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The Call for Speakers for the IAEM 64th Annual Conference & EMEX in Savannah, Georgia, Oct. 14-19, 2016, will close on Friday, Feb. 19 at 5:00 p.m. EST. View the Speaker Submission Guidance and the recording of the webinar for "Tips on a Successful Speaker Proposal" for the requirements and helpful information provided by the Conference Committee. Submit your breakout session proposal today by clicking here.
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IAEM, as part of the FEMA Whole Community Contract, has been conducting a survey to understand the current mindset of emergency managers and organizations with regard to spontaneous volunteers. We still need participants. 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 the 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.
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The IAEM-Global Editorial Work Group is seeking feature articles on “How Changing Standards and Certifications Are Impacting Emergency Management” to be included in the first 2016 special focus issue. Articles might include, but are not limited to: NFPA 1600; EMAP; CEM®/AEM® certification program; various ISOs; overview of certifications and their impact on emergency management and continuity of operations; case studies on country-specific standards and their impact; benefits and challenges of EM-related certifications; and benefits and challenges of changing standards. The deadline for article submissions is Feb. 20, 2016; please read the author’s guidelines before submitting your 750-1,500 word article to Karen Thompson, editor. See the complete 2016 schedule and details here.
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Australia has the technology and the experts to help the state in disaster management in Kosi river basin as well as developing the region, Yadav said at a two-day "knowledge forum" here in the presence of Ryan Thew, first secretary, development, at the Australian High Commission in India.
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The Hindu
Google will make public emergency alerts for floods available in India as part its efforts to make critical information more accessible around natural disasters.
“Users in India can now find ‘flood alerts’ along with ‘river level’ information for more than 170 areas in which the Central Water Commission has active observation stations,” Google said in a statement.
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IAEM-USA Membership and Marketing Committee Chair George Whitney invites IAEM-USA members to roll-up their sleeves and join the committee to help in its mission to "analyze membership trends, assist in the development of membership recruitment campaigns, and assure that membership services are being provided.” The committee looks for ways to drive better engagement, processes, decision-making, products, and increase value for members. To this end, the committee seeks to engage every IAEM-USA member who has marketing insights, ideas and skills to share with the committee and who wants to drive future member engagement greater than it has ever been. The committee meets monthly via conference call or GoToMeeting and solicits committee volunteers to tackle small projects as work teams. Interested members should contact George Whitney or the committee’s staff liaison, Dawn Shiley.
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The President’s budget request for FY 2017 was released Feb. 9, 2016. The funding request, which called for significant reductions for grants under the State and Local Programs account, included $100M for a new Regional Competitive Grant program. The request included $200M for the State Homeland Security Grant Program, a reduction of $267M; and $330M for the Urban Area Security Initiative, a reduction of $270M. The request also included $350M for Emergency Management Performance Grants, the same as last year; and $670M for Firefighter Assistance Grants, the same as requested last year but $20M less than appropriated. The request for the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grants program is $54.5M, a reduction of $45.5M. A detailed memo will be posted on the IAEM-USA Government Affairs page by Friday, Feb. 12, 2016.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published a report, “FEMA Has Made Progress Implementing Key Programs, but Opportunities for Improvement Exist.” GAO was asked to review aspects of FEMA's disaster response programs. The report addresses FEMA's efforts to implement, assess, and improve selected disaster response programs for urban search and rescue (US&R), incident management, and evacuation tracking. GAO reviewed documentation such as policies, procedures, after action reports, and readiness assessments for these programs and deployments to select disasters for fiscal years 2010 through 2014—capturing pre- and post-Hurricane Sandy disasters. GAO recommends that FEMA develop a plan to prioritize and fund the replacement of US&R task force equipment; a plan to ensure that Incident Management Assistance Teams (IMAT) receive required training, and a workforce strategy for retention of IMAT staff; and document, track, and analyze recommendations and lessons learned from disaster deployments. DHS concurred with the recommendations and described plans to implement them.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency Youth Preparedness Council offers a unique opportunity for youth leaders to serve on a distinguished national council; to complete self-selected individual and group youth preparedness projects at the local and national levels; to voice their opinions, experiences, ideas, solutions, and questions on youth disaster preparedness with the leadership of FEMA and national organizations working on youth preparedness; and to participate in the Youth Preparedness Council Summit. FEMA is now accepting applications for new members. Applications are due Mar. 1, 2016. To learn more and apply, please visit 2016 Youth Preparedness Council Application Materials.
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published a report titled “Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): Strengthening Regional Coordination Could Enhance Preparedness Efforts” (GAO-16-38). GAO was asked to review FEMA's efforts to enhance coordination for regional preparedness. The report addresses the extent to which FEMA and regional offices have (1) addressed preparedness grant management coordination challenges, (2) established a system to assess NIMS implementation, and (3) collaborated with Regional Advisory Council (RAC) stakeholders. GAO found that the FEMA has taken some steps, but has not fully addressed, preparedness grant management coordination challenges between headquarters and its regions. GAO recommended that FEMA develop a plan for addressing long-standing coordination challenges with grant management, review after action reports to assess NIMS implementation, and improve coordination with RACs. Although DHS did not concur with the grants management recommendation, GAO continues to believe challenges documented in the report support the recommendation. DHS concurred with the other four recommendations and described the actions they planned to take in response. The full report and a highlights page can be downloaded here.
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The Emergency Management Institute (EMI) is accepting applications for the E/L0912 Community Specific Integrated Emergency Management Course (IEMC): “Preparing the Whole Community for a Complex Coordinated Attack.” This course is a FEMA-sponsored community-specific training initiative designed to improve the ability of local jurisdictions to prepare for, protect against, and respond to complex coordinated attacks. The purpose of this course is to provide a no-consequence environment where participants from multiple disciplines can discuss and analyze the local, state, regional and Federal capabilities required to respond to an attack involving coordinated assaults against multiple targets. Through briefings, case studies, facilitated discussions, and planning workshops, participants work through a community-specific attack scenario to identify gaps in their current plans, as well as mitigation strategies. The course is targeted for individual communities with populations of approximately 100,000 or greater. Details are available here, and the deadline to apply is Mar. 31, 2016.
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Homeland Security Today
House lawmakers held a hearing to discuss the First Responder Network Authority’s progress in the deployment of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network in light of its recent request for proposal, which marked a major step forward in FirstNet’s efforts to modernize communications for first responders.
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IAEM
FEMA released the National Planning System with the intent of building capability and integrating national planning efforts across the whole community, including all levels of government, the private sector, and with non-governmental organizations. The National Planning System provides a unified approach and common terminology to plan for all threats and hazards across the five national preparedness system mission areas, which are prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery. The National Planning System is applicable to the whole community – those supporting, overseeing, and governing planning efforts, as well as those learning the concepts and skills inherent in the planning discipline. The benefit of this unified approach is a more informed, shared understanding of risks, needs, and capabilities across the whole community and, a more secure and resilient nation.
Phys.org
NOAA scientists and partners have embarked on a land, sea and air campaign in the tropical Pacific to study the current El Niño and gather data in an effort to improve weather forecasts thousands of miles away.
The El Niño Rapid Response Field Campaign will deploy NOAA's Gulfstream IV research plane and NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown, NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft equipped with specialized sensors, and researchers stationed on Kiritimati Island in the Republic of Kiribati, approximately 1,340 miles south of Honolulu, Hawaii.
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The Associated Press via The Washington Post
President Barack Obama is asking Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to fight the Zika virus and the mosquitoes that spread it here and abroad, but says “there shouldn’t be a panic on this.”
The virus is spreading rapidly through Latin America. While most people experience either mild or no symptoms, Zika is suspected of causing a devastating birth defect — babies born with abnormally small heads — and pregnant Americans are urged to avoid travel to affected areas.
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Business Insider
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper gave a chilling threat assessment today to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Clapper's testimony to the committee reflected the U.S. Intelligence Community's Worldwide Threat Assessment for the coming year. Based on the insights of the various branches of the U.S. Intelligence Community, Clapper provided a rundown of the major global and regional threats.
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The Christian Science Monitor
The Wilkins family of Aliceville, Alabama, saw storm warnings on the news, but they were still not expecting their home to receive a direct hit from one of a string of tornadoes across the South. The Wilkins home, like dozens of others in the area, is mostly destroyed, but they are grateful the family is safe, Adam Ganucheau reported for AL.com.
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PBS NewsHour
More than 100 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma last year, and a new multi-million-dollar grant to four universities in the heart of Tornado Alley may lead to better information about where and when severe weather may strike. NewsHour's Stephen Fee reports from Oklahoma.
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The China Post
As rescue teams continued their efforts beyond the critical 48 hours following Saturday's Kaohsiung Meinong earthquake, new technical aids were deployed to bolster on-the-ground manpower. These technologies have been critical in the successful search and rescue of those trapped, including Lee Chung-tian, who was trapped for nearly 60 hours in the rubble and was freed by intricate excavation methods.
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CBC News
When buildings collapse in future disasters, the hero helping rescue trapped people may be a robotic cockroach.
Repulsive as they may be, roaches have the remarkable ability to squish their bodies down to one quarter their normal size, yet still scamper at lightning speed. Also, they can withstand 900 times their body weight without being hurt.
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IAEM
An article by Amy Pope, Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, “The Zika Virus: What You Need to Know,” has been published on the White House website to provide answers to some of the questions that Americans may have about the Zika virus and who it could impact. “With the recent outbreaks in the Americas, the number of Zika virus disease cases among travelers visiting or returning to the United States will likely increase. These imported cases may result in local spread of the virus in some areas of the United States. CDC has been monitoring these epidemics and is prepared to address cases imported into the United States and cases transmitted locally,” Ms. Pope writes. All of the latest updates can be found on the CDC site at www.cdc.gov/Zika. A fact sheet on preparing for and responding to the Zika virus at home and abroad is available here.
Tampa Bay Times
Flagler County’s emergency management chief has been tapped for the same role in Pasco County, Florida. Tuesday, county commissioners are scheduled to confirm the appointment of Kevin J. Guthrie, 45, as Pasco’s new emergency management director effective Feb. 29. Guthrie replaces Annette Doying, who announced her resignation in November and left the post Dec. 31.
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The U.S. Health & Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) will share two of their excellent emergency management planning, and response, and community recovery tools for healthcare emergency managers at a webinar hosted by the IAEM-USA Healthcare Caucus on Feb. 18, 2016, 1:00 p.m. EST. emPOWER allows every hospital, first responder, electric company, and community member can use the map to find the monthly total of Medicare beneficiaries with electricity-dependent equipment claims at the U.S. state, territory, county, and zip code level and turn on “real-time” NOAA severe weather tracking services to identify areas and populations that may be impacted and at risk for power outages. TRACIE was created to meet the information and technical assistance needs of regional ASPR staff, healthcare coalitions, healthcare entities, healthcare providers, emergency managers, public health practitioners, and others working in disaster medicine, healthcare system preparedness, and public health emergency preparedness. Register online.
IAEM
The Points of Light is offering an opportunity for agencies and organizations tasked with coordinating spontaneous volunteers during a disaster the chance to participate in an internet-based exercise entitled “Operation Volunteer Placement” on Feb. 24, 2016. This exercise will provide participants from local agencies and organizations that have a role in coordinating and/or utilizing spontaneous volunteers during a disaster the opportunity to work together as a unified team in establishing, managing and demobilizing a Volunteer Reception Center. Learn more or register yourself or organization to participate in this exercise. This exercise is free and open to agencies and organizations responsible for coordinating spontaneous volunteers during a disaster.
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The 4th Annual Crisis & Risk Management Summit, “Improving Crisis Resilience for Undesired Events to Assure Business Continuity,” has been scheduled for May 29-June 1, 2016, in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The summit is supported by the Kuwait National Guard, IAEM, and the International Police Science Association. VIP keynote speakers will include: His Excellency Khaled Al Mansoori, IAEM International Council President, and LCDR Sheikh Mubarak Ali A-Sabah, Head of Maritime Operations, Kuwait Coast Guard. The summit will focus on how to prevent incidents before they occur through the use of effective risk management strategies. Using business continuity plans to boost crisis and operational resilience remains a top priority. Download event brochure for details.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI) will hold the 18th Annual Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium on June 9, 2016, at the National Emergency Training Center, Emmitsburg, Maryland. Mark your calendars now. Information about the event is available here. The deadline for papers and facilitated session abstracts is Feb. 15, 2016. All submissions will be subject to a blind peer review, and there will be only 25½ hour slots available on this year’s agenda. Poster session submissions must be received by Mar. 31, 2016.
The Wall Street Journal
The mayor of a Taiwanese city hit by an earthquake warned residents to expect a sharp rise in the death toll, even as rescue teams freed several survivors trapped in a collapsed apartment building.
On a visit to a morgue in Tainan city on Monday, Mayor William Lai told reporters that as days went by, more dead would be discovered than survivors from Saturday’s quake.
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BBC News
At least 10 people were killed and scores more injured, police say, after two passenger trains collided in the German state of Bavaria.
The head-on crash happened near Bad Aibling, a spa town about 37 miles southeast of Munich.
The transport minister said the trains had crashed into each other while both travelling at around 62mph.
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USA Today
One of the world's newest and biggest cruise ships headed back to its home port Monday after a powerful storm damaged the vessel and left some passengers shaken.
The fierce weather that struck Royal Caribbean's 168,666-ton Anthem of the Seas on Sunday forced the captain to confine passengers to their cabins until the storm passed early Monday.
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The Associated Press via Firefighter Nation
It may take weeks to determine why a huge construction crane that was being lowered during strong winds came crashing down onto a street, killing a pedestrian and crushing a row of parked cars, city officials said Saturday.
Investigators are reviewing surveillance footage from nearby buildings and poring over the twisted, crumpled steel of the 565-foot-long crane, which came thundering down onto a historic Manhattan street 10 blocks north of the World Trade Center during Friday morning's commute.
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The Associated Press via Firefighter Nation
An explosion at a biodiesel plant has killed two workers and left one survivor seriously injured, Spanish emergency services said Saturday.
The Emergency Coordination and Information Center for the regional government of Valencia said the explosion occurred at around 11 a.m. Saturday at a fuel production plant in Algemesi, 21 miles south of the port city of Valencia. Social media showed plumes of black smoke emerging from the Biocom Energia plant.
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The Statesman
At least five people were killed and two were missing after a landslide hit the Central Java province of Indonesia, rescuers said on Saturday.
Heavy downpours triggered the landslide in Purworejo district on Friday, Xinhua quoted Marsudi, spokesman of the National Search and Rescue Office, as saying.
At least two houses were hit, he said.
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Daily Express
The strong tremor struck the town of Panguna in Papua New Guinea today, according to seismologists.
The earthquake, at 2.19 a.m. local time was 58 miles southwest of the town of Panguna on Bougainville Island.
It struck about 19 miles deep, according to local reports.
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Daily Mail
Six people have been confirmed dead after a landslide buried a two-storey block of flats in south China earlier today.
There were 15 households living at the site in Fude village, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the People's Daily Online reports.
Local authorities are investigating the cause of the landslide and have ordered a thorough inspection for hidden safety hazards.
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Stuff.co.nz
Strong aftershocks are expected after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake rattled the upper South Island of New Zealand.
Thousands of people, from Dunedin to Auckland, reported feeling the earthquake, which hit on Tuesday.
There have been no reports of injuries or significant damage.
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