Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

How to manage a disaster

After a disaster, cities rely heavily on the training of their emergency workers, and the leadership of their managers. Midmorning focuses on the immediate challenges of managing a disaster.

Guests

• Rocco Forte: is the Minneapolis City Coordinator.
• Gary Webb: is a professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University. He studies the governmental response to Hurricane Katrina and creativity among first-responders to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 2001 World Trade Center attacks.

Resources

• About Gary Webb
• City Coordinator's Office