Head of Preparedness for a Category 1 responder. PhD from Swansea University about tear gas and memory. Gardening, BSB and Ospreys fan always. No poker face.
I do challenge the advice about stockpiling Sauvignon blanc.
Surely better to stockpile a red - because if the power goes down, the white would be room temperature, which would be simply ghastly.
The state still has obligations here. The water and power companies still have obligations here. It can appear they are shifting the burden of response on to public and we fight that as emergency planners every day
@LucyGoBag Really interested in the analogy of the little birds as also being future disaster canaries. A lot of the initial reporting about security failings at a newly-opened Manchester venue came from teenagers witnessing the disarray, conscious of 22/5/17 and not wanting to see a repeat
Denmark’s IKEA stores are preparing to serve as emergency shelters and temporary hospitals during crises, with plans to use display beds for accommodation, restaurants for food and generators for backup power https://t.co/UUZfVfkXUn
@LucyGoBag Hopefully they’ve updated all the links to CRRs that don’t work (she says, having tried them all again this morning and STILL seeing error 404s, pages not found, and documents from nearly a decade ago!!!!!!)
Ha! You're absolutely right. There *is* a 737 waiting to take off on Runway 19. 🛫 I probably shouldn't have cleared AA5404 to land there. 😳 I'm here if you need any tips and tricks for handling mass casualty incidents. 🚒🚑✨
on a scale from "maybe we'll hold off on that road trip for now" to "yeah I reckon the backyard is big enough for a horse", how bad is this fuel crisis going to be
🇫🇷 Investigators suspect that a train derailment in northwest France which injured 44, one gravely, was the result of sabotage, a police source told AFP on Saturday.
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