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"All workers will be compensated for non-working days thanks to correctly conducted emergency evacuation procedures."
"All of the remaining students were able to be escorted out of the building with faculty and staff."
"We're very excited about the full activation of FEMA."
"Common Ground served as a model for disaster response."
"He said, 'A lack of planning on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on my part.' I got really mad."
"No resource will be spared, nothing whatsoever."
"Lack of planning does not constitute an emergency."
"Not knowing your radio, not understanding how communications work... that's your lifeline."
"More than 100 trauma patients every day came to our hospital which was beyond our limit at a time."
"I wouldn't agree with anything that would reduce parliamentary oversight over the state of emergency process, I wouldn't agree with anything that would attempt to restrict any of the rights guaranteed to the Jamaican people under the charter."
"We have no idea what we're going to discover ... going to run it like an emergency hospital."
"We have to make our way through all of these different emergencies."
"We hire a President to protect us from emergencies, not to create them for us."
"Smoking gun: Joe Biden's Department of Energy blocked Texas from increasing power ahead of the killer storm."
"HOW DO WE ADAPT THAT AS AMERICAN CITIZENS TO A SITUATION WHERE SOMEBODY IN A VERY IMPORTANT POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY IS PLAINLY COMFORTABLE LYING EVEN ABOUT LIFE-THREATENING CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE EMERGENCIES?"
"Kids died that didn't have to because you didn't do the one job you're assigned to do."
"Ransomware attack forces Indiana hospital to turn ambulances away."
"There is just no good excuse for this. Every lifeboat should have been filled to capacity."
"Captain Billy is the real captain; he stays extremely calm in emergencies."
"Rule one in almost any situation in life, certainly in government, certainly in an emergency situation, is to plan forward."
"The scariest day of my life was about a month ago when after a long day of meetings my team told me that we were going to be needing 130,000 ventilators."
"The Surge has always been our biggest concern... it's going to be double that storm surge." - John McDonald, Levy County Florida Emergency Management Director
"FEMA stands for Federal Emergency Management Agency."
"A failure to prepare on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine."
"A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
"Superior judgment can avoid having to use superior skills in an emergency."
"They were so quick... stunning, jaw-dropping."
"They saved the airplane. That was a masterpiece of flying."
"Disaster response is definitely really complex."
"FEMA has already deployed 700 Personnel to Florida and the governor has activated 5 000 State National Guard with another 2 000 guards coming from other states."
"Our ultimate goal is to reassess and open Harding Avenue as quickly as possible."
"What the safe outcome of Flight 1549 proved is that right now the best defense against this threat is a good team in the cockpit."
"Your lack of planning does not make it my emergency."
"Emergency managers face disbelief rather than action in convincing people to evacuate."
"Disasters don't just happen; they're the result of a sequence of events locked together in time."
"There are no disagreements here... We all want to prevent emergencies arising, we want to minimize their impact when they do arise."
"Nursing professions demand the skills necessary for working busy schedules in stressful situations and handling unexpected emergencies in the hospital."
"RSI is the cornerstone of emergency airway management."
"The goal of today's session is to help you learn how to address several types of important emergencies that are going to develop during the course of your work."
"The incident command system is the national standard because it's proven itself to be useful for everything from event planning to emergency response."
"Use of the Incident Command System or ICS makes it possible to do the greatest good for the greatest number of people."
"The goal of doing the greatest good for the greatest number means that triage assessment is brief and that the patient condition categories are basic."
"Urgent starts with a 'U', so that affects only you; emergency starts with an 'E' and it affects everybody."
"So again, management is open airway, ventilation, oxygenation."
"They actually look at the closing of Waffle Houses to see how serious these storms could be."
"Staying calm during an emergency will improve your communication and help keep others calm."