Reply #11: You can maintain what you want

[nadinbrzezinski]

but having worked EMS for ten years I know they are part of life.

Some are highly preventable... some are human made, and some are natural.

You plan for them. You prepare for them. You train for them. And you know that when all is said and done everybody involved learns a lesson... depends on the nature of the disaster what that lesson is.

For example the Mexico City quake led to something that did not exist before. A National Civil Defense infrastructure and confined space rescue teams.

The other option was to keep going as ever and do nothing.

But perhaps having worked a few of them, I realize they happen. And you know what at least the natural kind I can mitigate them, I cannot prevent them. But the man made kind tend to be far worst in the modern era, and lead to changes, massive changes, in the nations affected.