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Don’t wait until the last minute. Prepare now and bring your “A” game for the best chance to be selected as a speaker at the IAEM 67th Annual Conference & EMEX, Nov. 15-20, 2019, in Savannah, Georgia. Learn how to become a speaker on the conference website. The call for speakers closes at 5:00 p.m. EST, Feb. 15, 2019.
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Australian Journal of Emergency Management
The Emergency Management Sector Adaptation Plan (EM-SAP) is a direct response to observed and projected effects of climate change and helps the sector identify opportunities and meet the risks communities face.
The emergency management sector is continually challenged by changes to the frequency, intensity, distribution and duration of acute events, major disasters and long-term climate-related stresses.
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Australian Journal of Emergency Management
University of Newcastle researchers captured media attention in 2017 with the release of a study modelling tsunami risk for the city of Sydney. The study considered a range of scenarios from minor disruptions through to rare, one-in-5000-year disasters.
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POLITICO
Many Senate Republicans are deeply opposed to President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to build his border wall, with enough resistance that the president might ultimately be forced to veto a measure intended to block him.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released the “State-led Public Assistance Guide,” providing additional resources for recipients to lead some or all aspects of Public Assistance operations for smaller disasters. State-led Public Assistance maximizes specialized features of the Public Assistance delivery process to enhance the capacity of recipients to achieve local communities’ immediate and long-term recovery goals. Aligning with the FEMA 2018-2022 Strategic Plan, state-led Public Assistance operations preserves federal resources for catastrophic disasters and strengthens the emergency management enterprise to one that is federally supported, state-managed, and locally executed.
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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 and there are only eight more days to respond. 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.
Homeland Security Today
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Assistant Director of Infrastructure Security, Mr. Brian Harrell, has sent a message to the faith-based community, underscoring the importance of working together to mitigate risk and improve security practices.
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Emergency Management
More than 100 Camp Fire victims have been ordered off their properties after federal officials threatened not to pay for debris cleanup, a move that left residents and local leaders livid.
At an emotional meeting Monday morning, Paradise town officials rescinded a December urgency ordinance that had allowed property owners to live temporarily in trailers or RVs on their burned properties.
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Federal News Network
A worldwide pandemic. A major hack of agricultural harvesting equipment. A massive earthquake.
A recent report from the Senior Executives Association paints a dire picture: Today’s federal workforce is increasingly overworked, stressed, risk-averse and ill-equipped to handle any one of these major emergencies or disasters, to name a few.
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Arizona Public Media
Federal firefighting agencies had to postpone trainings, prescribed burns and hiring during the shutdown, which may affect how prepared their firefighters are for wildfire season.
Firefighters in the National Forest Service, National Parks Service and Bureau of Land Management will have to reschedule workshops they missed, prepare the land and the paperwork for prescribed burns that had to be cancelled, and rehire seasonal firefighters for wildfire season.
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NBC News
Ramón Otero has worked toward improving his community of Parcelas Nuevas after Hurricane Maria left it almost unrecognizable nearly a year and a half ago.
“Roads still in poor conditions need to be rebuilt ... some homes in communities like Jájome still have blue tarps,” Otero told NBC News in Spanish. “Almost all of Puerto Rico still has sectors that lack proper lighting.”
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Emergency Management
The state set up a special medical shelter in an old building during Hurricane Florence in a section of Goldsboro, N.C., at risk for flooding, a new report says.
In Winston-Salem, people who were unable to climb stairs were marooned on the first floor of the Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, separated by steep stairs from the only bathrooms open to evacuees, according to the report released Tuesday by Disability Rights North Carolina.
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EDM Digest
A new study uses a train knocked over in 1906 to check the accuracy of modern earthquake simulations.
The study models how much the ground has to shake in order to knock over a narrow gauge locomotive sitting on the tracks — which is exactly what happened on a side track near Point Reyes Station, north of San Francisco, when a massive earthquake struck San Francisco on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906.
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Emergency Management
Meteorologists just announced the creation of a scale that will rank intensity of atmospheric rivers from Categories 1 through 5, similar to the existing scale used for hurricanes.
The American Meteorological Society in a blog post Tuesday said the AR scale will help water and weather experts track the storms, which are prevalent on the West Coast, and determine whether they are beneficial or hazardous to the regions they hit.
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Homeland Security Today
In 2018, the high-profile attacks of 2017 appeared to give way to smaller, isolated attacks that were more focused on more concealed weapons or low-tech weapons, i.e., knifes or vehicle attacks. Do you see this as an established shift in tactics or something else?
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Campus Safety Magazine
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its 2019-2022 National Health Security Strategy, which includes details on several health security threats facing the U.S. today and the department’s overarching objectives to protect citizens from these threats.
Every four years, HHS and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) create the NHSS to establish a strategic approach to enhance the security of the nation’s health in times of crisis and provide a “vision for strengthening our nation’s ability to prevent, detect, assess, prepare for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from 21st century health security threats.”
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IAEM
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) are pleased to announce the fourth annual National Health Security Award. This award recognizes local health departments that have demonstrated significant accomplishments in implementing health security-related initiatives within their jurisdictions. Applications are being accepted through Apr. 27, 2019. Awardees will be featured in NACCHO’s publications and receive a scholarship to NACCHO 2019 Annual Conference on July 9-11 in Orlando, Florida. Learn more.
IAEM
The Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado─Boulder, has issued a call for applications for the Mary Fran Myers Scholarship, which provides financial assistance for selected individuals to attend the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, July 14-17, 2019. The Mary Fran Myers Scholarship recognizes outstanding individuals who share Myers' commitment to disaster research and practice and have the potential to make a lasting contribution to reducing disaster vulnerability. At least one scholarship recipient each year receives financial support. This year, applications will be accepted from those who reside outside North America and the Caribbean. Applicants from North America and the Caribbean will be eligible for the scholarship in 2020. The deadline for online applications is Mar. 15, 2019.
Australian Journal of Emergency Management
The first step in understanding risk is understanding the hazard. This means knowing the likelihood of the hazard event and its intensity. During 2018, Geoscience Australia updated the Tropical Cyclone Hazard Assessment (TCHA) to better calculate the likelihood of tropical cyclones in Australia.
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Homeland Security Today
As a political standoff shut down the government for 35 days, homeland security professionals scrambled to continue the mission. From Russia to China, to cyber attacks and near daily mass shootings, read on for where we should focus as a nation and in our communities. We reached out to our cadre of experts to ask: What are the real worries?
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State Tech Magazine
For decades, public safety officials have relied on dispatchers to alert them of active emergency situations. Dispatchers act as the intermediary between witnesses at the scene and emergency responders. However, the information they relay might not always be complete, and first responders may lack mission-critical knowledge before arriving.
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Contact Chelsea Firth, IAEM staff,to set up an official group AEM®/CEM® exam offering. Please indicate how many can participate; the date, time and location of the event; and who will be the proctor.
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The 2017 and 2018 disaster seasons were catastrophic, and the greatest impact was on our most vulnerable population – children. Children who experience disaster are five times more likely to have serious emotional trauma than adults. Still, 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. 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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Is your Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) program not living up to its full potential? Find out what to do about it. Risk management failures can have costly consequences. Protect your organization, and learn about the tools and practices your peers are using to improve their ERM practices. Join the Conference Board of Canada at Taking Enterprise Risk Management to the Next Level: ERM 2019 on Mar. 6 in Toronto, and discover how Canada’s top organizations are managing risk.. The full agenda is available online. Use rebate code PRM3 in the final stages of registration to save $100 off your registration.
Australian Journal of Emergency Management
This research is important to assist the Philippines develop more effective community engagement adaptation approaches and policies to better respond locally to climate change and disaster risk management. To explore this, a literature review was undertaken followed by interviews and focus group discussions with local experts and community representatives.
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National Geographic
When the earthquake struck on September 28, 2018, Indonesia's Sulawesi island flowed like water. Currents of mud swallowed anything in their paths, sweeping away entire sections of the city of Palu and crosscutting the region's neat patchwork of crop fields.
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Asia One
Japan's social media has gone into nervous overdrive following the discovery of a number of deep-sea fish traditionally thought to be harbingers of natural disaster.
On Monday, an oarfish measuring nearly four metres from snout to tail was found tangled in a fishing net off the port of Imizu, in the north-coast prefecture of Toyama.
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Evening Standard
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake has hit southern Mexico, with tremors felt as far afield as El Salvador and Guatemala.
The strong earthquake rattled nerves and swayed tall buildings hundreds of miles away in the capital.
According to the US Geological Survey, the quake was centered about 10 miles from the city of Tapachula in Chiapas state and struck at a depth of 40 miles (68 kilometers).
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The Conversation
Many parts of Queensland have been declared disaster zones and thousands of residents evacuated due to a 1-in-100-year flood. Townsville is at the epicentre of the “unprecedented” monsoonal downpour that brought more than a year’s worth of rain in just a few days, and the emergency is far from over with yet more torrential rain expected.
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The Advocate
The number of confirmed fatalities following the failure of a mine tailings dam in the southeastern Brazilian town of Brumadinho has reached 134.
Another 199 people remain unaccounted for following the January 25 disaster at the mine in Brumadinho, which is owned by Brazil's Vale, the world's largest iron-ore producer.
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ABC News
More rain is on the way for the West Coast after weekend storms caused flash flooding and mudslides in Southern California, wiping out roadways.
The large storm brought heavy rain, high winds and very heavy mountain snow to California on Saturday. A series of storms is set to bring further impacts to the region over the next few days.
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NDTV
A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Mentawai on Saturday, but no tsunami warning was issued.
The earthquake hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles) in the Mentawai island region in West Sumatra province, some 100 kilometres southeast of the town of Tuapejat and 200 kilometres south of the major port city of Padang, according to the USGS.
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The Guardian
After eight days of heavy monsoonal rain, authorities in the north Queensland city of Townsville had no choice but to open the floodgates of the Ross River Dam, deliberately flooding about 2,000 homes.
The decision was made as the Queensland government also published a warning to people to beware of crocodiles, snakes and other wildlife, which were reported to have left the swollen river and headed into some suburban areas.
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The Associated Press via The Mainichi
Authorities said Sunday that searchers had recovered 11 bodies from a landslide that buried cars on a highway in the mountains northeast of Bolivia's capital a day earlier. At least 18 other people were reported injured.
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NZHerald
A second fire has broken out in the Tasman region, close to another fire which has already led to mass evacuations.
The new fire is on Rabbit Island, close to Pigeon Valley where the original fire started yesterday.
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