafficking and provide disruption assistance. She talks about her experiences in the field and provides emergency managers the insights required to find, address, and help survivors of forced servitude and sexual exploitation.
56 min
June 13, 2020 Tactical Level Disaster Drones!
We talk about the inaugural use of sUAS drones from the federal disaster perspective. Our Host, while serving on the National Strike Team developed the first tactical level team in response and provides numerous applications for this asset. While talking about providing situational awareness, John talks about civil unrest, George Flyod, and reform. This is the official statement of Doberman Emergency Management Group llc and the Disaster Tough Podcast.
33 min
June 05, 2020 Hurricane Season and the Emergency Management Need to Knows
The episode highlights the major components of a hurricane, how to better communicate and understand the numerous complexities in with a hurricane response. Good luck this Season- it's likely going to be a busy one!
19 min

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The Disaster Tough Podcast is for emergency managers, by emergency managers. We share stories, lessons learned, and tips to help you make informed decisions. Our host, John Scardena is a former…