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Emergency Management Magazine November / December 2009 November/December 2009 inside: Long-term recovery gets too little attention Rebuilding New Orleans public schools RISE IN DEADLYHELL WILDFIRES HAS COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE RETHINKING STRATEGIES ON Issue 6 — Vol. 4 POWER PLANTS MEDICAL L L L L EMS L L SHIPPING/RAIL L TRANSPORTATION FIRE L LLL The Premier Industrial Emergency Event L L L SAFETY HAZMAT SECURITY PETROCHEMICAL/CHEMICAL FACILITIES Sponsoring Organization: 5th ANNUAL 'FCSVBSZ tHOUSTON, TXt(FPSHF3#SPXO$POWFOUJPO$FOUFS For more information, visit www.ifssevent.com or call 832-242-1969. 100 Blue Ravine Road Designer Creative Dir. Folsom, CA 95630 916-932-1300 Editorial Prepress ���� ������� ������ ����� � PAGE ������������������������� ������������������������� ������������������������� ������������������������� Other OK to go TCIP 2010 TECHNOLOGIES FOR CRITICAL INCIDENT PREPAREDNESS Conference and Exposition Set in historic downtown Philadelphia—with more February 2–4, 2010 than 1,500 attendees, and numerous technology exhibits and demonstrations expected—TCIP 2010 is not to Philadelphia Marriott be missed. Downtown ■ Discover cutting-edge technologies and training tools ■ Share and discuss best practices Registration is ■ Exchange ideas and network with experts FREE! Potential Session Topics: Virtual USA, Pandemic tcipexpo.com Preparedness and Response, Addressing the Active Shooter Threat, and Lessons Learned/Best Practices in Recent Rail Incidents. Critical Connections Linking Responders with Technology 100 Blue Ravine Road Designer Creative Dir. 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Folsom, CA 95630 916-932-1300 Editorial Prepress ���� ������� ������ ����� � PAGE ������������������������� ������������������������� ������������������������� ������������������������� Other OK to go Group Publisher: Don Pearson [email protected] Founding Publisher: Tim Karney [email protected] VP Emergency Management/ Homeland Security: Martin Pastula [email protected] Publisher: Scott Fackert [email protected] Contents Executive Editor: Steve Towns [email protected] EDITORIAL A Editor: Jim McKay [email protected] Associate Editor: Elaine Pittman [email protected] Managing Editor: Karen Stewartson [email protected] Assistant Editor: Matt Williams [email protected] Features Editor: Andy Opsahl [email protected] Chief Copy Editor: Miriam Jones [email protected] Staff Writer: Hilton Collins [email protected] Editorial Assistant: Cortney Towns [email protected] DESIGN Creative Director: Kelly Martinelli [email protected] PHOTO COURTESY OF JOCELYN AUGUSTINO/FEM JOCELYN OF COURTESY PHOTO Senior Designer: Crystal Hopson [email protected] Graphic Designer: Michelle Hamm [email protected] REST OF THE BOOK Illustrator: Tom McKeith [email protected] Production Director: Stephan Widmaier [email protected] Production Manager: Joei Heart [email protected] 8 20 PUBLISHING Contributors Major Player VP of Strategic Accounts: Jon Fyffe [email protected] VP Bus. Development: Tim Karney [email protected] James Featherstone, General Manager, East Los Angeles Emergency Management Department Regional Sales Directors: 10 East Leslie Hunter [email protected] West, Central Shelley Ballard [email protected] Point of View Account Managers: Are Blue-Light Phones Necessary? 54 East Melissa Cano [email protected] West, Central Erin Gross [email protected] Products Business Development Director: Glenn Swenson [email protected] Bus. Dev. Managers: Lisa Doughty [email protected] 12 John Enright [email protected] Pat Hoertling [email protected] In the News 56 Kevin May [email protected] Eric’s Corner: Regional Sales Administrators: Sabrina Shewmake [email protected] Christine Childs [email protected] Lessons Observed, not Learned National Sales Administrator: Jennifer Valdez [email protected] 14 Director of Marketing: Andrea Kleinbardt [email protected] Quick Action Dir. of Custom Events: Whitney Sweet [email protected] Associate Dir. of Custom Events: Lana Herrera [email protected] The Louisiana Recovery School District 58 Custom Events Coordinator: Karin Morgan [email protected] teamed with FEMA for a speedy beginning Dir. of Custom Publications: Stacey Toles [email protected] on the long path of rebuilding New Orleans Last Word Custom Publications Don’t Ignore Needs of the Children Writer: Jim Meyers [email protected] public schools. Director of Web Products and Services: Vikki Palazzari [email protected] Web Services Manager: Peter Simek [email protected] 18 Custom Web Products Manager: Michelle Mrotek [email protected] Web Advertising Manager: Julie Dedeaux [email protected] EM Bulletin Web Services/Project Coordinator: Adam Fowler [email protected] Subscription Coordinator: Gosia Colosimo [email protected] CORPORATE CEO: Dennis McKenna [email protected] Attend All-Hazards, All-Stakeholders Summits Executive VP: Don Pearson [email protected] Emergency Management to visit San Francisco, Seattle and Houston in 2010. Executive VP: Cathilea Robinett [email protected] CAO: Lisa Bernard [email protected] The face of emergency management is becoming more Topics include: CFO: Paul Harney [email protected] complex and the challenges are increasing. ✓ innovating solutions and technology; VP of Events: Alan Cox [email protected] Marketing Director: Drew Noel [email protected] This makes it even more important to engage in cross- ✓ best practices on collaborative emergency management jurisdictional relationships and to learn and share solutions planning; and Government Technology’s Emergency Management is published by e.Republic Inc. © 2009 by e.Republic Inc. All rights reserved. Opinions expressed by writers are for community preparedness and disaster mitigation. ✓ newest U.S. Department of Homeland Security and FEMA not necessarily those of the publisher or editors. Article submissions should be sent to the attention of the Managing Editor. 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