UC Irvine offers emergency planning course

Published 14 February 2007

University extension offers a series of lectures and tabletop exercises in disaster management; Irvine’s emergency management coordinator to provide instruction

Readers living in the Los Angeles area take note: The University of California at Irvine Extension is now offering a course in responding to all-hazard disasters. Good thing, as California has been hit in the past ten years by approximately thirty-two natural catastrophes with damages totaling $19.43 billion, and in each case — the East Bay fire, the Northridge earthquake, and the Loma Prieta earthquake — preparation or lack thereof made a fundamental difference. “Public agencies and companies that are prepared with a thorough and well-rounded emergency management and disaster recovery plan will experience a much higher rate of recovery after a disaster,” said course instructor and emergency management coordinator for the city of Irvine Eileen Salmon. “Our course will provide participants with relevant lessons learned from some of the more recent and highly publicized disasters.”

In addition to Salmon’s instruction, course participants will enjoy guest lectures from industry leaders, participate in hands-on table top exercises, and visit an emergency operations center. The course is just one in a UC Irvine Extension series in emergency management and disaster recovery.

-read more in this university news release