When disaster strikes, there’s one thing you can rely on. One of the first casualties is going to be our national system of Emergency Services. Many people mistakenly assume that in the event of a disaster (whether natural or financial), a nation like the United States, with its vast, high quality infrastructure, will be able to weather the stormrelatively easier than almost anywhere else on earth, but the reality is quite different.
If you look at recent regional disasters from Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, to Super Storm Sandy in the Northeast, what you find is a pattern of glaring weakness. If we compare either of these two
examples to a full blown, national disaster, they’re really quite small. In fact, both of them combined… both of them happening at the same time would still be fairly small when compared next to a nationwide disaster, and yet, look at what happened.
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Emergency Services – The First Casualty
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