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IAEM
At least four times a year, the IAEM Bulletin, the official newsletter of IAEM, includes a special focus section on a selected topic of interest to emergency managers. The topics for 2016 were recommended by the IAEM-Global Editorial Work Group and approved by the IAEM-Global Board. The first 2016 special focus issue topic is “How Changing Standards and Certifications Are Impacting Emergency Management.” Articles might include, but are not limited to: NFPA 1600; EMAP; CEM®/AEM® certification program; various ISOs; overview of certifications and their impact on emergency management and continuity of operations; case studies on country-specific standards and their impact; benefits and challenges of EM-related certifications; and benefits and challenges of changing standards. The deadline for article submissions is Feb. 20, 2016; please read the author’s guidelines before submitting your 750-1,500 word article to Karen Thompson, editor. The other three special focus issues will include: “Emerging Technology’s Impact on Emergency Management” (deadline: Apr. 10); “Emergency Management and Whole Community Preparedness” (July 20); and “Today’s Emergency Management: Working in a Complex World” (deadline: Aug. 10). For the other eight 2016 monthly issues of the IAEM Bulletin, the Editorial Work Group will consider article submissions on any topics of interest to emergency management professionals. See the complete schedule and details here.
Kuwait News Agency
Kuwaiti health minister Ali Al-Obaidi said Middle East countries are still required to shore up their response to emergency amid challenges posed by ongoing conflicts in several countries. Addressing the meeting of the World Health Organization executive board held in Geneva in his capacity as chairman of the 62nd session of the WHO Middle East committee, the minister said ongoing regional conflicts are affecting countries inside and outside the region.
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New Kerala
With Pakistan suffering a multitude of natural disasters each year, including floods, earthquakes, droughts, landslides and avalanches, a United Nations development agency is teaming up with state and provincial authorities to shore up the country's agriculture, among the sectors most affected.
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IAEM
The Ministry of State for Emergency Preparedness has announced the release of Prepared and Resilient: A Discussion Paper on the Legislative Framework for Emergency Management in British Columbia. The release of this paper and the concurrent launch of an online consultation website, which commences an important engagement with British Columbians about the current Emergency Program Act, which sets out the key responsibilities and authorities to guide and enable experts at the local and provincial levels in preparing for, responding to and recovering from emergencies and disasters. Emergency management stakeholders are asked to submit their formal responses to the discussion paper to citizenengagement@gov.bc.ca before the consultation period ends on Feb. 19, 2016, at 4:00 p.m. The feedback will be a key component to informing the government’s review of the act and, ultimately, any decision to move forward with the introduction of possible legislative changes. In order to promote the transparency of this review, any submission from your organization or other stakeholders will be posted on the engagement website. Submissions from private citizens will remain private unless made via the online discussion forum on the website.
The Press and Journal
The Ebola epidemic exposed the United Kingdom’s lack of readiness for an infectious disease emergency, a report has revealed.
The “heroic” efforts of health worker volunteers who sometimes risked their own lives to help victims of the disaster, were praised in a report from the science and technology select committee.
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On March 1-3, 2016, a gathering of practitioners and experts from a
diversity of sectors will descend upon New Orleans to engage in
programming that touches on a wide range of topics associated with
resiliency and disaster management. Please consider attending!
Additional information can be found at resconnola.com.
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TV360 Nigeria
The National Emergency Management Agency has urged state governments to establish emergency trust funds to help in managing disasters across the country.
NEMA says the establishment of an emergency trust fund became imperative following the scarcity of defined funding sources and allocation criteria for State Emergency Management Agencies.
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IAEM
The FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Division (ICPD) is planning to conduct focus groups and is currently looking for volunteers to help evaluate materials as part of its America’s PrepareAthon! campaign. The focus groups will last about 60 minutes. Ideal participants are emergency managers as well as private sector points of contact who help coordinate drills and exercises and/or host events designed to better prepare their organizations or businesses for natural disasters. ICPD is looking for emergency preparedness-focused participants from a diverse cross-section (e.g., small non-profits organizations, large corporations, local emergency managers, building managers, and HR representatives) of public and private sector, and non-profit, organizations. ICPD is looking for approximately 200 volunteers. The focus groups will be conducted either on the phone or via webcast, and will not require any travel. If interested, please send your name, affiliation, and contact information to Chelsea Firth by Friday, Jan. 29, 2016.
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IAEM
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is seeking applicants for its Youth Preparedness Council. FEMA’s Youth Preparedness Council was formed in 2012 to bring together leaders from across the country who are interested and engaged in advocating youth preparedness. Council members are selected based on their dedication to public service, their efforts in making a difference in their communities, and their potential to expand their impact as national advocates for youth preparedness. All applications and supporting materials must be received no later than Mar. 1, 2016, 11:59 p.m. PST, in order to be eligible.
Route Fifty
A complex cartographic process that affects flood insurance rates has stirred pushback in places like New York City and New Orleans. When Vlad Ghelase began looking to buy a house in New Orleans about 15 years ago, one of his first steps was to mark the highest areas on an elevation map of the city.
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IAEM
Authors are being solicited for a five-volume series of case studies. The series focuses on expert practice in the field of disaster and emergency management, including the ability to adapt and innovate in the face of changing demands. More information and details on submitting a proposal are here. Jane Kushma, an IAEM member, is the co-editor of the series.
IAEM
Congratulations to Randy Pommenville who was randomly selected from the list of attendees who completed conference evaluations from the IAEM 2015 Annual Conference. Randy wins a complimentary full registration to the IAEM 64th Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia, Oct. 14-19, 2016. An IAEM member from Region 7 since 2008, Randy has attended many past IAEM Annual Conferences. Randy is a risk management officer for the Overland Park Fire Department in Kansas.
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UNISDR via Thomson Reuters Foundation
When the Viceroy of Peru, Jose Antonio Mansa de Velasco, was given orders to rebuild Lima after an earthquake in October 1746, he hired the French mathematician, Louis Godin, to come up with a reconstruction plan.
It was an early example of trying to “Build Back Better” as advocated for by the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction adopted by United Nations member states last year.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Warren County is studying the use of drones for search-and-rescue operations and other emergencies and hopes to partner with Western Kentucky University to learn more about the technology.
“There’s multiple applications for drones,” said Ronnie Pearson, director of Warren County’s Emergency Management Office.
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The Associated Press via ABC News
Forget about selfies. In California, residents are using smartphones and drones to document the coastline's changing face.
Starting this month, The Nature Conservancy is asking tech junkies to capture the flooding and coastal erosion that come with El Niño, a weather pattern that's bringing California its wettest winter in years — and all in the name of science.
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San Jose Mercury-News
The El Nino rains pounding the Bay Area are delivering both a threat and an opportunity to some of the region's most precarious hillsides: After four dry winters, scientists are finally getting a chance to gather information that may improve their ability to predict landslides — a science that has been notoriously imprecise.
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Slate
Security researcher Beau Woods will never forget the day he got a call from the natal intensive care unit. The fetal heart monitors kept rebooting, putting infant lives at risk. The Zotob worm was big that year, and the malware — designed to steal credit card details, but so poorly coded that it caused the devices it affected to repeatedly reboot — had infected many machines at the hospital where he worked. The physicians felt powerless to do anything. Could Woods help?
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TIME
The Federal Aviation Administration says it’s encouraged by the number of people who have registered their drones in a federal database.
Nearly 300,000 owners have registered their small unmanned aircraft in the first 30 days after the FAA introduced an online registration system on Dec. 21, the agency said. Thursday was the last day to register without having to pay a $5 fee.
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IAEM
Are you preparing to start the CEM/AEM certification process? Have you been thinking about taking the CEM/AEM exam? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, you should attend the CEM/AEM Prep Course.
Find out what is covered in the CEM/AEM Prep Course and join us for one of the upcoming CEM/AEM offerings:
- Feb. 24, 2016, Baltimore, Maryland
- Feb. 29, 2016, New Orleans, Louisiana
Interested candidates should register through the IAEM website. IAEM requires a minimum of 10 registrants for the Prep Course. If you have any questions, contact Certification Administrator Jason Majesky.
IAEM
Emergency Medical Services personnel are on the true front lines of humanity, experiencing the needs of people in their homes and communities unlike any other practitioner in the health care system. Emergency managers can make a difference through awareness and education for local EMS to help identify victims of human trafficking and assisting them with resources. In recognition of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month, NASEMSO has initiated a special section on its website dedicated to human trafficking awareness.
IAEM
The Water Research Foundation and the American Water Works Association are conducting a research project, “Innovative Preparedness and Response Practices to Support Water System Resilience,” to identify best emergency management and response practices and procedures in use at drinking water and wastewater utilities. A guidance product then will be developed and distributed broadly, so that utilities can see what practices others may be doing that could be helpful at their own utility. The researchers seek the participation of local emergency management professionals to provide their perspective on how drinking water and wastewater utilities in their jurisdictions plan for and respond to emergencies through completion of the 5-10 minute online survey by Feb. 19, 2016. All answers to survey questions are considered confidential, and will not be shared outside of the research team without your consent. Any questions should be directed to tnoble@horsleywitten.com.
IAEM
The US Health & Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) will demonstrate two of their excellent emergency management planning, and response, and community recovery tools for healthcare emergency managers. emPOWER allows every hospital, first responder, electric company, and community member use its map to find the monthly total of Medicare beneficiaries with electricity-dependent equipment claims at the U.S. state, territory, county, and zip code level and turn on “real-time” NOAA severe weather tracking services to identify areas and populations that may be impacted and at risk for power outages. TRACIE was created to meet the information and technical assistance needs of regional ASPR staff, healthcare coalitions, healthcare entities, healthcare providers, emergency managers, public health practitioners, and others working in disaster medicine, healthcare system preparedness, and public health emergency preparedness. The webinar will be presented by Pamela Shayne Brannman, M.S., M.A. director, ASPR Technical Resources Assistance Center & Information Exchange ASPR TRACIE, and Kristen Finne, senior policy analyst, Division of Health Systems, HHS emPOWER Initiative, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. Register now for this webinar.
IAEM
The FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Division will host a webinar on “Preparing Youth for Disasters,” Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, 3:00-4:00 p.m. EST. The webinar will focus on engaging the public on disaster preparedness and resilience efforts serving youth. Featured speakers will include: Bruce Lockwood, acting captain, Emergency Management Division, East Hartford Fire Department, CT, former commissioner, National Commission on Children and Disasters, and former IAEM-USA President, who will share the background on the unique needs of children in a disaster and the importance of preparedness planning and education; Sarah Thompson, Save the Children, who will share information on Save the Children’s Prep Rally, which helps children learn the basics of emergency preparedness through engaging activities and games and can be formatted to fit your program; Hilary Palotay, American Red Cross, who will share information on the Pillowcase Project, a preparedness education program for children in grades 3–5; and Captain Rob Tosatto, Medical Reserve Corps, and Jane Shovlin, AZHOSA, who will share information on the partnership between Medical Reserve Corps and HOSA and how to engage youth in contributing to school and community preparedness. Register online.
Insurance Journal
The 2016 National Tornado Summit, the 5th annual event, will be held Feb. 29 through March 2 in Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced.
The National Tornado Summit is an educational forum that provides attendees with the knowledge they need to excel in their field.
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Daily Mail
Communities hit by flooding after Christmas have been warned to prepare for further misery as the storm that battered the U.S. arrives in Britain. Forecasters have warned that the possibility of heavy rain on already saturated ground after the wettest December on record means more flooding is likely in many of the areas affected last month.
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The Washington Post
While the snow piled up in the Washington region, the ocean raged on the coast. For three high tides, the storm known as Snowzilla thrust a hurricane-like surge of water into the coast, producing historic flooding.
At Cape May, New Jersey, the water level surged to 8.98 feet Saturday morning — the highest on record there, and major flood state.
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Alaska Dispatch News
When the earthquake started to shake Anchorage early Sunday morning, some hurried into downtown hotel lobbies dressed in their robes and underwear, while others sitting at bars simply held tighter to their drinks. Facebook and Twitter quickly lit up in the early morning hours across Alaska with posts about power outages, racing hearts and barking dogs.
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Daily Express
Dramatic images from the aftermath showed rubble strewn across the street as hundreds of households reeled from the damage caused to their properties.
The earthquake hit about 100 miles southeast of the Spanish coast with a depth of 20 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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Discovery News
Sledders from Capitol Hill to Central Park enjoyed bluebird skies on Sunday after a massive winter storm swept across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. But while the joy on sledding hills across the region was palpable, so too was the cost of the storm.
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MyNorthwest
The tremors are once again on their migration south.
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network reports hundreds of tremors were reported in the Puget Sound region as recently as Sunday. Also known as "slow earthquakes," the tremors are a phenomenon that occur along the Cascadia Subduction Zone every 12-15 months.
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Reuters via Aol.
Severe El Niño-linked drought has destroyed crops, killed farm animals and dried up water sources across East Asia and the Pacific, aid workers said, and UNICEF appealed for $62 million to assist children impacted by various crises in the region.
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USA Today
Some cliff-side residents in Pacifica, California, are being forced to leave their homes as the ground outside their backdoors falls into the sea.
The city declared a state of emergency last week amid concerns that streets and some homes were at risk due to erosion, according to a statement.
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