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When emergency management decisions lead to fatalities

I am the emergency manager for our county and I made the call not to evacuate ahead of the storm because the models showed it tracking east, but it shifted and we lost three people and now I cannot stop thinking about whether I killed them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You made the best call you could and people died, and you can't stop blaming yourself.

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