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Disasters Are Space-Time Tricksters Gus Koehler, Ph.D., CEO, Time Structures, Inc. Sacramento, Calif.

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Preplan to Establish Order Existing systems need to be strengthened so that they can expand their existing routines and roles Standard training for all responders to ICS Agreements between multiple agencies to resolve resource sharing and scope of decision making Measureable benchmarks and standards established Supplies and logistics systems identified and tested Communications Time Structures

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Disaster Strategy Involves Cunning in organizing the Response to the Trickery of the Event Timing: first see the overall background timing imposed by the disaster. Applicable timing is results from appreciating the fast and slow timings of critical parts. Cunning and Trickery: To trick someone is to destroy their boundaries. A disaster breaks the boundary of the day-to-day life of the city and of the responders planned strategy Response cunning is responding to emergent opportunities and using the disasters timing to create a new response and a controlled disaster Time Structures

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The structure and Boundaries of The City Are Redefined in Unexpected Ways

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Adjustments to Transportation, Communication, and Information Technologies Social Consequences and Policy Issues Donald G. Janelle Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science University of California, Santa Space-Time Adjustments to Transportation, Communication, and Information Technologies Social Consequences and Policy Issues. Donald G. Janelle Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, University of California, Santa Barbara University of Southern California 6 March 2002 People Move Around the City in Varying Patterns by Time of Day Leading to Different Patterns of Evacuation

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Time Structures

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Disaster Can Move in Space Time Time Structures

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A Moving Disaster On the Sacramento River: Cantara Metam- Sodium Train Spill Time Structures

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Sacramento Metamsodium Cantara Train River Spill Time Structures

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The Trickster Laughs Plan for when space-time events are likely to occur and for their profile (equipment, supplies, personnel); expect disruption Practice on paper and in real time; assume the trained people wont show up Predict when parts will fail; practice for failure Time Structures

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Develop personal trust and confidence in fellows; they will get tired and be replaced by unknowns Combination of anticipatory, bench-marked and tested top down structure with cunningly developed self- organizing and emergent response from the bottom up Knowledgeable, cunning managers and responders with timely access to the right information and resources is the pre-disaster training and organizing goal