When a train carrying thousands of gallons of propane gas derailed near here on Sunday, it was not just a local disaster story.
When I'm not working a national disaster, I'm a blood courier as well as a local disaster action-team member.+It's too bad I had to learn what a great leader Bernadine Healy was after she resigned.
Her death has brought New York's tragedy home to this small Arkansas town, one of thousands of intimate connections that have transformed a local disaster into a nationwide trauma.
The IMF and donor countries, including the UK, had advised the government to sell off its grain reserves because they were expensive to maintain; the EU had said only a little food would be needed in the case of a local disaster.
When a local disaster, e.g. earthquake and tsunami, happens in a densely populated area, the surging health care demand leads to the increasing workload in Data Centers (DCs) by storing and delivering a mass of patients' information and real-time physiology signals.
The participants took part in a brainstorming session and designed a local disaster related to a mission: each group had to formulate a plan to rescue a vulnerable group from an area at risk, and lead them to a safe place.
