Well this is my first blog...not bad for a 30+ year member of the Law Enforcement community. Strange how the roads I've taken brought me to this time and place. The Y2K -AKA Millennium started it all. Emergency response planning/ICS/Unified Command/Joint Helicopter Operations between PD & FD. Then 911 happens, San Francisco sells the helicopters off to raise funds-penny-wise and pound foolish. They will pay for that when the quake hits.

So why a blog about NIMS/ICS for Public Safety? Simple. Emergency response and planning is just not a PD/FD/PH thing......It's all of us playing in the same sandbox. We have to train, plan, work and recover together if we are going to earn our keep.

This blog is for everyone, paid professionals to good citizen volunteers. Public employees - private business (big - medium and small) Profit makers - Not for Profits and Non-profits.

This is your blog. I hope to hear your thoughts of how we will rise together BEFORE we need to.