EP83 Volunteer Turns Chaos Into Clarity With A Community Crisis Website

About this episode

Victor Tran discusses his experience creating a crisis website during a chemical incident in Orange County.

Send us Fan Mail Fifty thousand people evacuate, rumors fly, and the search for the latest information becomes frantic. During the Memorial Day weekend chemical incident in Orange County, California, residents in Garden Grove and Anaheim needed more than breaking news; they needed clear, trusted, practical directions they could use immediately. Enter Victor Tran, a 27-year-old web designer and software engineer who voluntarily created a crisis website to aggregate emergency information and up...

People in this episode

Host: Tom

Guest: Victor Tran

Topics covered

• crisis management
• community response
• emergency information
• web design
• volunteerism

Keywords

• crisis website
• emergency information
• volunteer
• community support
• web design

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Orange County, California, Garden Grove, Anaheim

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