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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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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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Thank you for all the emergency preparedness questions called or emailed in during the fourth installment of the Brian Lehrer Show’s ‘Are You Ready’ series. Though I’m not sure I’m knowledgeable enough to be dubbed a preparedness guru, I hope the series was somewhat informative on an issue — public emergency preparedness – that doesn’t always get a […]

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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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It was really interesting and helpful for me to hear and read the reactions from the listeners of the ”Brian Lehrer Show” to my first appearance of the month — even if many of them were skeptical about the topic. 
Although the spectre of having to deal with major disaster is somewhere in most people’s minds, particularly those of us in the New York area, the subject of public emergency […]

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