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IAEM
The IAEM Conference Committee is hosting a free webinar on “Tips for a Successful Speaker Proposal” on tomorrow, Jan. 17, at 1:00 p.m. EST. The webinar will cover the requirements for a successful breakout proposal; review changes in the process since 2019; provide insider tips from the review committee; review a tutorial of the new speaker submission portal; and provide ample opportunities for participants to participate in a question-and-answer session. Register today to join the webinar. The IAEM 68th Annual Conference will be held in Long Beach, California, Nov. 13-18, 2020. Visit the event website for more information.
IAEM
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.
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CBC
Ontario's Provincial Nuclear Emergency Response Plan, a 200-page document, dictates instructions to every municipality that has a nuclear facility within their jurisdiction.
It was last revised in 2017. Each of the five nuclear facilities located in and around Ontario also have their own plans.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Recently, the 14 million residents of Ontario were awaken by emergency messages sent to their phones, alerting them to an “incident” at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. An hour later, the province’s government sent another message, telling residents that the it was a false alarm – the result of a poorly executed training drill.
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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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Homeland Security News Wire
You might think that Australia is particularly vulnerable to forest fires. But that would be a mistake. Many other countries share the same conditions that have set Australia ablaze, physically and politically, including similar terrain and a leadership that has yet to wake up fully to the new reality that climate change is creating.
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The London Economic
The tragic Australian wildfires that are now billowing smoke as far afield as South America have led to a death toll of at least 27 in a crisis that has destroyed over 2,000 homes.
The crisis has brought accusations that Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s conservative government needs to take more action to counter climate change, which experts say has worsened the blazes.
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Homeland Security News Wire
An Australian fire expert says her analyses of bushlands around Sydney in the final months of 2019 indicated that the landscape was primed for these catastrophic fires — but it was series of other conditions, all happening concurrently, that ultimately led to the disaster.
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Homeland Security Today
The Senate voted 81-8 to confirm Deputy Administrator Peter Gaynor to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Gaynor has served as the acting administrator of FEMA since March 9, the day after Brock Long left the agency.
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NACo
The elderly are particularly vulnerable to disasters given the increased likelihood of having physical or mental health conditions or being socially isolated due to a lack of a support network. After Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, the 2013 Colorado floods and other disasters, older adults accounted for more than half of all disaster-related fatalities.
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IAEM
BC Management welcomes survey participants in its 18th Edition Business & Continuity Management Compensation Study. The online study includes two choices based on employment status, one for permanently employed or unemployed professionals and one for independent contractors/consultants. Participants will receive a complimentary report, which will be published in April 2020. Deadline for participation is Feb. 25, 2020, 11:00 p.m. EST. For more information, watch an informational video on LinkedIn.
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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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NOAA
NOAA is kicking off a year-long celebration to mark its upcoming 50th anniversary. Since its inception on Oct. 3, 1970, NOAA has become one of the world’s premier science agencies that protects life and property, leads stewardship of the ocean and Great Lakes, and drives the blue economy — a mission that spans from the surface of the sun to the floor of the ocean. Throughout the year, visit www.noaa.gov/noaa-50th-home to find features, events, multimedia, and NOAA milestones as it celebrates five decades of science, service, and stewardship.
Reuters
A climate research organization will offer access to a risk model that predicts the probability of flooding for homes across the United States, giving the public a look at the data institutional investors use to gauge risk.
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Indian Country Today
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe is continuing to develop initiatives that enhance and protect the overall health and safety of the Akwesasne community. The most recent measure implemented on Jan. 1, 2020 saw the expansion and re-designation of the Emergency Planning Office to the Office of Emergency Management and Safety.
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FEMA
This month, FEMA launched the "Resolve to be Ready" campaign. The campaign is a reminder that disasters can strike at any time and that the beginning of a new year is the perfect time to ensure you, your family and neighbors are prepared before future disasters or emergencies occur. For more information and actionable tips to help prepare you and your family for any emergency in the new year, visit the Ready website.
The Conversation
The unprecedented wildfire raging across Australia is not only destroying human lives, but has killed hundreds of millions of animals – perhaps billions before it is all over.
Burning is not the only cause of death in this catastrophe.
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Homeland Security News Wire
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences recommends ways to make supply chains — the systems that provide populations with critical goods and services, such as food and water, gasoline, and pharmaceuticals and medical supplies – more resilient in the face of hurricanes and other disasters, drawing upon lessons learned from the 2017 hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.
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Homeland Security Today
In light of the Australian fires, scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA), Met Office Hadley Centre, University of Exeter, Imperial College London, and CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, have conducted a Rapid Response Review of 57 peer-reviewed papers published since the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report in 2013.
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Homeland Security Today
Disaster response has dominated headlines for years, and technologies to enhance disaster response capabilities are rapidly emerging. Now, a new global dialogue is centering on resilience—how we not only come together to help communities quickly recover, and even thrive, post-disaster, but how we strengthen their defenses against future threats.
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Government Technology
The shooting that killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October 2018 was the closest such incident in proximity to Ohio, but recognition that houses of worship all over have become soft targets prompted the Ohio Emergency Management Agency (EMA) to develop a toolkit to help places of worship prepare for such a scenario.
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Quartz
While the impact of natural disasters is felt hardest in the local communities where they strike, the trauma shared globally between people who survive these events also highlights the fact that these global catastrophes need a global response. One that can match the scale of the problem and empower relief organizations to meet the challenge head on.
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Homeland Security News Wire
New digital tools will enable land managers to better adapt to the new reality of large wildfires through analytics that guide planning and suppression across jurisdictional boundaries that fires typically don’t adhere to.
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IAEM
The 2020 certification review dates are published on the IAEM website. Individuals interested in receiving their diploma at the IAEM Annual Conference on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2020, in Long Beach, California, must have their initial credential application approved no later than the September 2020 online review (application submission deadline is Aug. 31, 2020) and must pass the exam by Oct. 20, 2020.
NHC
The Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder will hold a 30-minute demonstration webinar featuring the recently released CONVERGE Disaster Mental Health Training Module on Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. EST. Learn more online and register today.
PreventionWeb
Indonesia started 2020 with flood waters inundating parts of the capital Jakarta and surrounding areas, killing at least 67 people and displacing 300,000. This is something that Jakarta and other coastal cities may face more frequently in the coming years.
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Reuters
Nearly 40,000 people have been evacuated from near a Philippine volcano that could erupt violently at any moment, authorities said, but thousands more are refusing to leave or have already drifted back.
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CNN
Ten years ago a massive earthquake struck Haiti, transforming capital city Port-au-Prince into a nightmare in seconds. Some 70,000 people would be buried within a week's time. Hundreds of thousands more would follow them to the grave.
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Latino USA
A former emergency management director told the Associated Press that emergency protocols were not followed after signs of the first earthquakes, raising concerns about the country’s disaster preparedness after Hurricane María.
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Reuters
A severe cold snap killed at least 17 people in Afghanistan, government officials said, as heavy snowfall and rain continued to lash parts of the country.
Afghanistan is no stranger to extreme winter weather, during which various warring groups in the country have historically ceased hostilities, but this year has been particularly harsh, according to the country's metrological department.
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BBC
At least 62 people have been killed and more are missing after avalanches and landslides hit Pakistan-administered Kashmir over three days.
The region's Neelum Valley was particularly hard hit, with many people left cut off from help.
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USA Today
A two-day pounding of severe weather across portions of the southern U.S. and into the Midwest left 11 people dead, prompting two governors to declare states of emergency as tornadoes, heavy rainfall and high winds ravaged the region.
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NPR
The Philippines remained on alert as authorities declared a "calamity zone" around Taal Volcano, which began spewing ash and lava over the weekend. They warned of indications that it could be on the cusp of a new, more powerful eruption.
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