15 years ago. Things were a bit different.
626MB departing with Lead Pilot Joe Mag
Hey Kelly, did you know, I’m still being called “Kaito”?
Kelly and Kaito
While some of our uniforms or missions or jobs have changed, we will never forget.
Glad to have you around Joe P.
Miss you Bill and Kel.
Some fugly weather inbound to NorthEast Ohio today peeps.
Just remember: When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors! Bolt Inside!
#Rawr
Dear general public: Stop being mean to the National Weather Service, State/Local government public safety, and news reporters.
When “breaking news” occurs pertaining to safety, please adhere to the warnings put forth by the official sources.
Again, stop being mean!
Most reporters are generally nice and they want to report the facts.
For your protection, heed all safety warnings from official sources.
Even in light traffic, do you know what to do?
PULL RIGHT FOR LIGHTS!
That’s right – go right!
Be safe and help out your local public safety providers as they head out to do good stuff.
EST: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fullscreen.html?n=417
UTC: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fullscreen.html?n=1440
Chicago: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fullscreen.html?n=64
Denver: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fullscreen.html?n=75
California: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fullscreen.html?n=217
Hawaii: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fullscreen.html?n=103
For my Emergency Management Pros – have you done your continuity planning yet?
What? You don’t have a backup Emergency Operations Center?!?
Let me help you for free: Sports-type restaurants can easily double as an Emergency Operations Center.
Oh schnikies – he’s right!
Remember on September 11th, FDNY had to move their EOC multiple times because of increased hazards, inaccessibility, and debris?
More planning? Any of the FEMA credentialed Master Continuity Practitioners can help you out…like me.
Likely this could be a good alternate to any Emergency Operations Center right? Large parking lot, ability to provide food, bathrooms, etc….all the stuff we need.
So yes, if you are short on funding, consider identifying a few neighborhood sports restaurants as backup emergency operations centers in your AOR and mutual aid districts/regions.
Hello Wednesday! Getting a chance to teach my favorite advanced class – PER-344: Social Media Tools and Techniques at the State of New Mexico Department of Public Health.
Whohoo!
The engaging in-class activity in the afternoon is a great way to get you to think outside of the box…
…and force you to #totes enhance your social media game.
So happy to see numerous peeps attending today’s class.
This course is also very valuable to support upcoming Full Scale Exercise Vigilant Guard with the National Guard too.
Kicking off another basic Social Media class to my friends at the State of New Mexico Department of Health
Many mahalos to Greg, Cynthia, and Nick and the rest of the State of New Mexico Health Department.
Glad to see so many partners in public safety attending today’s class.
Sometimes I get to do some cool things.
My friends at Facebook wanted to showcase their virtual reality (VR) stuff with me.
Shaka + LIKE + @rusnivek
Virtual reality goggles? Yep. The possibilities on Facebook Messenger/chat/meetings are endless.
Software has some inherent challenges esp with the shortfall of hardware proliferation and consistency. Bandwidth issues and requirements are tough enough to manage for reasonable VR interaction and usage.
But overall, some neeto VR stuff.
See, I told you VR is closer than you think.
Thinking about who will be attending my Incident Management Team (IMT) Logistics Section Chief (LSC) Course in February. And as usual, lots of my Emergency Response peeps ask about why do I even care about Logistics esp when most of the work is done by Operations.
Let me break this down for you: Without STUFF, Operations can’t do STUFF. Logistics are the ones to get you STUFF.
Look, I know you need stuff to do stuff. We all do. But the people in Logistics really make magic happen.
That’s why the FEMA EMI IMT LSC course is so important to the success of any planned event, disaster, or emergency.
Logistics really do make the world go round.
Where is @rusnivek? 