[EAS] Whole New Ballgame

[Richard Rudman]

Bill Ruck posted good advice on one of my favorite topics, emergency public information and warning improvement. Bill is correct in his observations and conclusions.

I could not agree with Art more in his response to Bill about the need to have every public safety and emergency management official view the Mileti video. I first became aware of Dennis Mileti when he contributed to Los Angeles County emergency planning retreats held in the 80's. Warning research by serious students of human behavior going back more than 70 years are available to one and all. His research (and a lot more) is archived at the Colorado State Natural Hazards Center:

 https://hazards.colorado.edu/biography/dennis-mileti

Dennis' contributions to the work of the Partnership for Public Warning, Inc. (PPW) were invaluable. They helped to form a research-based premise for many of the recommendations we made in our reports to FEMA/DHS, FCC, NOAA/NWS and other agencies.

This is an excerpt from an Op-Ed I just wrote for Barry Mishkind's Broadcaster's Desktop Resource:

"I submit until the United States and all of its 50 states, territories, and protectorates adopt a total, unified warning strategy that is set in stone in the National Incident Management System (NIMS), we will continue to spin our wheels on planning, training, testing and execution of this vital human function .... Looking to the FCC, FEMA, or NOAA/NWS as individual entities cannot get it done."

Richard Rudman
Former Trustee, PPW, Inc.

>On Feb 17, 2018, at 6:37 PM, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES <Arthur.Botterell at CalOES.ca.gov> wrote:

>In my estimation this is a video that should be shown... by force if necessary... to every public safety and emergency management official in the land, as well as to everyone else who believes there must be a better way.  Dennis doesn't call for utopia, but merely for more effective use of the capabilities we already have.