Despite the continued professionalization of emergency management and the expanded roles and responsibilities of emergency managers, many local governments still view emergency management as a ...

Artificial intelligence is everywhere, but for emergency management professionals, the real question is how to use it meaningfully. In a field where public trust, speed, and accuracy are critical, AI ...

With State of Emergency, Rockstar and Vis have isolated one of the oldest game types, the beat-'em-up, and have brought it up-to-date, stretched it out, and made it newer, more frenetic, and wilder ...

Imagine the following scenario: you are the Incident Commander at a warehouse fire that is known to have a large quantity of hazardous materials stored. Dispatch notifies you that "Evacuation of the ...

In my last blog I reviewed nine common characteristics of emergency managers found in a survey of the current research literature by researchers Jenna Tyler and Abdul-Akeem Sadiq. These ...

If collaboration is the backbone of effective emergency management, communication is the connective tissue that holds it all together. Every decision, from evacuation orders to resource allocation, ...

Today, as part of an ongoing effort to strengthen its overall emergency preparedness and response efforts, CenterPoint Energy conducted its annual full-scale emergency response exercise in preparation ...