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A Citizen’s Eye View of Public Preparedness

WNYC ‘Are You Ready’ Series Recruits A Second CERT Member

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments

I just received some terrific news from Pat Salins, the leader of the CERT team in Manhattan’s Community Board 6. She told me that a neighborhood resident heard me discussing about my CERT experiences on the WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show last month and decided to join up.
 
This would be the second person I know who has joined CERT as a result of the WNYC series, which [...]

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Tags: CERT

Responding To More Listener Questions From “Brian Lehrer Show” Website

April 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I had promised to respond to some of the questions sent in by listeners on the “Brian Lehrer Show” website which we didn’t get to during the shows.
As a nation, we rarely talk about citizen preparedness publicly. Based on the phone and online reaction to the shows, it is clear that there is a lot [...]

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Tags: Q & A

Brian Lehrer Show Appearance — Part Four of ‘Are You Ready’ Series

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

This morning was the fourth and final installment of the month-long Are You Ready series I have been doing on WNYC’s the “Brian Lehrer Show”. An audio file is at the Brian Lehrer Show website. It was really interesting and enjoyable for me to talk about citizen preparedness and in particular to get the comments and questions from [...]

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Brian Lehrer Show — ‘Are You Ready’ 3

April 17th, 2008 · No Comments

The third installment of the ‘Are You Ready’ series I am doing on the “The Brian Lehrer Show” is now available on the web. Just click thru to the show page and scroll down.
 
Above is a photo with my “Go-Bag” and ‘comfort items’ as we try to encourage submissions to our Flickr project. I am hoping we’ll get a lot of [...]

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Preparedness Interview/Flickr ‘Go Bag’ Project on “Brian Lehrer Show” Today

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Today, I will be on the The Brian Lehrer Show (820AM/93.9FM) between 10:40am-11:00am. I am appearing on the show every week in April to discuss emergency preparedness in a series titled “Are You Ready”. Last week’s segment focused on my involvement in the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteer program. 
 
One of the topics we are going to cover today is how to [...]

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Tags: Media