Fire From Above: How to Survive A Volcanic Eruption
A peaceful Sunday afternoon, sun-bathing in the coastal areas of the Pacific, nothing can go wrong. After all, this feels like paradise. A loud siren wails across the calm skies, deafening the ears of the locals. Meanwhile, you grab your radio and tune in to the news. Evacuation orders have been given, you are to flee immediately, leaving behind your possessions and saving your skin. The reason? A volcanic eruption the likes of which is unheard of, is imminent. When a volcano erupts, get ready for hell. A volcano can spew out magma, pyroclastic rocks, sulfur, methane, carbon monoxide, and other toxic chemicals that can cause asphyxiation and death. Not to mention these invisible gases often contain sharp minuscule glass, rock, and metals that when inhaled, could cut up your lungs, esophagus, and internal organs. Pyroclast explosion and debris can reach as far as 50 miles away from the volcano,…
COVID-19 Part Deux: The Delta Variant
On January 2020, the world encountered it’s most dangerous enemy. This enemy was not a terrorist group like Al-Qaeda. This enemy was not some rogue nation that would like nothing more than to set off a nuclear war. This enemy was the invisible enemy. This enemy was the silent enemy. This enemy is still the enemy of the world. This enemy continues to haunt the normality of daily living of citizens spread across 172 countries. This enemy is the SARS-CoV-2, better known as the Covid-19 disease. And while all people know this common enemy and the threat it has imposed on a global population of nearly 8 billion people, a global effort in social distancing, PPE wearing, lockdowns, and vaccination efforts have eased the minds of a nervous population. It seems that a return to normalcy is near as economies are recovering and unemployment rates are dropping. But what a…
How to Keep the Heat Down During the Holidays
The holidays are upon us. Many of us are making plans to visit our families during the holidays. Others are just wanting to get out of the house from being stuck indoors for eight months due to this pandemic. And while we are all taking precautions to keep ourselves safe from the coronavirus, we must not forget that when the cold weather comes, when we decorate our homes with Christmas lights, when we use our ovens for preparing delicious holiday feasts, the risk of kitchen fires, electrical fires, or fires emanating from unextinguished cigarettes increase. Last year, in the month of December, I was called by the American Red Cross to respond to seven fires. One of the worst fires I responded to was the Alpine Motel fire which claimed several lives and displaced dozens of Las Vegans. The Las Vegas Fire Department deemed at as being the most deadly…
Political Corruption
Hello everyone! I am back with another survival tip for you all. In my last blog, I received many harsh comments on social media platforms. These responses covered all boundaries. some were death threats, some were aimed at me supporting a certain presidential candidate and that my job would not exist if he were to become president. Other comments were aimed at my subject of focus, emergency management. One example, an emergency manager in Las Vegas made the comment that my post had nothing to do with emergency management because he deemed it was too political. Well, if informing the public of a president who has coronavirus and is deliberately infecting others by not taking safety precautions, or if the same president is faking he has coronavirus just to sympathize with Americans and win votes, only for him to lead our country into more chaos and social discrimination, isn’t emergency…
What Would be the next Global Disaster?
It has been a while since I last posted here in my blog. My previous blogs contained content that were relevant to the then current happenings of the world, mostly stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. This time though, things are a little bit more serious. A looming threat is geared to fulfill prophecy, a prophecy that has been culminating for over 1000 years. This looming threat will devastate the world. If you thought the COVID pandemic was the threat that would have destroyed the world population; that was only the icing on the cake. What I am about to describe here has been well-documented and is highly expected, but no one in a hundred years would have actually banked on it to happen so soon. I would say within the next decade, heck maybe even within the next three to five years, that worst-case scenario is about to happen, and…
How to Survive Mob Rule (Riots)
Given the diversity of the United States, it is impossible to please nearly 800 million people. Social issues, unfavorable government action or inaction, police corruption…you name it. Every topic can be considered as a hot topic that can trigger anger and retaliation from affected community groups. What can start as a peaceful protest, given the right triggers, can lead to violent rioting. Riots are scary and anyone involved in rioting should be considered dangerous, whether be it the protestors or the police force sent to quell the situation. What is even worse, among both groups are what we call the ‘elevation variables’. Elevation variable can be people, objects or actions that can and will elevate the current situation into something far worse. Some examples of human elevation variables are extremists groups or anarchists who want nothing more than to see societal collapse. They can hide among the peaceful protestors and…
A Different Strategy For A Different Pandemic
If you watched the news recently, you may have heard of a little infamous microbe that has infected over 5.50 million people worldwide and has caused just over 350,000 deaths as well. SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, has rocked the world between the late 2019’s and the early 2020 months. As of now, many countries are showing signs of the infections slowing down, while other developed countries are still suffering. When dealing with a pandemic, world leaders, health practitioners, epidemiologists, and even community members are all part of the response. FEMA recognizes the “Whole Community” approach in which each individual has a responsibility and role to play before, during, and after a disaster. This is no different. But the world leaders determine what type of strategy to use, and there citizens will either follow or become unruly. The USA, a great country, and the only…