Description
Chaos and Ash records one consultant's views from the inside of some of the largest critical incidents over the past twenty-five years--many front page headliners, that stand out in the nation's memory.
From 1987 to 2012 Kendall Johnson served as traumatic stress consultant to emergency service agencies and the military. He has driven into remote locations in both wildland and urban emergencies, convoyed through fire lines, has been airlifted into disasters, and was honored to deal with some of our countries finest firefighters, law enforcement officers, and incident managers in their most trying hours.
It is within the extremes of life experience that important lessons can be learned, that character comes to the fore, and that human nature--for better and for worse--is most clearly revealed. The stories in this book are, in reality, nothing more than the stories of this particular author, within the incidents that he, fortunately or not, stumbled himself into.
About the Author
Kendall Johnson, former firefighter with military experience, served as traumatic stress consultant-often in the field-specializing in Incident Command System Class I & II commands. Initially working with individual and small team line personnel, His responsibilities evolved to provide consultation to field commanders and their operational teams, and, when necessary, provide intervention in order to maintain team effectiveness in the midst of incidents that had turned traumatic. He has lectured in fire houses, hospitals, emergency service institutes, conferences, government training facilities, universities, here and abroad. He trained others in the principles he developed. Dr. Johnson was Adjunct Faculty member at the California State Training Institute (Governor's Office of Emergency Services), served on the Faculty of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, and was Associate Professor in the Master's Degree program in Emergency Services Management at California State University, Long Beach. He has authored a number of professional papers, seven books in the treatment of traumatic stress, school crisis management, and recovery. Recently Dr. Johnson retired from teaching to pursue painting, photography, and writing. In that capacity he has written five literary books of artwork and poetry, and one in art history.
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