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Disasters Are Space-Time Tricksters

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

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Disasters Are Space-Time Tricksters

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  1. Disasters Are Space-Time Tricksters Gus Koehler, Ph.D., CEO, Time Structures, Inc. Sacramento, Calif.

  2. 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 Time Structures

  3. Disaster Strategy Involves Cunning in organizing the Response to the Trickery of the Event Timing: 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 Time Structures

  4. Time Structures

  5. The structure and Boundaries of The City Are Redefined in Unexpected Ways

  6. Time Structures

  7. Time Structures

  8. Disaster Can Move in Space Time Time Structures

  9. A Moving Disaster On the Sacramento River: Cantara Metam- Sodium Train Spill Time Structures

  10. Sacramento Metamsodium Cantara Train River Spill Time Structures

  11. 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 Time Structures

  12. 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

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