The PHI Management Solutions team interviewed April Begosh, the owner of Healthy Pets New Hampshire. April specializes in pet first aid and emergency preparedness. Her company conducts training for First Responders and pet owners, and also provides supplies and other services. Although the initial focus of the interview was on pet preparedness, the first segment [...]

Why prepare for the zombie apocalypse? After all, zombies aren’t real…are they?  Leaving that question dangle for a few minutes, the PHI eManagement Solutions think-tank gave the question some serious thought and came up with five reasons why you should prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse. And here they are in descending order: 5.  Because the [...]

Source:  USA today  Wireless carriers and the federal government are launching a system to automatically warn people of dangerous weather and other emergencies via a special type of text messaging to cellphones. The Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) service, which begins this month, is free, and consumers won’t have to sign up. Warnings will be location-based: [...]

Sources Reuters News Service and MSNBC.COM Only three hundred and fifty three days left till the end of everything as we know it. This morning, I was reading the daily news stories for information that may prove or disprove the Mayan Calendar and found information about the string of earthquakes that have struck Youngstown Ohio [...]

source:  RSOE – Emergency and Disaster Information Service A large wild fire is raging Monday in Bulgaria’s Pirin mountain in the municipality of Yakoruda. The blaze started before noon and has already spread on 100 decares of beech forest, according to the Regional Service “Fire Safety and Protection of Population” in Razlog. The location is [...]

Source:  Centers for Disease Control Today’s post is about fire safety. Deaths from household fires remains the leading cause of fatal injuries in the home.  The single best way to protect yourself is to install  smoke detectors in your house.  Second, have an evacuation plan that includes more than one way to escape from each [...]

Source:  RSOE — Emergency and Disaster Information Service The estimated number of homes destroyed in a wind-fueled wildfire more than doubled on Saturday to a total of 32, but Gov. Brian Sandoval said it’s a miracle scores more weren’t lost. A re-evaluation of the 2,000-acre burn on Saturday found much more destruction and damage than [...]