BOLDplanning Travels South, Works to Finalize EOP and COOP Plans in Georgia
For Tennessee-based BOLDplanning, it’s always a pleasure to travel south to neighboring Georgia, especially Douglas County. The County uses the BOLDplanning.com platform for both its emergency and continuity planning. Last week’s visit (July 25 and 26) to Douglasville, the [...]
Common Emergency Planning Pitfalls and How You Can Avoid Them
Developing a meaningful and actionable Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) is no easy task. Neither is keeping the plan current given changes in organizational resources (personnel and equipment), or even changes within the community the plan is written to serve. [...]
Cyberattacks: A Real and Growing Threat for State & Local Governments
We all live and work in a digital world, and that world is fast becoming an even more dangerous one. Today’s hackers and scammers are smarter, more creative, and more proficient at getting the information, and oftentimes the money, [...]
Does Your Hazard Mitigation Plan Include the Potential Effects of Climate Change?
Climate change. For years, scientists have studied its causes and effects, some warning of its long-term consequences. Today, climate change remains a hot topic (no pun intended) as emergency managers across the country must contend with its commonly associated [...]
Emergency Operations Planning Kicks Off in Dakota County, MN
Like all counties across “The North Star State,” Dakota County, Minnesota, understands and appreciates the importance of emergency preparedness. As such, it is now working towards the development of a new and improved Emergency Operations Plan (EOP). Just last [...]
Wildfire Risk Continues, New FEMA Aid Now Available
It was around this same time last year when the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) first started talking about its new Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Post Fire funding assistance. As you may recall, it was offered as an [...]