Posts Tagged: Tsunami
Fukushima: Lessons Learned—Conclusion
A Level 7 Incident
After the explosion involving reactor facility 4, the decision was made to evacuate all “non-essential” personnel and 650 workers left the site, leaving just 70 to continue the stabilization work.
In addition to the three rea…
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Fukushima: Lessons Learned (Part Four)
Explosions
As March 12th dawned the reactors continued out of control with the plant largely reliant on the built-in design safeguards to cope with surging pressures and temperatures. There was a vital need for electricity so that operating paramete…
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Fukushima: Lessons Learned (Part Three)
Flying Blind
The incoming tsunamis, much larger than planned for, had destroyed back-up electrical generation capability when the diesel generators were swamped and electrical switch gear wetted. Electricity was vital in order to monitor the conditi…
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Fukushima: Lessons Learned (Part Two)
Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
The plant is located on the northeast coast of Japan about 120 miles from Tokyo. It consists of six (6) GE-designed Boiling Water Reactors. The steam energy from the boiling water is used to drive turbines which creat…
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Fukushima: Lessons Learned (Part One)
Today begins a five-part series on the events which unfolded at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant as workers tried to simultaneously stabilize three out-of-control reactors after the deadly earthquake. Fukushima will surely stand as one of the …
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Social Media: The ‘Why’ Needs to Come First (Part 2)
In the first half of this two-part blog, I discussed the outwardly directed reasons for using social media. Those are the reasons that relate to communicating a message from your organization to a specific audience. Just like older media forms, socia…
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Social Media: The ‘Why’ Needs to Come First (Part 1)
Since I started "doing social media" back in 2009, I have found plenty of great articles with tips covering the "how-to" and etiquette for lots of specific social media tools (here are some good articles on Twitter, Facebook, and video blogging use …
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The Fukushima 50: Firefighters, police, soldiers & nuclear plant technicians face increasing radiation exposure as they try to prevent catastrophe.
Fukushima 50 getting increasing attention around the world.
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Raw video: U.S. search & rescue teams in action in Japan.
Plus CNN report from embedded crew.
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Off my game, Firefighter Netcast and Firemen hitting cops!
I think I may be in a "slump". Now, I've never been the articulate type (yea.. I used a "big" word) but usually, I get my point across. I don't know why but a lot of the folks I've met through this site say they love it because of my style of writing. …
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Japan update: Fairfax County battalion chief describes operations. Photos of VATF-1 in action. Local rescuers find 70-year-old woman trapped for four days.
Fairfax County Fire & Rescue Department Battalion Chief Chris Schaff talks about VATF-1's intiial operations in Japan.
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Report from Japan: Virginia & California teams on the ground.
VATF-1 and CATF-1 going to work.
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Japanese firefighters in Menlo Park, California for search & rescue training are trying to get home.
A dozen firefighters from Japan haven been training for the past week in Menlo Park.
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Fairfax County USAR mobilized. Virginia Task Force 1 readying to help out in Northern Japan.
Team is getting equipment ready in Fairfax County.
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The Ultimate Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Situational Internet Resource List
his is a growing list of online resources from around the globe the provide the detailed, 24 hour coverage of the Japan disasters.
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EMS “Frequent Flyer” Abuse
A recent article at JEMS.com on EMS System Abuse told of examples of "frequent flyers" (that is non-emergency patients requesting multiple transports by EMS agencies on a fairly regular basis) many of which would be amusing if they weren't so sad. The …
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“No Available EMS”
No one really wants to read a bad story about some other EMS agency, but it is even worse to read a similar story about your own. The purpose of this post is not to make Detroit into some EMS "posterchild" but intended to shed some light on simil…
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Breaking News: Huge Earthquake Hits Chile
Quake was reported as being an 8.8 magnitude and is also the cause of a tsunami that is expected to strike various nations in the Pacific basin.
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