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IAEM
The Call for Speakers for the IAEM 66th Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Oct. 19-24, 2018, will open on Monday, Jan. 15, and close on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. EST. Download the IAEM Speaker Guidance for all the requirements.
Voice of America
Mount Merapi is near a major city. It's on the nation's wealthiest and most populous island, Java, and there is a high concentration of scientists and policy experts in the university town. But it's also unique in its combination of grassroots and high-level efforts, from a large volunteer search and rescue squad to a hereditary spiritual guardian who works hand-in-hand with government officials.
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IAEM
In this special New Year’s Eve 2017 episode of the Emergency Preparedness in Canada (EPIC) podcast, we put down the champagne long enough to remember some of the major disasters, incidents, and emergency management notables of 2017, and make some wild assumptions about what might be coming up for us in 2018.
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NPR
Mexico has an earthquake early warning system that gives people time to take cover. But that system didn't work when a 7.1 magnitude quake struck Mexico City, killing hundreds of people.
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Asia Insurance Review
The number of storm and flood insurance claims in New Zealand has risen by 56% over the last three years, pushing up the cost of claims to insurers by 70%, according to Ms Jo Mason, chief executive of NZbrokers which is New Zealand's largest insurance broking collective.
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University of Buffalo
A University at Buffalo engineering professor co-authored a report with potential significant impacts on how modern cities may be reconstructed following earthquakes.
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RadioWorld
The head of the Federal Communications Commission has proposed a series of improvements to the nation’s Wireless Emergency Alert system that are designed to better target alerts to specific geographic areas.
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IAEM
The National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) Standards Council, which recently voted to develop a standard for emergency preparedness and response to active shoot events, is seeking public comments by Feb. 23, 2018. The provisional standard is designated as NFPA 3000, Standard for Preparedness and Response to Active Shooter and/or Hostile Events. The fact sheet and NFPA 3000 decision can be accessed from the NFPA 3000 web page. To review the preliminary standard and submit online comments, click on “Submit Public Input Online.” You will be asked to log in or set up a profile, and then you will be routed to the provisional standard and the link for posting online comments. For more information or to discuss this issue, contact John Walsh or Dennis Jones, who represent IAEM on the committee.
Government Technology
North Bay lawmakers have introduced a bill to bolster the ability of emergency officials to contact residents who may be in harm’s way — a topic that has been scrutinized since last year’s devastating wildfires. The legislation, introduced by multiple lawmakers, including state Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, would create uniform statewide emergency notification protocols. It also would require all counties to develop and adopt guidelines for using Wireless Emergency Alerts, a federally administered system that can send Amber Alert-style messages to cell phones in a disaster area.
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Route Fifty
California’s rainy season last year may have replenished reservoirs in most parts of the state after a long, crippling drought, but the precipitation largely bypassed an area northwest of Los Angeles, in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Santa Barbara is now in its seventh year of drought and there are worries that similar conditions will return elsewhere in the Golden State.
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Governing
The specter of Oso 2014 can't help but loom in the thoughts of those dealing with the potential slide here at Rattlesnake Ridge. Most of them work in the fruit industry here -- picking apples in the orchards, pruning the trees, packing in the warehouses.
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IAEM
The Public Health Emergency website (PHE), hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, is being redesigned. You are requested to provide feedback on the proposed top-level navigation of the site, to help ensure that it is useful for you, your colleagues, and the United States in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from the health effects of disasters. There are five basic questions in the online survey that should take only about five minutes to answer. Please respond by Friday, Jan. 12, 2018.
IAEM
First responders across the nation now have a wireless broadband network to call their own. With all 50 states, two U.S. territories and Washington, D.C., joining FirstNet, public safety has a groundbreaking new choice for their communications that will help them save lives and protect their communities. FirstNet is the creation of the nation’s public safety community, who spent years advocating for their own wireless broadband network following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to enhance communications during emergencies and other events. Congress passed legislation to establish the network in 2012, and for the past five years, the First Responder Network Authority worked closely with public safety to develop customized plans for building the network in each state and territory. See press release.
The Washington Post
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria combined with devastating Western wildfires and other natural catastrophes to make 2017 the most expensive year on record for disasters in the United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Monday. The disasters caused $306 billion in total damage in 2017, with 16 events that caused more than $1 billion in damage each. The bulk of the damage, at $265 billion, came from hurricanes.
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IAEM
FEMA on Jan. 8 announced that private nonprofit houses of worship are eligible for disaster assistance as community centers without regard to their secular or religious nature. These changes are effective for disasters declared on or after Aug. 23, 2017 and for applications for assistance that were pending with FEMA as of Aug. 23, 2017, including applications on first- or second-level appeal, that as of today have not yet been resolved by FEMA. As with other non-critical PNPs under the Stafford Act, FEMA financial assistance for the repair or replacement of a PNP house of worship facility is limited to costs that a loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) will not cover. PNP houses of worship must apply to the SBA for a loan, as required by the Stafford Act. FEMA will provide financial assistance if the PNP house of worship is denied a loan or if the loan authorized is insufficient to cover repair costs. This change will be reflected in the third edition of the Public Assistance Program Policy Guide, which will be available online.
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Domestic Preparedness
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) announced that the Center will resume using nerve agents and biologicals in some of its hazardous materials training courses on Jan. 11.
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IAEM
The National Association of Government Communicators is accepting speaker applications for its 2018 Communications School to be held June 19-21, 2018, in Fort Myers, Florida. Speaker applications are sought for half-day workshops, plenary sessions, and 60-minute breakout session presentations. NAGC is seeking speakers from all levels of government: local, special district, state, federal, and tribal, as well as from the private sector. Topics of interest include: crisis communications, case studies, internal communications, social media, communications planning, speech writing, branding and marketing, and others. Learn more.
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IAEM
A call for papers has been issued for the First Sustainability and Resilience Conference, “Mitigating Disaster and Emergency Planning,” which will be held May 13-14, 2017, at the University of Bahrain (UOB). The Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at the UOB, under the patronage of His Excellency Prof. Ryadh Hamzah, UOB president, is organizing this annual conference. The concept of “Sustainability and Resilience” in itself is not new worldwide, yet still new to the Middle East region in general, and to the Gulf states in particular. The conference will be conducted in collaboration with Northumbria University in the United Kingdom, and other worldwide leading universities. Research abstracts should be submitted no later than Feb. 4, 2018. All abstracts will be subject to blind review by editorial committees. Authors will be contacted by Mar. 12, 2018, regarding the final decision of the blind review. Download the call for papers flyer for complete details.
IAEM
Enter your product(s) in the National Association of Government Communicators’ (NAGC) 2018 Blue Pencil & Gold Screen Awards Competition. This annual international awards program recognizes superior government communication products and those who produce them. There are more than 40 award categories. The entry deadline is Jan. 19, 2018.
Emergency Management
In a public-private partnership, FEMA and the Smithsonian Institution developed the Heritage Emergency National Task Force, which includes 58 federal and national service agencies and is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The task force is co-chaired by FEMA and the Smithsonian, while the chair lies in the Cultural Rescue Initiative.
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University of Minnesota
Armed with 1940s-vintage flu vaccine technology and supported by only anemic funding for developing truly revolutionary vaccines, the world is woefully unprepared for the next influenza pandemic, and the Trump administration is ignoring the problem, two experts wrote in a New York Times op-ed piece yesterday.
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FedTech
Cloud infrastructure has helped the emergency management agency deliver services more efficiently.
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IAEM
In November 2017, the Certification Executive Committee approved a simplified memorandum of understanding to recognize interested academic institutions that value the IAEM Certification program. If you are interested in becoming a partner, contact Kate McClimans for further details.
FlaglerLive.com
Jonathan Lord has begun his tenure as the sixth man to take over leadership of Flagler County Emergency Management in 12 years. Lord, 43, had for more than two years been deputy director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, overseeing the statewide response to Hurricanes Hermine, Matthew and Irma firsthand.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Jan. 8 announced that the annual funding opportunity for the Fiscal Year 2017 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG) is now open, and the application period will close on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, 5:00 p.m. EST. The Fiscal Year 2017 AFG program will award $310.5 million to enhance the safety of the public and firefighters against fire-related deaths and hazards. Since 2002, FEMA has awarded $7.1 billion in fire grants. Historically, 84% of awards go toward purchasing personal protective equipment, vehicles and other operational equipment. Applicant tools will be available at www.grants.gov and on the FEMA website. The Get Ready Guide also may be useful for potential applicants. For fire departments/applicants requiring assistance please visit www.fema.gov/grants, or contact the AFG Help Desk at firegrants@fema.gov or 1-866-274-0960.
IAEM
Doctoral student from Northcentral University, Debra Shiflett-Picardi, seeks volunteers to participate in her research study as she works to complete her Ph.D. in Business Administration in Homeland Security, Leadership and Policy. The study is “Inter-agency Collaborative Governance in Emergency Management: A Qualitative Case Study.” The research questions being explored are: 1) How are collaborative governance standards applied to interagency relationship building to improve collaboration and support the DHS emergency management mission and objectives? 2) Why do failures of collaboration occur in interagency collaboration efforts? 3) What are the participant’s perceptions on collaborative governance as it applies to emergency management? Participation would include a 30-45-minute interview by phone, responses by email, or submission of an audio file. Participation would be confidential and details will be provided to demonstrate how identity will be secured throughout the process. Those who are interested should email D.Shiflett0491@email.ncu.edu and put “Research Participant” in the subject line.
IAEM
Join the Stimson Center and the International Institute of Global Resilience (IIGR) for a public seminar on the U.S. and Japan’s unique opportunities for cooperation and collaboration in future emergencies. Please RSVP online to attend the seminar, which will be held on Jan. 16, 2018, 3:00-4:30 p.m. at the Stimson Center. The event will be livestreamed here. Speakers will include: Honorable Masako Mori, House of Councilors, National Diet, representing Fukushima Prefecture; Ellis M. Stanley, chair, Global Board of International Association of Emergency Managers; Honorable W. Craig Fugate, former administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Maki Fukami, co-founder and president, International Institute of Global Resilience; and Yuki Tatsumi (moderator), director and senior associate, Japan Program, Stimson Center.
Scroll
At least 29 people died and over 83,000 were affected after a cyclone hit eastern Madagascar over the weekend, authorities said on Monday. Twenty-two people were reported missing, according to AFP.
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Los Angeles Times
At least 13 people were killed Tuesday when a rainstorm sent mud and debris coursing through Montecito neighborhoods and left rescue crews to scramble through clogged roadways and downed trees to search for victims.
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BBC
Thousands of tourists have been left stranded after heavy snow in the Alps cut off towns and villages across Switzerland, France and Italy.
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CTV News
Work crews fanned out across the region Friday to deal with the mess left behind by hurricane-force winds, flooded coastal roads and downed power lines that left more than 280,000 utility customers in the dark -- most of them in Nova Scotia, the province that endured the strongest winds.
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Voice of America
A remote island volcano in Papua New Guinea has begun spewing ash into the air, forcing the evacuation of more than 500 residents, media and nonprofit groups said.
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Xinhua
Snow has killed 21 people in central and eastern China since Jan. 2, according to the China National Commission for Disaster Reduction. More than 3,700 people have been relocated and 14,000 are in need of emergency assistance, said the commission, noting that over 700 houses had collapsed and nearly 2,800 were damaged.
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Times of India
An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter Scale hit the Myanmar-India (Manipur) Border Region on Sunday afternoon. It occurred in the Myanmar-India (Manipur) Border Region at a latitude of 24.7 N and longitude of 94.7 E, a unit of the Ministry of Earth Sciences said.
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RadioFreeEurope
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake jolted Iran's western province of Kermanshah on January 6, injuring at least 21 people, state television reports. The semiofficial ISNA news agency said the Kurdish town of Sarpol-e Zahab, about 520 kilometers west of Tehran, was near the epicenter of the quake.
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New York Post
One man was found dead on a Bronx sidewalk early Saturday and another was found “frozen” in his car in Queens — the first casualties of the city’s brutal cold snap, which meteorologists forecast would give way to a veritable heat wave next week.
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teleSUR
Floods and mudslides have claimed the lives of almost four dozen people in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, according to local authorities.
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IFL Science
While the East Coast of America finally recovers from a record-breaking cold-snap, Australia is baking in deadly temperatures a hemisphere away. Over the weekend, large areas of the Oceanic continent experienced dangerously high heat conditions. Wildfires, spread by hot dry winds, burned out of control in the State of New South Wales.
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