Disaster Management Expert Discusses Rescue Efforts In Flori

Disaster Management Expert Discusses Rescue Efforts In Florida


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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:
We're joined now by a guest who knows firsthand why this rescue and recovery effort and the investigations are so painstakingly slow. Robert Jensen is a disaster management expert who dealt with the aftermath of 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Grenfell Tower fire in the United Kingdom among many other mass casualty events. Welcome to WEEKEND EDITION.
ROBERT JENSEN: Thank you.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: First, your reaction to this collapse - is there a precedent for something like this in the United States?
JENSEN: Yeah. There's unfortunately not many new disasters, and it has happened before. There's - I'm really afraid this will be probably the largest nonintentional collapse of a building. The last big nonintentional collapse was the walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City in April 1981 that killed 114 people. I don't know what the final number will be because, of course, they're still doing rescue, and they haven't really started recovery.

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