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IAEM
It is with profound sadness that IAEM announces the passing of member Doc Lumpkins on Jan. 26, 2019. Doc was the CFO and deputy director of mission support at the Maryland Emergency Management Agency and former director of FEMA’s National Integration Center. He was a founding member of IAEM’s Emerging Technologies Caucus and recently presented an EMVision Talk at the 2018 Annual Conference in Michigan in October 2018. During his time in emergency management he has influenced many and left a hole that will be hard to replace. An article in Homeland Security Today reviews Doc’s career and his contributions to emergency management. A memorial service for Doc Lumpkins will be held today, Jan. 31. The family requests donations to charities of the donor's choice. If your charity of choice is the IAEM Scholarship Program, donations may be made at www.iaem.com/donate. Comments to the family and additional details about his service are available online. IAEM extends condolences to Doc’s family, friends, and colleagues.
IAEM
There are just two weeks left to submit a proposal to be a breakout session speaker at the IAEM 67th Annual Conference & EMEX in Savannah, Georgia, Nov. 15-20, 2019. Prior to submitting a proposal, review the Speaker Guidance and the Conference Committee webinar on “How to Submit a Successful Speaker Proposal.” Submit your proposal via the conference website by Feb. 15, 2019, 5:00 p.m. EST.
IAEM
IAEM-USA is conducting the 12th annual survey seeking information from U.S. local government and tribal emergency management offices about Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) funding. This is a joint effort with the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA). NEMA is using a separate survey for state directors to report on state activities. IAEM and NEMA will write a joint report to be distributed to key policy makers on Capitol Hill and within the Trump Administration. The narrative questions in the survey are of particular importance. Examples of how EMPG was directly related to an emergency response or EM program activity will help IAEM/NEMA “paint the picture” on the importance of EMPG. Please respond online before 6:00 p.m. EST, Feb. 15, 2019.
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Emergency Management
Saying they feel an urgency to act fast, California officials this week will launch the main phase of wildfire debris removal in Butte County, scene of November’s devastating Camp Fire.
But a potential problem has emerged: Nearly half of the property owners in the hill country around Paradise have not given the government permission to enter their properties to do the work.
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Miami Herald
More than three months after Hurricane Michael bludgeoned the beachside communities in the Panhandle, dozens of people crammed into the Messiah Lutheran Church on Thursday.
They were there to address enormous questions that hang over their largely lower-income part of the state.
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Domestic Preparedness
New York City Emergency Management (NYCEM) has designed an internship program specifically tailored for high school students. The agency shares its lessons learned to help other agencies understand why such efforts are important, how the program works, and what steps agencies can take to start their own intern programs.
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Emergency Management
Equipment owned by California's three largest utilities ignited more than 2,000 fires in three years — a timespan in which state regulators cited and fined the companies nine times for electrical safety violations.
How the state regulates utilities is under growing scrutiny following unprecedented wildfires suspected to have been caused by power line issues, blazes that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed dozens of people.
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Homeland Security Today
Earthquakes and tsunamis accounted for the majority of the 10,373 lives lost in disasters last year while extreme weather events accounted for most of 61.7 million people affected by natural hazards, according to analysis of 281 events recorded by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) in its EM-DAT (International Disaster Database).
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IAEM
At least four times a year, the IAEM Bulletin includes a special focus section on a selected topic of interest to emergency managers. The 2019 special focus topics will be announced soon. However, the IAEM Editorial Work Group is seeking 750 to 1,500-word articles now for the other eight issues of this monthly publication, in which articles on a wide variety of topics related to emergency management are included. The work group welcomes article submissions that provide information and insights useful to other EM practitioners, in government and private sectors, who are educated and trained professionals. Appropriate topics include: new research results, unique applications, successful programs, real experiences with disasters and/or exercises, reviews of new publications, and viewpoints on important issues facing emergency management. Please read the author’s guidelines prior to submitting an article to Karen Thompson, editor. Non-members can review a sample copy of the IAEM Bulletin at www.iaem.com/Bulletin. Article submissions are welcome at any time.
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Relief Web
In partnership with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) launched on 24 January an online learning course on the use of the Sendai Framework Monitor.
This free online course is available to all Member States to guide officials on how to prepare and upload national and local data to the Sendai Framework Monitor.
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Phys.org
Deciding when it's safe for a building's residents to move back in after an earthquake is a major challenge and responsibility for civil engineers. Not only do they have to evaluate whether the building could collapse, but also whether it could withstand aftershocks of the same magnitude. The good news is, some promising research is being carried out in this field.
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The Hill
Looking back, 2018 was another remarkable year of billion-dollar disasters. In the last 20 years, climate-related disasters have cost the world $2.25 trillion, a 250 percent increase from the $895 billion spent between 1978 and 1997, and that trend is only looking to increase in the next 20 years.
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Homeland Security Today
The American Public Works Association (APWA) is a professional association of more 30,000 members across the United States and Canada, responsible for “making normal happen” in the communities they serve. While the structures may vary from area to area, all communities have public works at some level.
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In the late spring of 2018, Cape Town South Africa dodged an existential bullet. “Day Zero” — the moment the city’s water taps would be turned off due to punishing drought conditions — was postponed, pushed to an indeterminate date in 2019.
Cape Town’s water scarcity is emblematic of a problem facing almost every major population center: The Earth is getting warmer, and more and more of its human inhabitants are piling into cities, straining aging or underdeveloped infrastructure to the breaking point.
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IAEM
IAEM is offering the following Certification Preparatory Courses and exams:
- Feb. 11, 2019: Reno, Nevada – exam only
- Feb. 19, 2019: St. Louis, Missouri – exam only
- Apr. 16, 2019: Lynnwood, Washington – exam only
- June 21, 2019: Phoenix, Arizona – Preparatory Course & Exam
- Sept. 3, 2019: Louisville, Kentucky – Preparatory Course & Exam
Register through the IAEM website. A minimum of 10 registrants are required for each prep course.
IAEM
The 2017 and 2018 disaster season was catastrophic and the greatest impact was on our most vulnerable population – children. Although children who experience disaster are five times more likely to have serious emotional trauma than adults, as a nation we are behind in implementing programs and standards to protect them. In fact 79% of recommendations made by the National Commission on Children in Disasters in 2010 remain unfulfilled. However, there are innovative ways to address the current gaps in child protection and ensure communities are equipped to protect children. Join us at 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST, Feb. 21, for the next IAEM Thursday Learning Series webinar to understand the unique needs of children, learn best practices from the 2017 and 2018 disaster season, and explore how you can pioneer new programs to protect children and advocate for policies that create lasting change. Learn more about the program, presenters and how to register at www.iaem.com/webinars.
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How prepared will you be when a terror attack strikes?
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is beefing up efforts to prepare the community amid ongoing terror threats, which it calls "the new normal".
The plans, which were announced at the inaugural SGSecure Community Conference on Saturday (Jan 26), include more outreach in areas like suburban malls and private estates as part of SGSecure, a movement that strengthens the community's response during an attack.
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Caribbean Business
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will convene the third meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Action Network on Post-Disaster Recovery in San Juan on Tuesday.
The Clinton-hosted meeting will include more than 500 leaders from business, government, and philanthropy to make commitments to support recovery on Puerto Rico and across the Caribbean region.
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VOA News
Brazil eyes management overhaul for Vale after dam disaster
Brazil's government weighed pushing for a management overhaul at iron ore miner Vale SA on Monday as grief over the hundreds feared killed by a dam burst turned into anger, with prosecutors, politicians and victims' families calling for punishment.
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The Associated Press
Brazilian firefighters and Israeli rescue workers poked sticks into treacherous mud Monday looking for bodies as pressure mounted on the mining company responsible for a dam that burst and spilled a flood of iron ore waste.
By late in the day, the death toll rose to 65, with 279 people still missing, said Lt. Col. Flavio Godinho of the civil defense department in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.
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Africa Times
A wildfire in South Africa threatened a popular tourist landmark on Sunday, as fire crews battled flames hoping to contain the spread before it forced evacuations in neighboring Cape Town communities.
The fire broke out on the slopes of Lion’s Head mountain, a 669-meter peak known as a hiking destination near the coast in the city’s west.
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Peru Reports
Fifteen people have died and at least 32 have been injured in a landslide that collapsed a building where around 100 people were celebrating a wedding, reported El Comercio.
The tragic event took place in the Alhambra hotel, in the province of Abancay, Apurímac at around 00:30 a.m. The hotel is situated close to a slope, and a containing wall had been constructed to protect the building.
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Middle East Monitor
More than 50 homes in Iraq’s southern Najaf province have been swept away by severe flash floods, a local civil-defence official said Monday, Anadolu Agency reports.
“Torrential floods from the Najaf desert — the result of recent heavy rainfall — have swept away more than 50 homes in the village of Al-Rahimiya in the province’s southwest region,” Ihab Sheikli, a local civil-defence official, told Anadolu Agency.
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The Guardian
Hundreds of people remain cut off after a deluge pushed far-north Queensland’s Daintree River to a record level.
The river peaked at close to 12.6 metres on Saturday night, breaking a record that stood for 118 years.
Ferry infrastructure was severely damaged and authorities said the crossing could be out for two days.
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AA
The death toll from torrential rains that triggered landslides and floods on an Indonesian island has climbed to 68, the country's disaster management agency said on Sunday.
At least 47 people were injured and seven others remained missing in disaster-hit Sulawesi Island, according to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the National Disaster Management Agency.
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