Alan Thompson

Phones, Fires and Failures

Date: 06/07/2020

Location: Online Via Zoom!

Lecture Summary

Phones, Fires, and Failures is an audio/video presentation about emergency communications planning and execution that failed during the Camp Fire and similar events, and suggests ways to help our communities stay safer in the event of similar disasters here.

One thing is clear: We must find more resilient solutions to help ensure our communities get timely, life-saving information about fast-moving disasters, especially in light of our present-day over-reliance on cell phones and the Internet for everything - technologies which, in turn, depend on a trillion dollars of vulnerable infrastructure not to fail. The Presentation also offers suggestions on how we all can help to make our communities safer in the event of local disasters or emergencies.

You can view a 22-minute Presentation of Phones, Fires, and Failures here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9fu0f2twhaaxdz7/Phones%20Fires%20and%20Failures-2021-09-02-Generic.mp4


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Emergency Services