Head of Preparedness for a Category 1 responder. PhD from Swansea University about tear gas and memory. Gardening, BSB and Ospreys fan always. No poker face.

London, England
Joined March 2011
I do challenge the advice about stockpiling Sauvignon blanc. Surely better to stockpile a red - because if the power goes down, the white would be room temperature, which would be simply ghastly.
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The state still has obligations here. The water and power companies still have obligations here. It can appear they are shifting the burden of response on to public and we fight that as emergency planners every day
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BREAKING: Police officer investigated for using AI in investigation trib.al/Rx0iR33 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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What a creative way to celebrate cybersecurity awareness month
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Denmark’s IKEA stores are preparing to serve as emergency shelters and temporary hospitals during crises, with plans to use display beds for accommodation, restaurants for food and generators for backup power reut.rs/4icdarZ
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They really gave us one mysterious little life on a planet covered in flowers and then invented performance reviews.
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Today on X, following the incident at RAF Fairford
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Ha! You're absolutely right. There *is* a 737 waiting to take off on Runway 19. 🛫 I probably shouldn't have cleared AA5404 to land there. 😳 I'm here if you need any tips and tricks for handling mass casualty incidents. 🚒🚑✨
FAA to Deploy A.I. Air Traffic System at DC-Area Airports Starting Monday
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Sir a THIRD Section dispersal order for Millwall vs West Ham just hit the TL
A Section 60 order has been authorised for today’s fixture of @MillwallFC vs @WestHam. This gives police enhanced powers to stop and search people and vehicles without the usual requirement of reasonable suspicion. This will cover the area shown on the map and will run until 20:00hrs on Saturday, 19 September. You can expect to see additional officers in the area too, providing visible reassurance and working with partners to keep ticket holders and the wider public safe.
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I need train companies to stop pretending they have wifi - you don’t! that’s okay, just stop acting like it’s a possibility
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on a scale from "maybe we'll hold off on that road trip for now" to "yeah I reckon the backyard is big enough for a horse", how bad is this fuel crisis going to be
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🇫🇷 Investigators suspect that a train derailment in northwest France which injured 44, one gravely, was the result of sabotage, a police source told AFP on Saturday. ➡️ u.afp.com/SjAy
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There was no question that it would be the name of our WhatsApp emergency management community. People helping people. 💛
In response to 9/11, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon diverting 255 American flights to Canada to which citizens voluntarily housed thousands of Americans.
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Emergency Alert reflections: 1/ if sending in Welsh first to every phone in Wales, make sure the translation is simultaneous or immediately following — that was a long 4 minutes of only knowing what “tân” meant…
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3/ I don’t know the detail of the decision-making but I hope there was some consideration to how it would land with people on public transport in particular, especially after two derailments in two days which could lead to unnecessary alarm to be the instantaneous reaction
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Finally 4/ personally the timing was… sub-optimal. Ten alerts received on four phones in our house during the peak of the bedtime routine?! Baby E wasn’t a fan 😩
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