“Big Fire?..Bring a big hose.”
Someone at the Wa. St. Fire Academy taught me the importance of aggressive hose attacks on large fires if the resources are available. Given that natural Wildfires are Class A…
Augmenting Pacific Northwest Emergency Management Practices to Include Maritime Infrastructure for Natural Disasters
The Pacific Northwest is a very dangerous place when the ground shakes. It is best not to be in contact with the ground when it does. What options are there for…
Combination Marina/Public Tsunami Safe Haven
Can we simultaneously protect strategically vital Pacific NW watercraft and the public from tsunami inundation with the same structure? Seismically resistant watercraft of all sizes and shapes will be strategically…
Anti-Tsunami Civil Engineering
Note: In an effort to minimize Coastal seismic impact, I submitted via Facebook an anti-Tsunami Civil Engineering project. This eventually got a reply from the CEO of CanadaPond Products, suppliers…
Managing Tsunami Debris During Inundation Phases
History reflects tsunami debris fields remaining for extended periods after a community has endured both earthquake and inundation, first posing as an immediate conflagration fire threat, then becoming sources of…
Water Adaptive Structures
This is another area I only have a layman’s experience in, but like everyone else I have a vested interest in human structures. I’m curious because parts of my previous…
Getting Emergency Management to Work?
How will we get our key Emergency Management personnel to their jobs when the Cascadia Megaquake strikes? I’ve included this question for the betterment of Natural Disaster Stratagem Investigations. This…
Disaster Resistant Structures
Some of my previous work exposed me to the importance of pre fire building planning, but overall disaster resistance was not what I focused on. However, it appears we will…
Conflagration/Wildland Firefighting and Aerial Resupply Systems
To my knowledge planet Earth is the only known place where fire exists and history reflects this natural condition has always had the potential to devastate entire communities even in…
Public Fire Shelters
I have no background in forest management but having spent my entire life in the Pacific Northwest, I have found we are both blessed and cursed with its vast forests….
The Case for Global Naval Disaster Response Fleets, and the Use of Deep Water Marine Caches For Local Disaster Preparedness
Current world conditions reveal large populations inhabiting known Seismic areas, thus exposing them to devastating Tsunami’s as well if located near Marine environments. Many of these same populations are also…