Joel Yonkman
Founder and Principal Consultant • ERGSS (Emergency Response & Global Security Solutions)
Michigan, United States •
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About
I speak from the command post, not the classroom alone. I have run planning sections on federal disaster deployments, taught ICS to FEMA's own incident management teams and to utilities and corporate leaders, and worked the private-public seam on responses like Deepwater Horizon. Audiences leave with specific questions to ask, conditions to require and steps to exercise, not slogans.
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Signature Programs (1)
Hyperscale data centers are being approved in counties whose fire, EMS and emergency management capacity was built for the town as it was. This talk walks county boards, emergency managers and fire and EMS chiefs through what these campuses bring (utility-scale electrical hazards, battery rooms that can reignite hours after a fire appears out, diesel storage, construction workforces larger than the host town), where local capability typically falls short, and five conditions to write into approval before the vote: hazard disclosure, joint pre-incident plans, site-specific training, staged exercises, and updated county plans. Drawn from federal incident management experience as a FEMA IMAT Planning Section Chief.
Audience
County officials, emergency managers, fire and EMS chiefs, utility and data center operators
Duration
45 to 90 minutes; half-day workshop available
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