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The Call for Speakers for the IAEM 65th Annual Conference & EMEX in Long Beach, California, Nov. 10-15, 2017, will close on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Apply today to be a speaker. Read the Speaker Guidance and view the Conference Committee webinar for insider tips on a successful speaker submission.
Rappler
The Phillipines government will scrap its flagship disaster management initiative, the Department of Science and Technology's Project NOAH or Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards, starting March due to "lack of funds" for the program.
This was confirmed by Project NOAH Executive Director Mahar Lagmay to Rappler on Sunday, Jan. 29. Lagmay said the program will only run until Feb. 28 since there are no more funds for it.
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The Associated Press via Press of Atlantic City
Indonesia's tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of funding. Now Indonesian and U.S. scientists say they've developed a way to dispense with the expensive buoys and possibly add crucial extra minutes of warning for vulnerable coastal cities.
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CNN Philippines
Project NOAH Executive Director Dr. Mahar Lagmay strongly believes human resources are more important than technology when it comes to assessing disaster risks in various parts of the country.
He made this statement amid reports that state weather bureau PAGASA will take over the technologies developed by the team behind Project NOAH (Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazard).
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The Canadian Press via CTV News
Manitobans are being warned that major flooding is possible in much of the province this spring.
Forecasters say a combination of high soil moisture levels and lots of snow could cause moderate to major flooding.
Infrastructure Minister Blaine Pedersen said the severity of any flooding will partly depend on how much rain and snow falls in the coming months, as well as the timing and rate of the spring thaw.
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Caribbean News Now
National security and international relations specialist Dr Mutryce A. Williams, a native of St. Kitts and Nevis, who resides on St. Croix, USVI, has been appointed to the International Association of Emergency Managers — Latin America and Caribbean Leadership Council (IAEM-LAC). She was appointed Special Counsel for the Caribbean Area.
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RNZ
Fiji's Disaster Management Office says there is a need to improve its communication and coordination of its response to disasters.
The permanent secretary for disaster management, Meleti Bainimarama, says the office has tried to act on lessons learned from Cyclone Winston, which caused widespread destruction 11 months ago.
Bainimarama told Fiji TV that a lot of line agencies were operating on their own, and that communication during disaster periods was patchy.
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Natural Hazards Center
Disasters are expensive, and each year the price tag goes up. Last year, insurer payouts for natural disaster claims worldwide nearly doubled to $50 billion. The United States has averaged more than $27 billion a year in disaster assistance obligations over a 10-year period, and the National Flood Insurance Program is in debt to the tune of about $23 billion.
There's got to be a better way, right? That's the question the Federal Emergency Management agency is asking.
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FEMA
FEMA recently provided an update on the status of the Center for Domestic Preparedness's (CDP) suspension of biological and chemical training at the Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF). "There is no higher priority than the health and safety of our employees and those we train. Currently senior agency officials are deployed to CDP to conduct an internal assessment of CDP operations, verifying and cataloging procedures to determine if enhancements should be made to maintain high standards that will reinforce a safety culture. The team is cataloging all recommendations from reviews and audits since 2008, and tracking the status of their implementation. The assessment team estimates that this review will go through March. FEMA will not resume training at the COBRATF until the assessment is complete. The CDP is notifying students, who are registered for training in the COBRATF for February and March, that they will receive the modified training that does not include live agents. Students can contact their CDP Regional Coordinator using the contact information at https://cdp.dhs.gov/contact, to discuss questions they may have about their specific class, or visit the CDP webpage for up to date information."
Government Security News
The Aspen Institute Homeland Security Group is pleased to endorse nine areas critical to the continued improvement of the Department of Homeland Security making further progress toward securing the homeland against ever evolving threats. These initiatives were enacted under former Secretary Jeh Johnson's tenure in the Department. Additionally, the group formally recommends that the Trump administration and secretary John Kelly continue these initiatives.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is accepting applications from individuals interested in serving on the National Advisory Council (NAC). The NAC is a federal advisory committee established to ensure effective and ongoing coordination of federal preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation for natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters. The council includes a geographically diverse mix of officials, emergency managers, and emergency response providers from state, local and tribal governments, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations who will advise the FEMA Administrator on all aspects of emergency management. Learn online about the discipline areas that FEMA is seeking for open positions, and submit applications by close of business on Mar. 15, 2017. All appointments are for three-year terms starting in September 2017.
IAEM
Visit the IAEM Store at www.iaemstore.com to browse the "New for 2017" tab and see the all new items that now are available for purchase. These include lightweight but durable polo shirts for men and women in charcoal, tan, white, red, maroon, dark navy, and black. There also is a new mesh zip polo shirt for women in royal blue, true navy, treetop green, rich red, grey, and black. A mesh polo shirt for men is available in rich red, true navy, royal blue, grey, and black. Long-sleeve polo shirts for men have been added to the store in eight colors, as well as Port Authority active soft-shell jackets for both men (five colors) and women (six colors). These items can be customized with the CEM®, AEM® or IAEM logos and your name or title. There are many other clothing items, bags, accessories and headwear in the IAEM Store, as well as special order items such as lapel pins, patches, ribbons, graduation stoles, AEM®/CEM® plaques, and medallions. Enjoy a great online shopping experience at the IAEM Store.
IAEM
Feature articles are requested by the IAEM Editorial Work Group on the subject of "Making Practical Applications out of Emergency Management Research." Articles might include, but are not limited to: communications and messaging; social science research developed recently or being done currently; using research results to develop practical applications that engage the whole community; and research on preparedness for people who are disabled or who have other access or functional needs. Article deadline is Feb. 10, 2017. Please email your 750-1,500-word article to Editor Karen Thompson. For details on writing articles for the IAEM Bulletin, read the author's guidelines.
Phys.org
Researchers of the Mathematics Research Centre and the UAB have developed a mathematical law to explain the size distribution of earthquakes, even in the cases of large-scale earthquakes such as those which occurred in Sumatra (2004) and in Japan (2011).
The probability of an earthquake occurring exponentially decreases as its magnitude value increases.
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Emergency Management
The script seems distressingly familiar: A disaster — a hurricane, a flood, a tornado, an earthquake — causes billions of dollars in damage. After arguments about fairness and federal responsibility, the federal government comes up with money to help the affected communities recover.
"When huge amounts of infrastructure get wrecked, the only place that can pay for it is the feds — but increasingly, the feds are swamped," said Claire Rubin, an independent researcher and consultant with a focus on emergency management.
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The Hill
In December, the president signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. Each year, the NDAA authorizes activities at the Department of Defense and for other national defense programs. Tucked among the nearly 1,000 pages of this year's bill is a critical provision that implements a major recommendation of the bipartisan Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense: the development of a strategy and implementation plan for national biodefense.
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EDM Digest
With new technology comes a variety of applications that can have tremendous benefits to organizations, society — and, of course, the way we handle emergency management. Technology gives emergency management a new way of handling the given crisis, and perhaps, a new perspective for how to use resources a bit more effectively. Drones have been in the news a lot lately with some of the policies that have come about about their uses in the federal government.
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The Huffington Post
In December 2015, Chennai in Tamil Nadu, eastern India, was hit by a bad storm. Many areas in the city were flooded and many people stranded. To cope with the situation, some Twitter users started a hashtag called #ChennaiRains and began disseminating information and directing help to areas where it was needed the most.
People also started creating websites and making spreadsheets to help convey helpful information to others.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Dec. 7 announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Program to Prepare Communities for Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks (CCTA Program). The program will provide $35.94 million to local, state, tribal, and territorial jurisdictions for improving their ability to prepare for, prevent, and respond to complex, coordinated terrorist attacks in collaboration with the whole community. The application deadline is Feb. 10, 2017. For program details, see the FEMA website and Grants.gov. Available documents include CCTA NOFO, CCTA FAQs, and CCTA Fact Sheet. Questions should be directed to FEMA’s Intergovernmental Affairs Division at (202) 646-3444 or at FEMA-IGA@fema.dhs.gov.
IAEM
FEMA released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2016 provides $345 million for the SAFER Grant Program for the department to assist fire departments and volunteer interest organizations to increase the number of trained, "front line" firefighters available in their communities. SAFER grants provide financial assistance to help fire departments increase frontline firefighters. SAFER offers grants to support activities in two categories — hiring of firefighters and recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters. The authority for SAFER is derived from the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974, as amended (15 U.S.C. §2229a et seq.). The notice of funding opportunity document provides applicants with the details of the requirements, processing, and evaluation of an application for financial assistance for both of these activity areas. The NOFO and technical assistance documents for this program are available at www.grants.gov, and at http://www.fema.gov/staffing-adequate-fire-emergency-response-grants. The application period will close on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, at 5:00 p.m. EST.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute (EMI) Virtual Tabletop Exercise (VTTX) has scheduled six sessions of a hurricane scenario for March and April 2017. The four-hour exercise is scheduled for 12:00-4:00 p.m. ET on Mar. 21, 22, and 23, and on Apr. 11, 12, and 13. The application deadlines are Feb. 21 for the March offerings and Mar. 14 for the April offerings. Content is the same each day, and participants would attend only one session. The exercise will help communities prepare for the upcoming hurricane season using historical events and recovery actions. The design of the VTTX is for a group of 10 or more representatives from state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency communities of practice and is intended to provide an opportunity for responders across the nation to simultaneously participate in a hazard-specific facilitated discussion. To participate, email Doug Kahn at douglas.kahn@fema.dhs.gov or call 301-447-7645. Also, send a courtesy copy email to the Integrated Emergency Management Branch at fema-emi-iemb@fema.dhs.gov or call 301-447-1381. Additional information is available online.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will hold two webinars on the recently released Tribal Declarations Pilot Guidance. The webinars will take place on Feb. 2 and 27, 2017, 3:00-4:00 p.m. EST. This event will provide a forum to answer questions about the declarations process for tribal nations. The pilot guidance describes the process that tribal governments will use to request Stafford Act declarations and the criteria that FEMA will use to evaluate direct tribal declaration requests and make recommendations to the President. Click here to participate via the web, and sign-in as a guest. To participate via phone, please call 1-800-320-4330, and use the passcode 265976# to connect. Those who call in will hear audio only and will not be able to the slide deck presentation. Any questions should be directed to FEMA's Intergovernmental Affairs Division at (202) 646-3444 or FEMA-IGA@fema.dhs.gov.
The Associated Press via Firefighter Nation
Flames from more than 100 raging wildfires in Chile continued spreading from the mountains to the Pacific coast, destroying forests, livestock and entire towns in a destructive path that is now dangerously close to the city of Concepcion.
Authorities said they found a body Friday, raising the overall death toll to 11. About 118 fires remain active and 53 of those are contained.
Officials were hopeful that light rains and lower temperatures would provide some relief.
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National Geographic
Perhaps even more intense than a sharknado, a fire tornado was filmed recently in the midwest region of Western Australia.
The whirling storm extended more than 3,000 feet into the air.
This "gob-smacking vision of an incredible natural phenomenon" was made on a camera mounted on a Department of Parks and Wildlife fire truck at Watheroo.
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Global Times
At least 22 people were killed and scores others injured in separate rain-related accidents in Pakistan over four days, local Urdu media and officials said.
The country's southwestern Balochistan Province was the worst hit area as 17 people were killed and 18 others injured in separate incidents of rain and snowfall, said the Provincial Disaster Management Authority of Balochistan.
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Anadolu Post
Floods triggered by torrential rains forced thousands of people to flee their homes on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, an official said.
National Disaster Management Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told Anadolu Agency that overnight rains had resulted in flooding in three cities of North Sulawesi province.
"The long heavy rains in the region of North Sulawesi have caused flooding in some areas such as Manado City, North Gorontalo District and Bitung City," he said.
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Time
The worst forest fire in Chile's recent history has ravaged an entire town, destroying buildings, farms and livestock.
The fire that ripped through Santa Olga — the largest of several affected communities in Central Chile's Maule region — destroyed more than 1,000 buildings, the Guardian reports. Aerial footage showed block after block reduced to smoldering rubble.
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