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IAEM
IAEM, as part of a FEMA Whole Community Contract, launched a survey to understand the current mindset of emergency managers and organizations with regard to spontaneous volunteers. If you or your organization has had any prior experience with spontaneous volunteers, anticipate encounters during future emergencies, or have taken steps to plan for managing spontaneous volunteers, we need your input. Please participate in this survey by Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. EST. Participating in this survey is a great opportunity for your voice to be heard in what will be a very influential conversation that may guide the development of resources, tools and tactics to help communities work with spontaneous volunteers more effectively. IAEM appreciates your help as we engage in conversation. If you have any questions regarding the survey, please contact Project Manager Chelsea Firth.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
A congressman who hails from the so-called ground zero of Supertyphoon Yolanda, Tacloban City, is batting for the creation of a disaster mitigation office that would be equivalent to the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States.
Rep. Martin Romualdez, who is running for senator, said, “We need to seriously consider retooling and upgrading” the national disaster risk reduction and management council and create an agency similar to FEMA.
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Christian Science Monitor
Europe plans to launch the first part of a new space data highway that will pave the way for faster than ever monitoring of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.
The EDRS-A node is the first building block of the European Data Relay Satellite, a "big data" highway costing nearly $545 million that will harness new laser-based communications technology.
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IAEM
The deadline for those interested in participating in the FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Division (ICPD) focus group has been extended to Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. FEMA ICPD is looking for volunteers to help evaluate materials as part of its America’s PrepareAthon! campaign. 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. These focus groups will last about 60 minutes and will be accessible to individuals with disabilities and others with access and functional needs. 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, Feb. 5, 2016.
The Associated Press via The Washington Post
President Barack Obama has ordered all new or renovated federal buildings to be equipped with the latest protections against earthquakes.
Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday creating a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard. The White House says the standard will improve federal buildings’ resilience to earthquakes, making them safer and lowering the costs for recovering from a quake.
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GeekWire
A public-private campaign to improve America’s resilience to future earthquakes, like the “really big one” that’s expected to hit the Pacific Northwest someday, received a multimillion-dollar boost today.
The new initiatives are aimed at minimizing the multibillion-dollar impact of large-scale seismic shocks: They range from a White House drive to upgrade federal facilities throughout the country, to a $100,000 grant from Puget Sound Energy Foundation to install seismometers throughout Washington state.
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Stay safe with the Gorman-Redlich CRW-S NOAA Weather Radio receiver, which includes SAME decoding and interfaces with digital signage, emergency lighting, PA systems and more. MORE
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Nextgov
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Jan. 31 defended the past accomplishments and future potential of a counterhack tool that was criticized in a recent congressional audit.
The $6 billion firewall, dubbed EINSTEIN, was created in 2003 to detect and thwart nation-state intruders who target federal computer systems. But a Government Accountability Office report released to the public revealed the scanning technology is not meeting its stated goals.
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The Standard
El Niño threatens the health of some 60 million people worldwide, mostly in high-risk developing countries, according to the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization.
WHO Emergency Risk Management and Humanitarian Response Department director Richard Brennan said the health implications of phenomenon are usually more intense in developing countries with less capacity to reduce the consequences of such emergencies.
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BBC News
Experts are worried that the virus is spreading far and fast, with devastating consequences.
The infection has been linked to cases of microcephaly, in which babies are born with underdeveloped brains.
The World Health Organization alert puts Zika in the same category of concern as Ebola.
It means research and aid will be fast-tracked to tackle the infection.
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IAEM
If you missed the IAEM Conference Committee’s webinar on “Tips for a Successful Speaker Proposal,” you can watch the recording here. The webinar included a discussion of the speaker requirements, the breakout focus areas, and what is considered an effective presentation, as well as answers to frequently asked questions from the attendees. For those interested in submitting a proposal to speak at the IAEM 64th Annual Conference, Savannah, Georgia, Oct. 14-19, 2016, don’t miss this opportunity to learn more. The IAEM Annual Conference speaker proposal deadline is Feb. 19, 2016, 5:00 p.m. EST.
POLITICO
Amid an election cycle dominated by fear of global terrorism threatening Americans at home, mayors of dozens of cities across the United States told Politico they feel a growing apprehension about attacks on their citizens — and a mounting anxiety that they do not have the resources to prepare for it. With attacks in Chattanooga, San Bernardino and Philadelphia fresh in their minds, the concerns of mayors from Honolulu to New Orleans, Syracuse to Los Angeles show that the American anxiety about security extends well beyond hot rhetoric of the GOP debate stage and has hit home in the country's largely Democratic City Halls.
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Government Executive
There is a saying repeated often in the U.S. Army: “Where you stand is where you sit.” It means, in essence, that your perspective depends on the position you occupy in an organization.
When 19th century general Braxton Bragg was serving simultaneously as a company commander and company quartermaster — the officer tasked with approving requisitions — he famously wrote a memo in his commander role requesting resources, then wrote a memo as quartermaster refusing that order.
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Inside Climate News
Climate change — and the extreme weather associated with it — is changing the way U.S. emergency response organizations operate, from how they spend their money to where they preposition resources, a panel of military, emergency and climate science experts said Monday.
"We pay a lot of money to have our military prepared to do something we really don't want them to have to do: Go to war," said Joseph Nimmich, deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Alaska Dispatch News
Five decades after the nation’s most powerful earthquake hit Alaska, scientists have pinpointed the underwater slide that triggered some of the deadliest tsunami waves produced by the shaking.
Using modern technology to map the floor of Prince William Sound, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and other organizations have found the landslide behind the tsunamis that killed about a third of the people in the Alutiiq village of Chenega, the service said.
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Scientific American
A new NASA organization dedicated to protecting Earth from dangerous asteroids has hit the ground running.
In early January, NASA announced the establishment of a Planetary Defense Coordination Office, which will synchronize U.S. efforts to deal with threatening near-Earth objects and will supervise all NASA-funded projects to find and characterize asteroids and comets that visit Earth's neighborhood.
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IAEM
Are you preparing for CEM and/or AEM certification? IAEM has three upcoming CEM/AEM Prep Courses:
- Feb. 24, 2016, Baltimore, Maryland
- Feb. 29, 2016, New Orleans, Louisiana
- April 3, 2016, San Antonio, Texas
Learn what is covered in the CEM/AEM course and register online. IAEM requires a minimum of 10 registrants for each course. If you have questions, contact CEM Administrator Jason Majesky.
WMBF-TV
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has created grant opportunities under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, a program to help communities implement hazard mitigation measures following a presidential major disaster declaration.
The 75/25 cost share program comes as a result of the federal disaster declaration and flooding event that impacted Horry County in early October 2015.
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ABC Online
Emergency services have given residents in Western Australia's Pilbara region the all-clear in relation to Cyclone Stan, but flood warnings are in place until at least Monday. The former cyclone crossed the coast east of Pardoo early on Sunday and is moving south-east at 24 kilometers an hour, dumping heavy rain and bringing wind gusts of up to 90 kilometers per hour.
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Manoramaonline
A strong earthquake of at least a 7.0 magnitude struck in Russia's far east on Saturday, U.S. and Russian scientists said, sending tremors across the coastal peninsula. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred at a depth of 100 miles and about 95 kilometers northeast of the Russian town of Yelisovo in the mountainous Kamchatka Krai region.
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The Daily Targum
Women in some South and Central American countries are being warned against having children due to the Zika virus, according to the New York Times.
Virus infection in pregnant women is suspected to be linked to microcephaly or a small skull and underdeveloped brain in children, said Clifton Lacy, director of the Rutgers Institute for Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security and a research professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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CBS News
Severe weather is threatening the South, resulting from a massive storm system stretching from the South to the mid-Atlantic. More than 27 million Americans are in the path of more dangerous weather, reports CBS News correspondent David Begnaud. At least eight reported tornadoes tore through the South Tuesday, including one that touched down in Scooba, Mississippi and made it all the way to Alabama, leveling homes and leaving a path of destruction that stretched across both states.
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USA Today
A powerful Pacific storm rocked Southern California on Sunday, knocking out power to thousands in San Diego and killing at least one person.
Winds knocked over more than a dozen trees across the area, damaging homes and blocking roads — including a section of Interstate 5 in Oceanside, California, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
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