Publications

Emergency Alerts in the Age of Complexity: Are Dumbphones Left Behind? (6/2/2025)
DAFN Observations from the LA Wildfires (2/11/2025)
FEMA Pulls Disability Material from Ready.gov (2/4/2025)
Stair/Evacuation Chairs & Their Critical Role in EM (11/26/2024)
Centers for Independent Living and their Role in Emergency Management (7/23/2024)
Asking Instead of Telling (3/1/2024)
The Maui Wildfire: Analyzing the Power-Grid Catch-22 (8/15/2023)

The Lone Pine Earthquake of 1872: Lessons on the Importance of Sustained Earthquake Monitoring (3/12/2025)
School House Storm: Lessons from the Vireton Tornado of 1917 (1/2/2025)
Takeoff Horror: Lessons from Farrell’s Ice cream Parlor Disaster of 1972 (9/20/2024)
Appalachian Twister: Lessons from the Shinnston Tornado (6/19/2024)
Fiesta’s Terror: Lessons from the San Antonio Battle of Flowers Parade Mass Shooting (4/2/2024)
Invisible Time Bomb: Lessons from the 1985 Ross Store Explosion (3/13/2024)
Explosive Reliance: Lessons from the Thiokol Woodbine Disaste (1/30/2024)
Silent Killer: Lessons from the North American Ice Storm of 2007 (1/8/2024)
Debris Flow Suprise: Lessons from the KOA and Saint Sophia Christmas Day Disasters (12/18/2023)
Undertrained and Understaffed: Lessons front he Golden Age Nursing Home Fire (11/22/2023)
Fatal Expectations: Lessons from the George Prince Ferry Disaster (10/18/2023)
“Never Forget”: Remembering an Earlier 9/11 (9/1/2023)
Judging the Past: Lessons from the Mann Gulch Fire (8/2/2023)
Heat Wave Communication Challenges: Lessons from the Chicago Heat Wave of 1995 (7/5/2023)
Understanding the Custer Creek Catastrophe (6/17/2023)

NBC News: The families of L.A. wildfire victims confront the failures that prevented escape https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/los-angeles-california-wildfires-victims-no-escape-rcna191087
LA Times: Elderly, disabled were left stranded during L.A. fires as evacuation plans broke down https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-29/la-me-la-county-emergency-planning-disabled