You’d be remiss in thinking that critical events, a catch-all term for disruptive incidents and emergencies, would ebb after years of unabated...

The value of an emergency management software tool

The number of emergencies seem to increase yearly. So too do their financial costs.

Back-to-back crises have forced many governments to develop robust Resilience strategies. But words on paper are one thing. Serious innovation is...

Getting information format and flow right during a disaster is never easy. In fact, the collecting, collating, recording, and sharing of information...

Starting with the Incident Command System (ICS) in the late 1970s, major incident command, frameworks have emerged to tackle the challenges...

Being stymied trying to invest in the right digital emergency management software platform to stay safe, avoid property damage, and recover quickly?...

Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) are activated when a major incident takes place. But as we’ve learned, the type of EOC matters, as well. Virtual...

Recovering from a major disaster is difficult. That’s why local, state, and federal governments dole out some form of financial assistance. That...

Does it need to be said that emergency communications differ from communications in everyday life? Perhaps not. But it’s the specific ways in which...

Emergency responders can no longer rely on single sources of information to establish a complete picture of a fluid environment. Instead,...

At the beginning of this month, Australia debuted a new fire rating danger system. Improved and simplified to make it easier to make decisions to...

The aim of decision support is to enable agencies to detect and report incidents automatically. Decision support also helps agencies adapt their...