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Why proving prevention value challenges emergency managers

My team wants to implement a new early warning system that will cost two million dollars and the city council keeps asking me to prove it will save lives but I cannot give them a number for lives that will not be lost.

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You can't put a number on the disasters you'd prevent, so nobody wants to fund the fix.

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