Dangers of home fires for wheelchair bound
What seems to be a simple thing to do, get out of the house before the fire gets too bad isn’t so simple. Many fires start and and stay small for some time but crank out all kinds of gases that can force you to lose consciousness before you knew that there was a problem. [...]
Cyber-Shockwave underscored disabled issues during emergency
A war game was played out about a week ago where the United States was attacked through the Internet and the electrical grid crashed causing immeasureable problems across the country. The game was re-broadcast by CNN and it was a chilling realization that not only were the able bodied in big trouble, but the disabled [...]
Caregiving resources on the web
Caregivers have a daunting task of trying to keep the person they are taking care of as safe and healthy as possible while trying to do the same for themselves. Sadly most stop taking care of themselves because there are not enough hours in the day to do everything. Over time they begin to gain [...]
Gov’t plans to get rid of disabled in “emergencies”
State governments are making plans on how to deal with disabled people during emergency situations. New York State has devised a set of triage standards that are to be followed by doctors during times of emergency. Originally public views were to be put into these standards, but that quickly fell by the way side as [...]
Virus outbreak simulated event in N. Florida – Oct 17th
There are very few times where the disabled can help the first helpers on a scene to understand the best way to help those that are in trouble – this is one of them. Pandemic Pandemonium is an exercise for North Florida neighborhood and community leaders. The idea is to use real residents as a [...]
Dealing with long term care
As we deal with normal life issues disabled people normally don’t think about long term care. Most of us probably don’t have a long term disability insurance policy. Each of us is going to have to deal with long term care because we are probably going to need more and more care as we get [...]
Red Cross does not help disabled in South Florida
While in South Florida Spinal Cord Resources had issues with the Red Cross refusing to transfer people in wheelchairs to commodes and to make westcot beds available during emergencies. According to the Department of Justice, anyone who is working for the county during an emergency must follow federal law and this means the ADA. The [...]
The deaf community and emergency responders
SCRN has spent a tremendous amount of time trying to get the disabled on the same standing as those with no disabilities. To be honest we did not get very far because most of the folks in power were not disabled and higher management didn’t care what happened as long as bad press wasn’t generated. [...]
States adding disabled to list of those to help in emergencies
For the first time in California, a disaster drill that was held in Riverside included disabled people. Up to this point, the state assumed that disabled people would either be helped by their caregivers, sent to hospitals or somehow make it out of the area before the disaster overwhelmed state and federal officials. The Riverside [...]
In emergencies, the disabled still forgotten
Spinal Cord Resources Network has been reporting on the total inability of counties, states and federal agencies to help the disabled in times of emergencies for years. After working closely with Florida officials we had made some headway but much work had to be done. We had hoped that other groups working with other states [...]
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