Disaster Podcast

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Holiday and Winter Weather Travel Preparedness Update
December 20, 2024

With the approaching holidays here at the end of December, along with the accompanying winter storms tracking across the midwest and into the northeast, it's important to review preparedness and travel warnings for your region. Becky DePodwin, our disaste

Colorado Avalanche Rescue Dog Training with Carl Kishbaugh
December 13, 2024

Our ski patrol and disaster meteorology expert, Kyle Nelson, comes by the episode tonight with fellow snow and mountain rescue expert Carl Kishbaugh. Karl is a ski-patroller with years of experience in mountain and ski-lift rescue as well as avalanche dog

Disaster Pre-Planning and Community and Responder Preparedness
November 29, 2024

Henry Mitchell joined the show and we switched gears to discuss emergency planning and management of diverse community resources to prepare to respond to emergencies and disaster situations. Henry is Deputy Director Office of Emergency Preparedness Respon

Connecting Public-Private Sector Partnerships with Healthcare Ready
November 22, 2024

Tom Cotter, MPH, serves as executive director of Healthcare Ready, bringing more than a decade of global health readiness and response expertise to expand nonprofits mission-driven work addressing health equity. Healthcare Ready is a nonprofit organizati

NHERI Deploys Resources in Advance of Hurricanes with Dan Zehner
November 15, 2024

The National Science Foundation NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) organization had teams out in advance of the recent hurricanes to strike Florida. They set up for the Sentinel Program from the University of Florida to use sensor

Zeroeyes Active Shooter Detection/Prevention Software
November 01, 2024

ZeroEyes technology delivers a proactive, human-verified visual gun detection and situational awareness solution. It integrates into existing digital security cameras on a site to stop mass shootings and gun-related violence. Jonathan Norton, VP of Commer

Citizen Cardiac Arrest Response with Pulsepoint
October 25, 2024

Former San Ramon Valley Fire Chief Richard Price was having lunch one day when he saw one of his engines stopping in front of the restaurant. Someone in an adjacent business had suffered a cardiac arrest. What really bothered him was that he, a trained r

Med Global’s Ukraine Mission
October 18, 2024

Tim Conley and Dr. Kateryna Riabko from Med Global to talk about the training mission they worked on together in Ukraine. Med Global provides surgical and nursing training along with equipment training with things like ultrasound devices. They also work t

Helene Response Update with Dr. Joe Holley in the Field
October 08, 2024

Disaster Podcast host Sam Bradley reached out and connected with Dr. Joe Holley while deployed in the field. Joe has been hard at work with the FEMA IST (Federal Emergency Management Agency Incident Support Team) while they supported teams in the field fo

Hurricane Milton 2024 Potential Impacts and Predictions
October 07, 2024

On this episode of the Disaster Podcast, host Sam Bradley takes the helm to lead a discussion with our team about the impending impacts of Hurricane Milton on the central Florida Gulf Coast. Disaster Meteorologists Dan DePodwin and Kyle Nelson jump in wit