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A Citizen’s Eye View of Public Preparedness

Entries from September 2008

Grover (Sesame Street) — “What Should We Tell The Public?”/National Preparedness Month

September 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Sesame Street’s lovable Grover is the first furry blue monster to take part in this blog’s “What Should We Tell The Public?” video series. 
Grover is a spokes-Muppet for Sesame Workshop’s impressive preparedness program for young kids and their families, “Let’s Get Ready! Planning Together For Emergencies” done in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Homeland [...]

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Some Of My Top Citizen Preparedness-Related Songs — Please Suggest Your Own

September 28th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Over the past few years working on the issue of public preparedness and engagement, I have found myself noting songs and lyrics I’ve heard that I think touch on related themes. So, I thought I’d post videos from YouTube (along with some selected lyrics) of four songs that I find particularly resonant and representative of the [...]

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Playing With The Pigskin For Preparedness

September 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Citizen preparedness and touch football are not usually found in the same sentence. But thanks to my Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) teammate Janine McGoldrick, they are being linked in a way that will help public readiness in my community. Janine plays in a touch football league here organized by a company called Zog Sports (www.ZogSports.com), [...]

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Tags: Preparedness Events · Preparedness Ideas

Michael Chertoff (Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security) — “What Should We Tell The Public?”/National Preparedness Month

September 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

In this National Preparedness Month segment of “What Should We Tell The Public?”, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff urges Americans to create and think through an emergency plan for their family so they are in a position to deal with almost any situation they might face. In the video, shot at the Department’s headquarters in Washington, [...]

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Blog Helps Inspire Reader To Volunteer For Red Cross Disaster Training

September 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

One of my main objectives in starting this blog was to encourage and help other citizens to get more involved in emergency preparedness by describing my own experiences. So, I couldn’t have been more thrilled to receive an email last week from a reader named Valerie Berg in Boulder, Colorado.
Valerie wrote that she had wanted [...]

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Tags: Preparedness Lessons · Reader Feedback

Lee Hamilton (Co-Chair, “9/11 Commission”) — “What Should We Tell The Public?”/National Preparedness Month

September 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I am honored to be able to include Lee Hamilton in the “What Should We Tell The Public?” series. Former Congressman Hamilton (D-Indiana), the Co-Chair of the “9-11 Commission”, is currently the President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars in Washington, D.C..
In this video, Mr. Hamilton emphasizes the importance of the public [...]

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I Went To Washington, D.C. And (Not) All I Got Was This “Top Ten Things Needed For An Emergency” Shirt

September 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

I am in Washington, D.C. today primarily to do some interviews. But being a sucker for a good public readiness event, I dropped by a preparedness fair being organized by the District’s Homeland Security Emergency Management Agency in Farragut Square near the White House. I picked up some interesting and creative promotional preparedness items including a [...]

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Jerry Hauer (The Hauer Group) — “What Should We Tell The Public?”/National Preparedness Month

September 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Jerry Hauer has decades of experience in emergency management, public health and homeland security at the top levels of local, state, and federal government.  He was New York City’s first director of the Office of Emergency Management, head of Indiana’s Emergency Management Agency, and Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services for [...]

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In Interview, DHS Secretary Chertoff Says Citizen Preparedness Should Be Repositioned As New Responsibility Of Citizenship; Part Of 21st Century Education, Parenting; And Be Piggy-Backed On Youth Fire Safety Programs & Environmental Enthusiasm

September 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

With September being National Preparedness Month, I had the opportunity to speak with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff about the issue of citizen preparedness. In the interview, held at DHS headquarters in Washington, just before he headed to the Gulf coast for Hurricane Gustav, Chertoff acknowledged that while the Ready.Gov awareness campaign has made [...]

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Ben Borgia (Advocate For Bali Terror Bombing Victims) — What Should We Tell The Public?/National Preparedness Month

September 21st, 2008 · No Comments

I recently had the great pleasure to meet a lovely Australian man named Ben Borgia. Ben’s mother and his 13-year-old sister — in Bali together on a mother/daughter vacation — were killed in the 2002 terrorist bombing of a restaurant/club. He is in the U.S. to speak at a United Nations forum on terrorist victims.
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