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This week on Mitigation Journal:
The size of fire apparatus, Building a safer ambulance(?), emergency and disaster information services and map, and sheltering in place.

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FLA responders use CyanoKit: Check out the dangers of carbon monoxide and cyanide at:
http://mitigationjournal.blogspot.com/2007/01/cyanide-deadly-partner-of-carbon.html

and related article on blood agents and suicide: http://mitigationjournal.blogspot.com/2008/04/suicide-by-blood-agent.html

In search of readiness in the US, Will it ever exist?
Check out the blog articles:
http://mitigationjournal.blogspot.com/2008/06/in-search-of-preparedness-in-america.html
http://mitigationjournal.blogspot.com/2005/11/stop-training-for-terrorist-and-wmd.html
http://mitigationjournal.blogspot.com/2006/02/just-remember-it-cant-happen-here_03.html

and the importance of vacation...info from Monster.com

Welcome to Mitigation Journal  - The All Hazards Podcast

Visit the Mitigation Journal Blog for updated news and commentary at www.mitigationjournal.blogspot.com
Contact us...you can email anytime mitigationjournal@gmail.com or call our voice mail line at 585-672-7844

This week:

More about fuel costs and impact on preparedness and everyday logistics: how rising fuel costs WILL crumple your emergency plans if you don't start doing something now.

Helicopter versus Hospital:
Air medical helicopter crashes on hospital rooftop landing pad: landing a helicopter on top of your hospital is flashy, but is it the best way to do it. The crash of a medical helicopter on the rooftop landing pad of a Grand Rapids, Michigan, hospital displays the need for Rule of Outcomes thinking. This crash resulted in patient evacuations, power loss, closure of an emergency department...and the only level one trauma center in the area, along with burning aviation fuel, smoke and contamination potential. Is it time to rethink where we land our helicopters?

National Preparedness Month: September, 2008
Get Kit - make a plan - get informed - get involved. Mitigation Journal is a National Preparedness Month Coalition member. This week we'd like to remind everyone that businesses, large and small, are important parts of our community infrastructure...they need to plan for disaster and crisis situations, too!

To Live or Die in Disaster:
If you're on this list...no treatment for you! An interesting twist to health care resource triage. A group of physicians have published a list of "conditions" that would not be treated in a disaster situation in effort to save resources. Interesting to say the least...more on this for sure!