Just returned from Franktown Colorado after spending 8 days locked down with the Mission Centred Solutions (MCS) team developing a new leadership program for community members based on the recognised and internationally successful Fireline Leadership program. The Fireline Leadership program has been conducted for response agencies in the US, Australia, Canada, and NZ over the [...]
The Falls Music & Arts Festival is a multi-day music festival held annually in Lorne, and each year for the past 9 years I have been conducting different emergency response scenarios for the Falls Festival team, all Emergency Response Agencies, Event security, and Shire staff members. Previous scenarios have included, bushfire, storm, terrorist, drug [...]
Early this December, myself and Steve Cameron from EMV, ran the “What’s the plan now” scenario workshop for the Anglesea community. The intent of the scenario is match the communities perception of a bushfire event impacting Anglesea with the reality of emergency response, particularly when the town’s population swells to over 20,000 and only [...]
