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IAEM
Don’t delay. There are only eight more days until the IAEM Call for Speakers closes on Friday, Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET. Read the Speaker Guidance, view the Conference Committee webinar on “Insider Tips for a Successful Speaker Proposal,” and submit your presentation today. The IAEM 65th Annual Conference & EMEX will be held in Long Beach, California, Nov. 10-15, 2017.
Hindustan Times
If there’s one thing that private and state-run schools in South Delhi have in common, it is their poor state of preparedness for tackling disasters.
A Delhi government team that has been inspecting schools in the area stumbled upon various inadequacies in this regard, including expired fire extinguishers, empty sand buckets, first-aid boxes filled with expired medicines and dry underground water tanks.
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The Manila Times
Project NOAH or Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards was born in the aftermath of Typhoon “Sendong” in 2011 when former President Benigno Aquino III called for “a more accurate, integrated, and responsive disaster prevention and mitigation system, especially in high-risk areas throughout the Philippines.” It was launched in July 2012 in Marikina City.
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The Courier
Emergency services faced with an unprecedented health crisis they could not have understood moved swiftly to curb the fallout from last year's thunderstorm asthma event that claimed nine lives, a review has found.
Tony Pearce, the inspector general for emergency services, said more lives could have been lost had it not been for the response of the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority, Ambulance Victoria, the Health Department and hospitals.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is updating its policy that guides how agency officials interpret regulatory requirements in their review and approval of tribal mitigation plans. The updated Tribal Mitigation Plan Review Guide will supersede FEMA’s current Tribal Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Guidance issued in 2010. The goal is to simplify the guidance, address key policy questions, and improve alignment with similar FEMA policies on state and local mitigation planning. The underlying regulatory requirements for tribal mitigation planning in the Code of Federal Regulations (44 CFR part 201) have not changed. The draft Guide (January 2017) and a fact sheet summarizing the initial consultation period are posted to the FEMA Library. Tribal officials can submit comments on the Guide by mail to: National Mitigation Planning Program, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA), DHS/FEMA, 400 C Street SW, Suite 313, Washington, DC 20472-3020. Comments also can be submitted by email to tribalconsultation@fema.dhs.gov. All comments must be submitted either by U.S. mail or email no later than Apr. 9, 2017.
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Nextgov
The Homeland Security Department's cyber operational center received middling marks in a watchdog report recently released.
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center has made progress on its statutory missions, including being the main cybersecurity information sharing liaison between the government and the private sector, according to the report from the Government Accountability Office.
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IAEM
The Government Accountability Office on Feb. 7 released a report, Federal Disaster Assistance: FEMA's Progress in Aiding Individuals with Disabilities Could Be Further Enhanced (GAO-17-200), which assesses the extent to which FEMA and other entities provide disaster services to individuals with disabilities, individuals with limited English proficiency, and children in need of family reunification. GAO examined federal, state, and local disaster assistance efforts for six major disasters that occurred from March 2014 through October 2015, where federal response and recovery efforts included assistance to the three target groups and that varied in location and type of disaster. GAO interviewed relevant officials, visited three of the six sites, and analyzed emergency operations plans and disaster summary reports. Recommendations were that FEMA should establish written procedures for involving Office of Disability Integration and Coordination in regional activities; set goals for the number of state and local emergency managers who will take a key training on disability integration; and evaluate alternative delivery methods for the training. FEMA concurred with all of the recommendations.
IAEM
The formation of a new public-private partnership of stakeholders focused on reducing societal harm from extreme environmental events, the Alliance for Integrative Approaches to Extreme Environmental Events, was announced on Jan. 24 at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting. This community-initiated and community-governed framework will bring together a broad group of collaborators – including researchers, operational practitioners, federal agencies including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, non-profit organizations, philanthropists and entrepreneurs – to improve holistic understanding, prediction of and response to severe and hazardous weather. In addition, the alliance will facilitate interdisciplinary research, and its associated transition to practice, in ways that advance the community’s collective agenda. To learn more about the alliance, see the press release and a one-page overview available on the group’s website.
IAEM
A recording of the Feb. 2 IAEM Think Tank on “FirstNet: What You Need to Know” is now available for members online. The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 created the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), charged with the mission to build, operate and maintain the first high-speed, nationwide wireless broadband network dedicated to public safety. FirstNet will provide a single interoperable platform for emergency and daily public safety communications. This broadband network will fulfill a fundamental need of the public safety community as well as the last remaining recommendation of the 9/11 Commission. Using nationwide 700 MHz spectrum, FirstNet will put an end to decades-long interoperability and communications challenges and help keep our communities and emergency responders safer. Learn what emergency managers need to know about FirstNet and how it will be useful for them. Also, view previous IAEM Think Tanks on a wide variety of topics.
IAEM
The IAEM-Global Editorial Work Group has extended the deadline to Feb. 20, 2017, for articles on “Making Practical Applications out of Emergency Management Research,” the topic of the first IAEM Bulletin special focus issue of 2017. Articles might include, but are not limited to: communications and messaging; social science research developed recently or being done currently; and research on preparedness for people who are disabled or who have other access or functional needs. Please consider writing an article for this issue, and forward the call for articles to your colleagues who might be interested in writing on the topic. Article length is 750-1,500 words, and articles must be submitted via email to Karen Thompson, editor, no later than Feb. 20, 2017. See author guidelines.
ASPR Blog
Thousands of people could need burn care following a nuclear detonation (which produces intense heat resulting in severe burns) or in a massive explosion. In addition to those catastrophic threats, between 2010 and 2014, emergency departments treated approximately 486,000 people for non-fatal burn injuries and in 2014 alone, fires took the lives of 3,275 people.
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Campus Safety
A definition of terrorism is not as easy to come by as you may think. Defining terrorism can be as difficult as trying to understand it because there is no universally accepted definition.
Some cities have ordinances that define terroristic acts, states have statutes and various agencies of the federal government define terrorism differently.
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EDM Digest
Dangerous animals escaping from zoos is always an alarming situation. Certainly, zoos have disaster management plans and work closely with local emergency agencies to make sure everyone is on the same page for handling such an event. Venomous snakes, however, present a very different and potentially deadly challenge.
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Purdue Exponent
Purdue will lead research to determine why some communities recover from natural disasters more quickly than others, an effort aimed at addressing the nation's critical need for more resilient infrastructure and to enhance preparedness.
The research team will apply advanced simulations and game-theory algorithms, access millions of social media posts and survey data collected along the New Jersey shore, which was devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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Highlands Current
I was in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 4, when a man with a semi-automatic rifle entered a child-friendly pizzeria and fired. He was convinced that a child-sex ring operated there. He wanted to save the children.
Turns out, he was acting on fake news. Instead of saving children, he terrified them.
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Independent Record
When a forest fire threatens your house and you have minutes to run, do you know what you plan to grab besides your family?
The photo albums? Computer hard drive? Tax records? Gun collection? Clean underwear?
The U.S. Forest Service faces a much bigger version of that question.
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Emergency Management
Resilience is a word that has been tossed around a lot in recent years. It is the newest term to enter the emergency management lexicon and you find it across the spectrum of thinking about personal resilience, organizational resilience and spiritual resilience. All of the above have this sense of being able to avoid a crushing blow, and being able to weather the storms of life or business.
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Daily Mail
Drones packed with blood and medical supplies are to be flown into disaster zones.
Civilians will be able to order the life-saving unmanned aerial vehicles – named "Stork" drones – on mobile phones under a government scheme paid for out of the foreign aid budget.
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IAEM
The Certification Commission has a few exciting projects planned for this year. Be sure to watch for announcements as we unveil these initiatives. We can’t wait to share our ideas and better engage with our certification candidates.
Daily Mail
Thunderstorms and flash flooding in Melbourne is expected to ease after a wild and woolly end to the weekend led to hundreds of emergency calls.
Rain battered Victoria on Sunday and led to flash flooding, power outages and damages to homes.
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CNN
Heavy snowfall triggered a series of avalanches along the Afghan-Pakistani border on Sunday, killing at least 59 people in the two countries, officials say.
Forty-five died and 11 were injured in northeastern Afghanistan's Barg-e-Matal district. Nuristan Province Governor Hafiz Abdul Qayum said the death toll may rise as more victims are discovered. The area is about 150 miles northeast of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.
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Chicago Tribune
Brittany Ross remembers she was savoring the smell of her aunt's simmering white beans when the storm that injured about 40 people in southeastern Louisiana hit.
"The place started shaking, kind of twisting," she said Tuesday as she stood amid the wreckage at a small trailer park in eastern New Orleans.
The tornado, she said, lifted the trailer off the ground and slammed it down.
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Reuters
An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 hit the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand late on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Tremors were felt across parts of North India, including the Indian capital New Delhi, according to people on the ground.
The Indian Meteorological Department said the earthquake was one of "moderate" intensity.
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ABC Online
Residents of a Marrickville apartment block who were earlier evacuated over fears it would collapse have been given the all clear to return.
The foundations of the Ewart Street building were thought to be unstable due to the collapse of an adjacent waterhole and 17 residents left following the warning.
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The News Tribune
A shallow, 5.6-magnitude earthquake rattled residents of Colombia's largest city on Monday, leading office workers to evacuate buildings and forcing the city's airport to temporarily close.
The earthquake struck shortly after 8 a.m. local time and was centered in the department of Huila, about 185 miles southwest of the capital. It had a depth of 23 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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