When the Dust Settles. What Working at Disaster Sites Taught Me

Robert Jensen is called the best at the worst job in the world — he organizes sites of plane crashes, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters with human casualties: extracting bodies, identifying remains, returning personal belongings of the deceased to relatives, finding words of comfort for those driven mad by grief. For Jensen, the darkest newspaper headlines are not just words. He helped identify victims after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, set up a mobile morgue at the Pentagon, and worked at the ruins of the Twin Towers after the September 11 attacks, evacuating helicopter passengers' bodies from the jungles of Peru in 2008. This book is not only a ruthless and intense look at the extremely difficult work that is not often spoken of, but also an inspiring story of survival, perseverance, and compassion.

– The Fukushima-1 Nuclear Power Plant Accident.
– The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
– Hurricane Katrina.
– The 2010 Haiti Earthquake.
– The Swissair Flight 111 Crash, and others.

About the Author
Robert Jensen is the owner and chairman of Kenyon International Emergency Services, a world leader in crisis management and mass disaster response. He has devoted 35 years of his life to responding to the deadliest accidents, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters the world has seen: the September 11 attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2003 Bali bombings, the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad, Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in South Asia, the Haiti earthquake, the Grenfell Tower fire in London, and numerous major aviation disasters.