In a (US) Embassy, there is something in place called the Warden Cascade System. It's a low-tech solution to help crisis management. Basically it's a pyramid sc

In a (US) Embassy, there is something in place called the Warden Cascade System. It's a low-tech solution to help crisis management. Basically it's a pyramid scheme centered around phone calls. Someone triggers the cascade by calling a few people, and they each call a few people, and so forth; until the message has been conveyed to everyone it needs to be conveyed to. Something like that would be handy in these sorts of situations - pick up the phone and call some offices, it's easier to manage these sorts of outbreaks as though you're dealing with many smaller entities than as one monolithic unit.