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In praise of adaptation

Published Thursday, January 01, 2004

My definition of professionalism always has been relatively simple. In my book, a professional is someone who gets the job done, regardless of circumstance. In order to do that, however, one must be able to nimbly adapt to the unexpected. By that measure, Mario Basabe, a mobile radio technologist for the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, is the consummate professional. Basabe, a central figure in senior writer Donny Jackson's exhaustive account of public-safety communications during the recent wildfires that scorched Southern California (“Disaster Recovery,” which begins on page 28), needed to think on his feet and change course ...

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