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IAEM
IAEM-USA is conducting its 11th annual survey on Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) funding. IAEM needs your survey input and urges sharing with other local and tribal emergency managers. Through the years, IAEM has helped educate Members of Congress on the importance of EM programming at the local level and the role funding, particularly EMPG funding, plays in building and maintaining these programs. Your response to this survey by 6:00 p.m. EST, Jan. 26, 2018, will help IAEM continue this work.
The Times of India
More than 22 countries have confirmed participation in a two-day international meet India is hosting along with the United Nations from Monday to build a global coalition for development of disaster resilient infrastructure on the lines of the Solar Alliance of 120 countries.
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IAEM
The Call for Speakers for the IAEM 66th Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Oct. 19-24, 2018, opened on Monday, Jan. 15. It will close on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. EST. The conference theme is “Opportunities and Innovations in Emergency Management.” Download the IAEM Speaker Guidance for all requirements. Questions should be directed to IAEM Program Manager Julie Husk.
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SunStar
The Department of Education-Central Visayas has partnered with SEEDS Asia, a non-profit organization based in Japan, to educate teachers and students in Cebu province on the importance of disaster management.
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IAEM
IAEM-Canada is pleased to announce that its inaugural IAEM-Canada Conference will be held May 5-8, 2018, in Calgary, Alberta. The conference will include: IAEM-Canada’s Annual General Meeting; AEM®/CEM® examination; EMAP training; keynote speakers; and workshops. More details will be released soon. IAEM-Canada committees and board members are working diligently to make this an amazing experience for everyone.
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IAEM
The IAEM Store has added the IAEM-Canada logo as an option to add to logowear and other promotional items. Browse the store and select an item of interest. During the purchase process, customers may choose the IAEM-Canada logo for products selected. The IAEM Store offers a wide variety of items, including: outerwear, polos, woven shirts, and activewear for men and women; youth apparel; headwear; bags in all shapes and sizes; and accessories. Enjoy a great online shopping experience at the IAEM Store.
The Globe and Mail
The scenes last year of widespread flooding in Quebec, the Ottawa region and then the "500-year flood" in Houston were stark reminders of the risks — and massive human and physical costs — of these natural disasters. Up to 10 percent of Canadians live in high-risk flood zones.
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CBC News
Corner Brook, Newfoundland, has lifted its state of emergency, while emergency crews continue to assess and repair damage on Newfoundland's west coast from Saturday's flooding.
Heavy rain and rapid snowmelt caused by unseasonably warm temperatures caused serious flooding, mudslides, road washouts isolating communities — and millions of dollars of damage.
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The Local
The mayor of Livorno in northwestern Italy has said he is being investigated for complicity in culpable homicide over a flood which killed eight people in the Tuscan city last September.
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Jamaica Observer
The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has launched its National Disaster Risk Management Volunteer Programme, designed to strengthen community and parish level stakeholder response to catastrophes.
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Times Colonist
Imagine a child’s jigsaw puzzle, about 20 large pieces. Take five and put them back in the box. Put the puzzle together. Look at it. This is Christchurch from the air today, seven years after the earthquake.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently released the Tribal Mitigation Plan Review Guide, which will update and supersede the current guidance issues in 2010. Both the current as well as the newly revised Guides are available online. To phase in the implementation, the new Guide becomes effective later this year on Dec. 5, 2018. FEMA engaged tribal governments throughout the development of the Guide, including tribal consultations in 2016 and 2017. FEMA will provide additional information to tribal governments through national and regional webinars. The first webinar is scheduled for Jan. 23. 2018, at 4:00 p.m. EST. To join the webinar, go to Adobe Connect. For audio dial-in, call 1-800-320-4330, and use participation code 905506.
Route Fifty
Hawaiians awoke to a startling message on Saturday morning.
A mobile phone alert went out to residents of the U.S. state after
8 a.m. local time that falsely warned a missile attack was imminent. “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” the alert read, based on screenshots posted to social media.
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Emergency Management
Hawaii leaders are taking heat from the highest level for the colossal blunder that resulted in 38 minutes of terror for residents, who thought that a missile was headed for the islands.
Residents and tourists spent a terrifying Saturday morning thinking that an attack was imminent all because a state employee in a Diamond Head bunker clicked his mouse twice.
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IAEM
FEMA’s National Integration Center is seeking public feedback for an update of the state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) National Incident Management System (NIMS) Implementation Objectives for SLTT organizations and jurisdictions. The national engagement period opened on Jan. 16, 2018, and will conclude on Feb. 5, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. EDT. National engagement provides an opportunity for interested parties to comment on the draft implementation objectives, to ensure that they are relevant for all implementing partners. FEMA most recently revised the NIMS Implementation Objectives in 2009 and is now updating them to ensure they are consistent with the Third Edition of NIMS, to incorporate stakeholder input, and to make them a more useful tool for organizations as they implement NIMS. FEMA will host three webinars to discuss the proposed SLTT NIMS Implementation Objectives and answer related questions. For more information on the webinars and to review the draft objectives, visit the FEMA website. To provide comments on the draft, complete the feedback form and submit it to FEMA-NIMS@fema.dhs.gov.
Lake County News
Congressmen Mike Thompson and Tom Rooney on Friday formally established the new Congressional Natural Disaster Caucus.
“Over the last year, several natural disasters have torn through communities across the country. Unfortunately, we know none of these disasters will be the last,” said Rep. Thompson.
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Emergency Management
On Jan. 5 of the new year, emergency managers sent a letter to the FCC requesting, among other things, to allow a more precise targeting of alerts during a potential disaster and to accomplish via device-based geo-targeting and to do it before May 2019.
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CNN
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has postponed a planned session on preparing for a nuclear disaster.
The session was to take place Tuesday at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta and was supposed to stream live to anyone wishing to watch.
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IAEM
The EMS Agenda 2050 project team requests feedback from the public, the emergency medical services (EMS) community, and partners in health and public safety on the second version of its Straw Man document, which laid out a proposed vision and guiding principles for the future of EMS. Over the past several months, this important input has been collected from regional public meetings, at conference sessions and via the project website. The EMS Agenda 2050 Technical Expert Panel read and discussed the feedback and developed a second version of the Straw Man for public review and comment. Additionally, this draft includes vivid scenarios and stories to help stakeholders visualize what the future of EMS may look like three decades from now. Download the new version of the EMS Agenda 2050 Straw Man, and provide feedback here, or register for a webinar discussion on Jan. 24, 2018, 12:00 p.m. (noon) EST to contribute to EMS Agenda 2050. IAEM member John Walsh represents IAEM on this project. Members may send comments or questions directly to Mr. Walsh.
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.
Los Angeles Times
Huge earthquakes are not significantly influenced by the moon, a new study says.
The study, conducted by U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough, looked at earthquakes of magnitude 8 or greater over the past four centuries. And a review of more than 200 earthquakes demonstrated that there is no connection between the phase of the moon and the time when huge seismic events of magnitude 8 and greater strike.
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The Conversation
Scenic hill slopes can be inspiring — or deadly, as we are seeing after the disastrous debris flows that have ravaged the community of Montecito, California in the wake of heavy rains on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. At least 20 people are dead, and four remain missing. More than a hundred buildings have been destroyed or damaged by moving walls of mud and boulders that rumbled down creeks and canyons into houses and roads.
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EDM Digest
When a major storm rolls into an area, there are often numerous citizens who believe the storm will be dangerous. Then there’s the second camp — the more dangerous camp — who may not believe the storm will be all that intense and do not effectively prepare themselves for the storm.
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IAEM
In 2018, resolve to earn the AEM® or CEM® credential from IAEM. Get started by planning to take a Prep Course or scheduling your examination. Registration is open now for the following Prep Course and Exam offerings, with others to be listed soon. A minimum of 10 registrants is required for the course to proceed. Interested candidates may register on the IAEM website. The Prep Course fee is $495. There is an additional fee to take the Exam ($395 for IAEM Members; $595 for non-IAEM members).
- Apr 22 – Prep Course & Exam at the IAEM-USA Region 4 Training Summit and Expo in Nashville, Tennessee
- June 14 – Prep Course & Exam at the Emergency Management Leaders Conference in Tampa, Florida
- July 9 – Prep Course & Exam at the National Homeland Security Conference in New York, New York
IAEM
Today the National Information Sharing Consortium (NISC) will host a webinar with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate First Responders Group and the Defence Research and Development Canada’s Centre for Security Science to discuss the November 2017 Canada-U.S. Enhanced Resiliency Experience (CAUSE V). The webinar will take place today at 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST, and you can still register online and attend. The webinar will provide an overview of the experiment's objectives and scenario, and continuing education units (CEUs) will be awarded for those interested. The CAUSE V webinar is the fifth webinar in the NISC's Mission-Focused Job Aids Webinar Series that reviews tools, techniques, and standard operating procedures that NISC partners in the homeland security, emergency management, public safety, first responder, and healthcare preparedness communities use to facilitate and manage information sharing. For more information about the webinar series and the NISC, visit the NISC website.
Newsmax
The Mayon volcano in the Philippines unleashed burning mud and rocks on Sunday and on Monday the government forced evacuation of people from municipalities near the restive volcano and a volcanologist warned of a possible hazardous eruption "within weeks or even within days."
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Xinhuanet
A total of 16 people were killed in the tail-end of a cold front affecting the Philippines recently, a government official said on Tuesday.
Parts of the Philippines have been experiencing cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms since Wednesday due to the tail end of a cold front which caused floods and landslides.
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DD News
Local authorities said homes made of adobe collapsed in coastal areas most directly affected by the quake, which struck in the Pacific, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from the seaside town of Acari in the region of Arequipa, according to the US Geological Survey. "There are two fatalities in the region of Arequipa and so far 65 injured have been reported," General Jorge Chavez, head of the National Civil Defence Institute, said.
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Reuters
The death toll from a cyclone that hit Madagascar about 10 days ago has risen to 51, with another 22 people reported missing, authorities said on Sunday. Tropical Cyclone Ava passed through Madagascar on Jan. 5-6, hitting mostly the eastern coast of the island with wind speeds of between 140-190 kph (87-119 mph).
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CNN
At least 77 people were injured in Jakarta Monday when an internal walkway inside the Indonesian Stock Exchange collapsed suddenly, causing widespread damage to the building's main lobby area.
CCTV footage circulated online captures the precise moment the mezzanine walkway gives way, sending at least a dozen people crashing into the lobby area below.
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Daily Mail
A Frenchman was woken up by a ferocious storm in Saint Jean Pla de Corts in southern France, and looked out the window to see a tornado beginning to form.
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Channel News Asia
About 1,500 people are being evacuated from an island off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) after a nearby volcano erupted, the local Red Cross said on Sunday.
A volcano on the island of Kadovar, located about 24 km (15 miles) north of the Papuan mainland, began erupting on Jan. 5.
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The Associated Press via ABC News
The number of single-family homes determined to have been destroyed by mudslides in Montecito, California, has risen to 115.
That's nearly double from estimates last week.
The multi-agency incident management team also said Tuesday that the number of houses damaged has been lowered to 242.
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