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The Dukes bring on Nicolette Louissaint, the Executive Director of Healthcare Ready, to talk the Hurricane Maria disaster in Puerto Rico, the federal response, and her work helping the healthcare system to recover. Spoiler alert: It's all about comms and logistics. Plus, Nicolette can do wicked things with bombs, Andrew plans to rule IAEM and Mitch realizes he has no idea what silicon is (trust us, it's relevant). And, yes, we totally forgot to cover the US Virgin Islands, but we feel really bad about it.
The Dukes relive a heroic day with Drs. Tricia Wachtendorf and James Kendra, authors of American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11. From the first impact on the towers, boat captains came by the dozens to rescue hundreds of thousands of survivors in under nine hours. If you...
Published 09/11/18
Mitch and Andrew swallow the red pill with Kathleen Tierney, the former head of the Natural Hazards Center, and learn how society creates disaster risk as well as how homeland security after 9/11 made things worse, not better. Plus, the best congressional testimony of all time (seriously) and how...
Published 08/30/18