disasters are space-time tricksters
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Disasters Are Space-Time Tricksters. Gus Koehler, Ph.D., CEO, Time Structures, Inc. Sacramento, Calif. Preplan to Establish Order. Existing systems need to be strengthened so that they can expand their existing routines and roles Standard training for all responders to ICS - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Disasters Are Space-Time Tricksters
Gus Koehler, Ph.D., CEO,
Time Structures, Inc.Sacramento, Calif.
Preplan to Establish Order
• Existing systems need to be strengthened so that they can expand their existing routines and roles
• Standard training for all responders to ICS
• Agreements between multiple agencies to resolve resource sharing and scope of decision making
• Measureable benchmarks and standards established
• Supplies and logistics systems identified and tested
• Communications
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Disaster Strategy Involves Cunning in organizing the Response to the Trickery of
the EventTiming: first see the overall background timing imposed by the disaster.
Applicable timing is results from appreciating the fast and slow timings of critical parts.
Cunning and Trickery: To trick someone is to destroy their boundaries.
A disaster breaks the boundary of the day-to-day life of the city and of the responder’s planned strategy
Response “cunning” is responding to emergent opportunities and using the disaster’s timing to create a new response and a “controlled” disaster
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The structure andBoundaries ofThe City Are Redefined inUnexpected Ways
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Disaster Can Move in Space Time
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A Moving DisasterOn the Sacramento River: Cantara Metam-Sodium Train Spill
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Sacramento Metamsodium Cantara Train River Spill
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The Trickster Laughs• Plan for when space-time events are likely to
occur and for their profile (equipment, supplies, personnel); expect disruption
• Practice on paper and in real time; assume ½ the trained people won’t show up
• Predict when parts will fail; practice for failure
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• Develop personal trust and confidence in fellows; they will get tired and be replaced by unknowns
• Combination of anticipatory, bench-marked and tested top down structure with cunningly developed self-organizing and emergent response from the bottom up
• Knowledgeable, cunning managers and responders with timely access to the right information and resources is the pre-disaster training and organizing goal