m cartner: mass casualties and real disasters
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Cartner and Cartner bring some insider information to managing mass disasters.TRANSCRIPT
Mass Casualties and Disasters
Detective Snr Constable Mark Cartner
Dr Michaela Cartner
Lessons Learned using Social Media in Disaster Management
The Spread of Information
THEN
The Spread of Information
NOW
Lessons learned using Social Media in
Disaster Management
Bundaberg Floods: Lessons Learned
Bundaberg Floods: Lessons Learned
#1. A Picture is worth a 1000 words #2. Information is Currency #3. Never be afraid to share information
with the public #4. Misinformation will grow with silence #5. Information must be defensible and
withstand scrutiny
Bargara tornado damage Bargara foreshore
Tornado damage
A Picture is Worth a 1000 words
Lesson #1
Lesson #1 A picture’s worth a 1000 words!
Information is Currency !!!
Lesson #2
Backpackers on dump trucks
Bundaberg gets water police
Use whatever it takes to record information. Improvise.
Oakwood State School evac centre
Agro Trend evacuation centre
The river cut the corner – straight through North Bundaberg
Triage facility
Oakwood School Airport
Lining up for evacuation
Medical supplies arrive
Information is currency.People never tire of knowing what the flood level is.
Never be afraid to share information with the Public!
Lesson #3
Urban Search and Rescue (USAR)
The exclusion zone
One kilometre from the river
One kilometre from the river
Where’s my house?
Queen Street, Bundaberg North
Note the house on the road.
Ding Dong, the witch is dead
Kolan Street, Bundaberg North
Misinformation will grow with
Silence!Lesson #4
Innovative techniques to combat misinformation
Ute bonnet White board Facebook Central command facebook/twitter/smoke
signals Whatever it takes, get information out
there.
Information must be consistent,
legally defensible and withstand
scrutiny. Lesson #5
Time to clean up
Bundaberg Floods: Lessons Learned
#1. A Picture is worth a 1000 words #2. Information is currency #3. Never be afraid to share information
with the public #4. Misinformation will grow with silence #5. Information must be consistent, legally
defensible and withstand scrutiny.
Questions?