“It’s a family business with our name on the vehicle, and it has been since 1947,” he says. “When one of our units is sitting at an incident scene, there’s no one else to point to. That’s the way we want it.” BUILD THE PARTNERSHIP BEFORE THE EMERGENCY In Houston, McCauslin is not only looking for organizations that need vehicles. He wants to meet the broader network that makes response possible. “Honestly, all of them,” he says of emergency- management leaders, municipalities, healthcare organizations, public-safety agencies, contractors and potential partners. “Because in a disaster, all of them end up on the same scene.” That includes companies already serving those organizations through communications, software, medical equipment, financing or grant support. “A mobile unit is only as useful as what’s inside it,” McCauslin says, “and we’d rather build alongside the people our customers already trust.”
For leaders walking the Disasters Expo and Resilient Cities Expo floor, he has a harder question.
For an emergency manager, public-health director, police or fire chief, hospital system or municipality, the answer may expose a vulnerability long before an emergency does. “What happens to your services when your building is out of commission?”
“If you don’t love your answer,” McCauslin says, “let’s talk about putting some of that capacity on wheels.”
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