Dominican Republic

By many accounts the world’s first formal emergency call number was implemented in Britain in 1937 after an angry reader wrote to the Times of London complaining that five deaths in a recent fire [...]

Actual jefe del Cuerpo de Bomberos de Guayubín en la provincia de Montecristi, República Dominicana nos cuenta sobre su experiencia en el cuerpo de bombero de esa comunidad.

After the storm always comes the calm and taking advantage of the calm after their response to Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria we took the chance to speak with Reynaldo Ortiz, Executive [...]

Después de la tormenta siempre viene la calma y aprovechando estos días de calma después de los huracánes Irma y Maria nos encontramos sentados con Reynaldo Ortiz, Director General de la [...]

The purpose of this post is to share a few of the biggest and most basic lessons about how to prepare for a hurricane with community response networks before, during and after a hurricane strikes.

El jueves 13 de julio, vivimos nuevamente una escena en la Playa Juan de Bolaño (Monte Cristi), demasiado común a las playas de nuestro país: un bebe de 2 años descuidado de la vista de su madre [...]

On Thursday, July 13, a scene played out on Playa Juan de Bolaño that has been all too common on our country’s beaches for too long: a two-year old baby wandered out of his mother’s sight for a [...]

Un tarde soleada, estaba sentada con mis vecinos en nuestras sillas plásticas tomando un café y tratando de tomar la brisa. Había estado en ese lugar por aproximadamente 6 meses y sentí que había [...]

One sunny afternoon, I was sitting with my neighbors drinking coffee in our plastic chairs trying to catch a breeze. I had been in site for nearly six months and felt that I had a pretty good [...]