Episodes

  • Hurricane Helene Update and Impacts

    Hurricane Helene Update and Impacts
    Sep 27 2024
    The Disaster Podcast team assembled to look at the impacts of Hurricane Helene on the Florida gulf coast at the big bend region. It will also have significant impacts on inland areas in Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and even southern Indiana and Illinois.
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    19 mins
  • Hurricane Francine Aftermath and West Coast Wildfires

    Hurricane Francine Aftermath and West Coast Wildfires
    Sep 20 2024
    Disaster Meteorologist Dan DePodwin joins our podcast this week to review the impacts of Hurricane Francine. This storm struck the Louisiana coast and moved inland over Mississippi, Tennessee and surrounding areas. Dan and the co-hosts also discuss the impacts of wildfires in the west. California, Oregon, and Washington states bear the brunt of the recent spate of serious wildfires. Dan shares how these large areas of fire create their own weather patterns.
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    28 mins
  • Paragon Medical Group Educator Discusses Disaster Experience

    Paragon Medical Group Educator Discusses Disaster Experience
    Sep 13 2024
    Dan Harris, Battalion Chief with Memphis, Tennessee Fire Department joins us in his other role as one of the Paragon Medical Group disaster educators. He shares key memories of training evolutions and how he learns from the jurisdictional differences he encounters with his students. Dr. Joe Holley joins the discussion as well and shares several anecdotes about Dan's contribution to the training team.
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    32 mins
  • Maintaining Communications In Difficult Response Situations with GoTenna

    Maintaining Communications In Difficult Response Situations with GoTenna
    Aug 30 2024
    In this episode, we chat with Jameson Morgan, Director of Partnerships for goTenna. GoTenna is a company that provides critical network communications solutions for military, government, and emergency services personnel. It enables them to maintain contact in rough environments where standard communications methods experience difficulties.
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    29 mins
  • Hurricanes Debby and Ernesto Aftermath

    Hurricanes Debby and Ernesto Aftermath
    Aug 18 2024
    Our disaster meteorologist, Dan DePodwin, joins us this week to talk about Hurricanes Debby and Ernesto. Debby caused widespread flooding from Florida to upstate New York. Dan and Becky DePodwin share an experience driving during the passage of Debby's remnants in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
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    33 mins
  • Educating Ukrainian Medical Personnel

    Educating Ukrainian Medical Personnel
    Aug 9 2024
    In this episode of the Disaster Podcast we talk with nurse Alicia Bean who is preparing for a return trip with IDMC to Ukraine where she works educating medical personnel on trauma and other best practices. Interstate Disaster Medical Collaborative (IDMC) provides a forum for collaboration, cooperation and coordination of disaster medical experts, assets and systems. The teams are comprised of state and regional providers of mass gathering and disaster medical care.
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    34 mins
  • Wildfires and Disaster Resilient Construction

    Wildfires and Disaster Resilient Construction
    Aug 2 2024
    Dan Zehner from NHERI rejoins us for today's episode. The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, NHERI, is a shared-use network funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation. They conduct studies of natural hazards and their effects on manmade infrastructure elements to determine safer and more resilient construction methods and materials.
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    39 mins
  • Hurricane Beryl Aftermath and Lessons Learned

    Hurricane Beryl Aftermath and Lessons Learned
    Jul 12 2024
    Our Meteorologist Dan Depodwin joins Dr. Joe Holley and our cohosts Sam Bradley and Jamie Davis on this episode. The team looks at the early major hurricane named Beryl that caused a revision of the current seasonal hurricane forecast to reflect an even more active season this year.
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    34 mins