Buffalo deserves a more comprehensive AAR/IP
The CEMIR has had the opportunity to read the report produced by the NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, commissioned by the Mayor of Buffalo, NY – as an after-action report/improvement plan from the catastrophic blizzard which struck that community in December 2022. From what we viewed, there was no clear understanding of what Emergency Management is as a profession and practice.
We invite fellow CEMs® to review in detail the report yourselves:
And then join the CEMIR (on a volunteer basis – we are doing this as well, too) in producing an alternative independent report on the Buffalo Blizzard – but this time, from an Emergency Management perspective.
We welcome input specifically from other CEM®s – if you want to contribute to this (and thank you, by the way), please send any commentary content to me directly at emint@cemir.org by June 30, 2023. We will collect and edit, then host a virtual meeting for review (probably sometime in the 2nd week of July) with those CEM® contributors, and then publish through the Center for Emergency Management Intelligence Research (www.cemir.org). The CEMIR is a think-tank devoted to advocating for the use of Intelligence all the time for Emergency Management - and not just Law-Enforcement Intelligence - but all kinds and types applicable to the full-cycle needs of Emergency Management.
Thank you again,
Michael Prasad
Executive Director
The Center for Emergency Management Intelligence Research.