Talk:Public officials, experts discuss lessons learned during West, Texas explosion


 * I attended this webinar (which originated in Austin, Texas.....but I was physically at a regional office elsewhere when I watched it) from 11:07am - 12:32pm local time today. --Bddpaux (talk) 18:46, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

The title of the webinar was: "Best Practices in Local Public Health: The West Explosion"--Bddpaux (talk) 17:28, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * There were 3 people who spoke, all were involved in responding to the event. --Bddpaux (talk) 15:04, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Patterson spoke first, and offered a few comments about the people in surrounding neighborhood(s)......how they literally trickled toward the gathering site.....he went into quite a bit of detail about Ems units showing up and how they triag'd etc. etc. It was funny when he said the part of about this being the first time he didn't have to request other agencies, they just showed up! (You kinda had to be there, but it was funny!) --Bddpaux (talk) 20:22, 15 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Dana Lafayette was a psychotherapist who spoke next. She recounted a number of items, mostly trying to help with the psychological fallout from the event.
 * General notes from her talk: explained that mental health professionals offered assistance following the blast, avoided being too intrusive with citizens.

quote:"We would walk through there and hand them water, along with the information cards and say, 'If you need us, we're here.'" Good quote: "It was interesting to see the amount of resiliency within the community." Also: "We just tried not to be too intrusive."


 * Kelly Craine, Public Information Officer for Waco-McLennan County Public Health District was last. [probably said the least]. Her agency's primary focus: "create some sort of 'safe haven' for victims of the blast." They utilized a local church as a gathering place for people who were displaced [homes in surrounding area were heavily damaged]. I thought it was pretty interesting that she said, "This  after action report is so big, we're still working on ours." ...whenever the topic of AAR's came up. --Bddpaux (talk) 17:34, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Review of revision 2153631 [Not ready]
Yeah, I took a lot of notes but when it came time to transcribe them, I got a bit lazy. I'm going to tighten those up considerably and re-submit. --Bddpaux (talk) 17:27, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * OK....I think that should do it. --Bddpaux (talk) 17:37, 16 November 2013 (UTC)