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Mercalli Disaster Management Consulting ceased trading in January 2012 as it's Managing Director Steve Glassey is appointed to the newly created role of General Manager Emergency Management at the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development....

Wellington SPCA Animal Rescue Unit founder Steve Glassey along with other international experts in technical animal rescue have been invited to form a new working group to develop new curriculum for Rescue 3's Animal Rescue Technician...

Mercalli Director, Steve Glassey in his other role as a researcher with the Joint Centre for Disaster Researcher was interviewed by Simon Mercep on Morning Report. Steve provided an overview of the USAR programme's success since its...

The Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management espouses families and businesses to "get ready to get through" and recently in Hamilton, that is exactly what the University of Waikato did. Mercalli Disaster Management...

Only two days after teaching Rescue 3 Pacific's inaugural Animal Rescue Technician course, Instructors Steve Glassey and Todd Balogh were deployed to the Christchurch Quake. The massive magnitude 6.3 shallow quake occured on Tuesday...

Rescue 3 Pacific launched it's inaugural Animal Rescue Technician I course this month. The students were all from the newly formed Massey University Veterinary Emergency Response Team (VERT). VERT is a specialist...

When a 7.1 magnitude earthquake occurred in Canterbury on September 4th 2010, the University of Canterbury’s emergency operations centre (EOC) was activated to manage the University’s response, Although the EOC is primarily for...

Mercalli Director was proud to hear how well one of his key clients not only survived, but were praised for their response management to the Canterbury earthquake of 4 September 2010. The 7.1 earthquake has been the most damaging...