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Disaster Podcast

Jamie Davis, Sam Bradley, Joe Holley, Kyle Nelson

For Emergency Responders at All Levels

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33:12

Disaster Medical Solutions with Vincent Johnson

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2025/05/09

We are joined this week by former FDNY firefighter/paramedic Vincent Johnson. Vinnie comes to us from Disaster Medical Solutions and a former FEMA USAR team in New York. He and Dr. Joe Holley share information about USAR medical specialist operations training for USAR docs and paramedics.

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38:37

Emergency Management Professionals Gather

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2025/05/05

In this episode we talk about a conference a few months back that was attended by both Becky DePodwin and Kyle Nelson. Becky is our Emergency Management disaster expert and Kyle has experience in meteorological issues and is also an educator for emergency managers on social media use and information management during disasters and major events.

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38:37

Training and Deployment of USAR Dogs with Kimberly...

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2025/04/18

This week we take a look at what it takes to train and deploy with USAR dogs during disasters. Dr. Joe Holley's better half, Kimberly comes by to talk about her work with the FEMA team from Memphis, Tennessee. She currently had two trained dogs (one live find dog and a human remains detection dog), Kimberly is currently training a third for live search and rescue.

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33:34

More Severe Weather Strikes Midwest and Southeast

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2025/04/11

Our resident meteorologist and disaster emergency management expert, Becky DePodwin, shares her take on the preparedness challenges when a broad weather front crosses the nation. Many states are dealing with severe rain, winds, and flooding that have caused more than a dozen deaths. In fact, the month of March was the windiest on record.

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35:08

Bright Harbor On Recovery After Disasters

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2025/04/05

Gavin Blair, COO of Bright Harbor, joins the rest of the podcast team tonight. He discusses the unique challenges people face in the aftermath of disaster. Whether it's knowing the best way to file with your insurance company, or how to navigate the FEMA bureaucracy, having an advocate in your corner can be a game-changer.

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43:34

Ready Northwest Builds Disaster Resilient Businesses

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2025/03/14

Edward Coulson from Ready Northwest returns to the Disaster Podcast to share ways businesses can build resiliency plans for disasters and major adverse events. Often overlooked in the community resilience discussion, local and regional businesses are anchors for the financial well being of a community. Including them while planning drills and events can improve the overall community response to a disaster.

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46:58

Telling the Stories of Historical Disasters with Beth...

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2025/03/08

Author Beth Livingston joins the team in this episode to share her accounts of two past disasters here in the United States. First she recounts the personal stories of resilience in The Dayton Flood of 1913. Then she tells the stories of the survivors of The Charleston Earthquake of 1886.

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37:09

Management of USAR Entrapped Trauma Patients

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2025/02/28

In this episode we look at the variable patient presentations USAR docs and paramedics encounter when rescuing individuals from a collapsed structure. Joe points out that these patients vary based on the amount of time that has passed since the initial disaster situation. If you're responding to the early hours after a collapse, your approach is more immediate life threats such as hemorrhage management or opening and maintaining an airway.

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33:25

Dr. Joe Holley on Training and Recent EMS Conferences

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2025/02/21

Dr. Joe Holley comes back after being off the show for a few months due to extensive travel for training and conference attendance. We discuss the inflow of respiratory illness to our nation's hospitals and the difficulties finding rooms and beds for patients who need them.

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43:26

Major Event Planning During Winter XGames with Kyle...

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2025/02/07

Kyle Nelson, our disaster meteorologist and ski patroller, joins us this week in his role as Planning Section Chief with the Winter XGames Aspen Incident Management Team. He shares his experiences planning and helping with operations for medical and response management during the games this year.

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44:09

Investigating Airline Disasters with Edward Colson of...

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2025/02/02

This week on the Disaster Podcast we look at some of the root causes of airline crash disasters and what kinds of things pilots do to avoid midair collisions. Becky DePodwin helped us bring in an Emergency Management colleague, Edward Colson. He's a former commercial helicopter pilot, currently and emergency manager and owner of a consulting firm, Ready Northwest.

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35:35

Exploring the Future of Wildfire Research with NHERI:...

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2025/01/24

Welcome back to the Disaster Podcast, your go-to resource for medical professionals, first responders, and disaster rescue experts. This week’s episode features a returning guest, Dan Zehner, from the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI), alongside our cohosts Sam Bradley (retired firefighter and paramedic) and Jamie Davis (nurse and retired paramedic).

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35:42

California Wildfires and Disaster Messaging

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2025/01/10

On this week's episode, Dan DePodwin joins us to discuss the unique weather implications surrounding the widespread wildfires hitting the Los Angeles area this week. We discuss Santa Ana winds and the source in the mountain deserts around the Four Corners region of the Southwest.

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40:58

2024 on the Disaster Podcast Episode Retrospective

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2025/01/04

Our amazing Disaster Podcast team got together this week to share their favorite episodes from 2024. We covered a lot of topics and disaster responses over the previous year but there were a few standouts for each of us.

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29:58

Holiday and Winter Weather Travel Preparedness Update

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2024/12/20

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 disaster emergency management expert, joins us to cover some of the weather and preparedness concerns.

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46:27

Colorado Avalanche Rescue Dog Training with Carl...

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2024/12/13

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 handling. Ruby, his avalanche search and rescue dog, recently trained with he and Kyle on helicopter acclimation and landing zone handling.

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48:39

Disaster Pre-Planning and Community and Responder...

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2024/11/29

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 Response in the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. He holds an MS Emergency Response and Biosecurity and specialized for a time in Disaster Behavioral Health.

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35:31

Connecting Public-Private Sector Partnerships with...

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2024/11/22

Tom Cotter, MPH, serves as executive director of Healthcare Ready, bringing more than a decade of global health readiness and response expertise to expand nonprofit’s mission-driven work addressing health equity. Healthcare Ready is a nonprofit organization established in 2007 to help strengthen the US healthcare system and assist all communities in planning for, responding to, and recovering from disasters and disease pandemics.

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42:48

NHERI Deploys Resources in Advance of Hurricanes with...

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2024/11/15

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 platforms to detect all the various forces from incoming storms. This was the first full deployment of the Sentinel system.

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40:08

Zeroeyes Active Shooter Detection/Prevention Software

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2024/11/01

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 Commercial Sales for ZeroEyes comes on the show to talk about their ground-breaking software and human verification service that completes the process to eliminate false positives causing needless lockdowns.

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