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The IAEM 68th Annual Conference will be held in Long Beach, California, Nov. 13-18, 2020. IAEM will be seeking proposals for breakout sessions starting on Monday, Jan. 13 through 5:00 p.m. EST, Feb. 14. The theme for this year’s conference is "IAEM 2020: Visioning the Future of Emergency Management." Information on how to submit a breakout proposal can be found on the conference website.
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The IAEM Scholarship Program 2020 Celebrate the New Year Auction will be accepting online bids until 10:00 p.m. EST, Jan. 24. Please bid and tell your friends about the auction to support the IAEM Scholarship Program and help further the education of students studying the field of emergency management, disaster management or a related program. Items open for bid include: Red Roof travel package; challenge coins; jewelry; EM collectibles such as Hurricane Harvey and Irma pins; and more! Bid in the auction or give a donation by visiting www.biddingforgood.com/IAEMScholarshipProgram.
The Globe and Mail
Ottawa’s bills for dealing with natural disasters neared half a billion dollars in two of the past three years amid a warning to Canadians that this country was one of the worst affected by climate change in 2018.
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CNN
The Australian federal government department responsible for managing emergencies shut its Canberra office due to poor air quality on Monday as the nation's capital choked on smoke from deadly bushfires.
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The Conversation
After reporting on the deadly 2011 Queensland flash flood disaster, I spent a year documenting accounts of heroic rescues, tragic deaths and extraordinary survival.
Five years later, I returned for a follow-up study. I found some survivors had recovered, but many were far worse off.
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Everbridge
With severe weather season intensifying, counties and cities across Florida share their perspective on hurricane preparedness and the benefits of leveraging Everbridge as their statewide mass notification platform, including improved situational intelligence, communication, and mutual aid. Watch Now.
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Miami Herald
Australia's government said Monday it was willing to pay “whatever it takes” to help communities recover from deadly wildfires that have ravaged the country.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government was committing an extra 2 billion Australian dollars ($1.4 billion) toward the recovery effort in addition to the tens of millions of dollars that have already been promised.
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The Conversation via Phys.org
Australia is in the midst of inconceivably bad bushfires. The death toll is rising, thousands of buildings have been destroyed and whole communities displaced. This scale is like nothing before, and our national response must be like nothing that has come before.
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Emergency Management
The books are back on the shelves at Red Rock bookstore. A little farther down Ridgecrest Boulevard, the shelves are restocked at the Eastridge Market convenience store. And the cracks in Highway 178 where the Earth's surface split open have been fixed.
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Homeland Security Today
The cybersecurity community from energy to healthcare should prepare for a virtual strike from Iran by taking several technical actions “that will likely have the highest return on investment,” the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a Monday alert.
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E&E News
The Trump administration's latest National Preparedness Report, which describes the greatest threats and hazards to the country, says nothing about climate change, drought or sea-level rise.
The 2019 report is the eighth annual summary of U.S. vulnerability to threats such as disasters and terrorism but the first to eschew the word "climate," except for one reference to "school climate" in a section on preventing school violence.
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The Hill
President Trump’s former pick to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reportedly announced his resignation from the agency Monday, months after Trump withdrew his nomination to lead it.
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Optimum Seismic
California just experienced its deadliest and most destructive wildfire, ever. Nearly 14,000 homes, 530 commercial structures and 4,300 other buildings were destroyed in November when the Cal Fire ravaged the Butte County landscape, incinerating entire communities like the town of Paradise in its wake.
The devastation of lives and livelihoods lost is unfathomable. So too is the sheer scope of work needed to clear the charred debris before recovery can ever start.
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IAEM
Effective Jan. 1, for the fourth consecutive year, FEMA secured $1.33 billion in reinsurance to cover qualifying flood loss under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) ahead of the 2020 hurricane season. This placement complements NFIP’s existing capital markets placements, and it continues FEMA's risk management practice against future catastrophic flood losses. In the 2020 Reinsurance Agreement, 27 reinsurance companies agreed to compensate FEMA for flood losses from qualifying flood events between $4 and $10 billion. FEMA paid a total premium of $205 million for the coverage. For additional information about the 2020 reinsurance placement, visit the FEMA website.
IAEM
FEMA recently updated the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) to give authorities more capabilities when sending Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) to cellular phones and other wireless devices. The update is being done in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission. The updates include Spanish-language capabilities, an increase from 90 to 360 characters per message, and an expanded alert category that allows the public to opt-in to a test message category for state and local officials. The updates also include more accurate geo-targeting capabilities for alerts. The ability to receive alerts on television and radio via the Emergency Alert System is not affected by the WEA upgrade.
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NPR
California has gone through several difficult fire seasons in recent years. Now, some cities are investing in unconventional fire prevention methods, including goats.
Anaheim, a city southeast of Los Angeles, has recently re-upped its contract with the company Environmental Land Management to keep goats grazing on city hillsides nearly year-round.
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The Conversation
Just a few times in a century, somewhere on the globe, a rare “tsunami earthquake” occurs. These are mysterious because, while they’re just medium-sized as earthquakes go, they cause disproportionately large and devastating tsunamis.
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Emergency Management
The 2013 flood that swamped Boulder County is just one of many natural disasters that pushed Colorado into ranking at the top nationally for the rate of increase in natural disasters over the past 40 years, according to a new study culled from Federal Emergency Management Agency data.
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Prevention Web
Bushfires pose serious short- and long-term impacts to public drinking water quality. They can damage water supply infrastructure and water catchments, impeding the treatment processes that normally make our water safe to drink.
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Homeland Security Today
Shortly after the February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and the incident at Great Mills High School in St. Mary’s County, Md., in March 2018, the Maryland General Assembly passed a wide-ranging school safety package that included requiring all public school systems to implement behavioral threat assessment teams.
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IAEM
FEMA’s National Dam Safety Program (NDSP) has released its newest publication — Emergency Operations Planning: Dam Incident Planning Guide. The Dam Incident Planning Guide supports state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency managers in planning for dam incidents and failures by summarizing the concepts that a community should consider when creating dam incident-specific elements of local emergency operations plans. This guide builds on the Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101: Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans. It also provides guidance for dam owners and operators on how to engage with emergency managers prior to an incident to ensure a well-coordinated response. This guide is intended to help community planners create a plan to respond to dam incidents that take place in, or affect, their communities.
IAEM
The basic Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training program has been updated with a revised Disaster Medical Operations section, an updated Terrorism and CERT section, and new hazard-specific annexes. CERT requirements are managed at the local level, and there is no national requirement to retake the training. FEMA encourages all CERT members to review the revised content online. The new curriculum materials will be available online, and copies may be ordered at no cost from the FEMA publications warehouse by visiting the Ready website.
University of Technology, Sydney via Phys.org
Holidaying in a disaster zone might seem crazy, but "volunteer tourism" can actually help communities recover from natural disasters, a new study finds. And it can offer a unique and rewarding experience for volunteers, if done carefully.
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Domestic Preparedness
It is interesting to stop for a moment and think, “How did we get here?” The emergency preparedness and response profession has come a long way, offering emergency preparers, responders, and receivers many more invaluable tools at their disposal than their counterparts had in previous years.
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IAEM
IAEM is launching an updated exam on Jan. 20, 2020. Individuals planning to take the AEM®/CEM® Exam after Jan. 20, 2020, should access the revised study guide from the IAEM website and review the updated resource list to prepare for the exam.
IAEM
IAEM member Edward Gabriel, deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ (DHHS) Office for the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), recently passed away after a brief illness. Prior to his eight years as a senior leader for ASPR, he was director of global crisis management and business continuity at the Disney Company and deputy commissioner for preparedness at the New York City Office of Emergency Management. He served heroically at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, when he was chief of emergency services for the New York City Fire Department. A wake will be held at McLaughlin and Sons Funeral Home, 9620 Third Ave., Brooklyn, New York, on Jan. 9, 2:00-5:00 p.m. and 7:00-9:00 p.m. The funeral mass will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Jan. 10 at Our Lady of
Lebanon Cathedral in Brooklyn Heights. The family has requested that donations be made in Ed’s name to the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. IAEM mourns the loss of Ed Gabriel, and expresses its deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.
IAEM
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) has scheduled a new series of its “Active Shooter Preparedness Workshop” in various locations around the United States. Preparing employees for a potential active shooter incident is an integral component of an organization’s incident response planning. Because active shooter incidents are unpredictable and evolve quickly, preparing for and knowing what to do in an active shooter situation can be the difference between life and death. Every second counts. This is a unique training opportunity, so get details and register online at the location of your choice: Seattle, Washington, Jan. 16, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 6, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Tafuna, American Samoa, Feb. 12, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; and New York, New York, Feb. 12, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
The Guardian
Mudslides and power blackouts have hampered the search for people missing in massive floods in Indonesia’s capital, where more than 60 people have died and some of the tens of thousands of evacuees are living in damp, cramped emergency shelters.
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Japan Times
Landslides and floods triggered by torrential downpours have left at least 60 people dead in and around Indonesia’s capital, and rescuers struggled to search for people apparently buried under tons of mud, officials said Saturday.
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Emergency Management
When Hokkaido native Tatsushi Ueda landed a job at the Shizuoka Prefectural Government nearly 40 years ago, he was given a somber send-off that made him feel like he might never see home again.
It was 1983, a time when Shizuoka Prefecture was still abuzz over a research paper warning about the inevitable Tokai earthquake, or “the Big One.”
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CNN
Australia is being ravaged by the worst wildfires seen in decades, with large swathes of the country devastated since the fire season began in late July.
A total of 24 people have died nationwide, and in the state of New South Wales (NSW) alone, more than 2,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged.
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NPR
Australia's government is offering new help to people who have lost their homes and others affected by bushfires that have burned millions of acres of land. At least 25 people have died in the fires, which have brought historic levels of destruction.
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Newsweek
A series of earthquakes has rocked Puerto Rico with 10 quakes with a magnitude of 4.5 or greater occurring within the last 24 hours, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The most powerful quake, registering a 6.4 on the Richter scale, struck almost five miles south of Indios, Puerto Rico at approximately 3:24 a.m. EST on Tuesday.
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