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When emergency management feels abstract and surreal

I manage our regional emergency operations and during the last major incident I realized I was making life-and-death resource allocation decisions based on spreadsheets and phone calls while sitting in a windowless room and I felt like I was playing a video game with real people's lives.

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Making life-and-death calls from a windowless room off spreadsheets makes it feel like a video game with real lives.

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“Where Are You with Public Safety — Emergency Management?”

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