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You only have one more day to submit your proposal to speak at the IAEM 2017 Annual Conference. The IAEM Call for Speakers closes on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, at 5:00 p.m. EST. Before you submit your proposal, be sure to read the Speaker Guidance and view the Conference Committee webinar on “Insider Tips for a Successful Speaker Proposal.” Submit your presentation today. The IAEM 65th Annual Conference & EMEX will be held in Long Beach, California, Nov. 10-15, 2017.
The Daily Star
A comprehensive and sustainable early warning system needs to be developed to reduce flood damage in the country, a roundtable told yesterday.
The rural population, who are the most affected in flood in the country, could keep their damage to a minimum with the help of modern technologies including telecommunications tools and community radio services, they said.
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Kashmir Reader
Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti directed mainstreaming of disaster management and preparedness by all departments even as she asked for supplementing of all hardware and software components to make the disaster response apparatus in the state ready for any eventuality.
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Expo Proteção (occupational health and safety) and its parallel event, Expo Emergência (rescue, firefighting, and emergencies), will bring together more than 300 exhibitors and about 50,000 professionals during three days in São Paulo. The expo, scheduled for Aug. 16-18, 2017, will be accompanied by technical events of professional management and technical training, through congresses, seminars, meetings, workshops, and courses, in addition to technical lectures offered by exhibitors. In its 7th year, Expo Proteção is consolidated as an indispensable space for business, the exchange of experiences, and professional training. In addition to its recognized tradition as a technical event, the expo will provide access to the 1st Latin American Congress of Emergency Managers, supported by AIGELAC (International Association of Emergency Managers of Latin America and the Caribbean) and IAEM (International Association of Emergency Managers), making this a unique occasion. Download event brochure.
Mondaq
The issue of earthquake-prone buildings remains a hot topic. There has recently been several pieces of legislation enacted which deal with the difficult issue of how to best protect the public from earthquake-prone buildings throughout New Zealand.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute (EMI) will begin its application period on Mar. 1 for the National Emergency Management Advanced Academy (NEMAA). The NEMAA program includes four resident courses, each five days in duration, to be completed during the current Federal fiscal year. Attendance at each course is required, and the courses must be attended in sequential order. The program is designed for emergency managers with a minimum of three years of experience in an emergency management position. The target audience includes government, non-profit voluntary organizations, and private sector managers responsible for emergency management or homeland security. Classes begin in October, November or December 2017, and are taken sequentially through September 2018. Applications will be accepted from Mar. 1-May 31, 2017, with selections in June and announcements in July. For more information, contact fema-empp-advanced-academy@fema.dhs.gov.
Reno Gazette-Journal
As the nation's 84,000 dams continue to age, a growing number of people downstream of these structures are at risk, according to experts and data of the nation's dams.
It's a problem highlighted this week as nearly 200,000 people evacuated the area near California's Oroville Dam, which suffered a potential failure of its emergency spillway.
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IAEM
On Feb. 14, the House Homeland Security Committee held the first in a series of hearings about the future of FEMA. IAEM-USA President Lanita Lloyd, MS, CEM, submitted a statement for the record, urging Congress and FEMA to adhere to the principles contained in the Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act. She also took the opportunity to highlight IAEM’s legislative priorities for the 115th Congress. Download statement.
IAEM
The Winter 2017 issue of the FirstNet EMS Update is now available online. This issue includes articles on First Responder Network Authority’s (FirstNet) recent meetings with EMS physicians; FirstNet’s collaboration with the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials on emerging applications for public safety; FirstNet’s partnership with the National Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN) to deliver individual state plans detailing the proposed network deployment in each states and more. Learn more about FirstNet.
IAEM
As part of the 2017 conference program, the Governor’s Hurricane Conference (GHC), set for May 14-19, in West Palm Beach, Florida, is hosting a May 18 workshop for students to present their original academic research. Students currently enrolled in institutions of higher education and who have taken or are taking emergency management related courses are encouraged to submit an application and abstract by Mar. 10, 2017. See complete details online.
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. The article deadline has been extended to Feb. 20, 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.
IAEM
The Mary Fran Myers Scholarship Committee is accepting applications at this time. Recipients will receive financial support to attend the Natural Hazards Center Research and Applications Workshop, scheduled for July 9-12, 2017, in Broomfield, Colorado. For the 2017 competition, applicants must reside outside North America or the Caribbean, while applicants from North America and the Caribbean will be eligible for the scholarship in 2018. Previous attendees of the Natural Hazards Workshop are not eligible. Preference is given to those who can demonstrate financial need. Learn about the scholarship here, and apply online by Mar. 17, 2017.
The Sacramento Bee
Before leaving town late Sunday, Vila Smith, one of nearly 200,000 Oroville Dam evacuees, stopped at home to gather her son’s Bible, which he’d left behind. She didn’t grab anything for herself, except a few important documents like her birth certificate.
“It’s all replaceable,” Smith, who works at Walmart, said of the belongings. “Bodies are not.”
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Devex
As Australia neared its highest ever recorded summer temperatures, the impact of extreme weather events topped the agenda of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and Meteorological Society of New Zealand conference in Canberra gathered from Feb. 7-10.
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Campus Safety
The attack at the Ohio State University campus on November 28, 2016 was not the first incident at a U.S. college or university classified by federal officials as being caused by radically inspired Islamist extremism. However, the attack using a car and knife as weapons reflected the latest terrorist strategy resulting in 12 victims directly injured by the attacker, among them students, faculty and staff.
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Emergency Management
Emergency management leaders at hospitals and medical centers are grappling with a major rule change from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
CMS finalized a rule it says is intended to establish consistent emergency preparedness requirements for health care providers participating in Medicare and Medicaid.
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Tampa Bay Times
Naturally, disaster threatened North Florida as Craig Fugate returned home after seven years in Washington running the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The tornadoes last month passed, and Fugate got on with decompressing.
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The Conversation
Standard advice about preparing for disasters focuses on building shelters and stockpiling things like food, water and batteries. But resilience — the ability to recover from shocks, including natural disasters — comes from our connections to others, and not from physical infrastructure or disaster kits.
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Nextgov
The Homeland Security Department’s science and technology division will be showing off a dozen new cyber tools developed with DHS funds at next week's RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco.
The tools range from helping organizations join forces against malware attacks to offering secure connections to Bluetooth devices.
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NZ Herald News
Christchurch and Japanese academics are developing new drone technologies that would be able to locate people buried in wreckage following natural disasters.
Canterbury University's Wireless Research Center has been hosting Professor Ryuji Kohno and his research colleagues from Yokohama National University, Japan.
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IAEM
The deadline for applications to be in the next certification review is approaching. Online applications received by Feb. 28, 2017, will be reviewed in March/April 2017. Candidates will be notified of the results during the week of April 16, 2017.
IAEM
The Australia AEM®/CEM® certification exam is in the process of being updated. Until further notice, all Australia candidates will take the International exam and therefore should only study references from the "recommended publications" list. If you have any questions, please contact IAEM certification staff at CEMinfo@iaem.com.
International Business Times
Several homes in the Australian community of Uarbry were destroyed by 80 out-of-control bushfires across New South Wales. Nine out of 12 homes in the community had been reportedly burned down.
The bushfire in Uarbry, called Sir Ivan, is being fanned by strong winds as temperatures reached 116 F in several areas. Many fires in the state were still out of control.
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Reuters via Yahoo News
Close to 1,000 flights were canceled and hundreds of vehicle crashes reported as a winter storm hit New England on Monday, dropping as much as two feet of snow on parts of Maine and leaving two dead in Massachusetts.
A 72-year-old man in Worcester, Massachusetts, died when he was struck by a snowplow on a roadway and a 60-year-old man died after being struck by a snowplow in a Bedford parking lot, police said.
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NZ Herald News
Helicopters with monsoon buckets are back in the air today as more than 100 residents of a Christchurch seaside community were evacuated from an approaching blaze.
Governors Bay is under threat after a wind change sent one of the fires raging out of control on Christchurch's Port Hills towards homes in the harbour settlement.
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KIVI-TV
Flooding in the area of the Snake River near Jerome has caused a 50-foot by 100-yard section of the rim of Snake River Canyon to collapse, weakening a portion of the canyon wall.
At least one Jerome County Commissioners is calling the collapse a safety risk.
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AFP via Yahoo News
A powerful cyclone is set to slam into the southern coast of Mozambique in the early hours of Thursday, bringing flooding, storm surges and high winds, meteorologists have warned.
Severe tropical storm Dineo will deepen into an intense tropical cyclone on Wednesday, packing wind of 166 kilometres (100 miles) an hour, the South African Weather Service said in a statement.
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The Associated Press via CBS News
A powerful nighttime earthquake in the southern Philippines killed at least six people and injured more than 120, with officials combing through cracked buildings and nearby towns Saturday to check on the damage and other possible casualties.
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The Associated Press via ABC News
Up to 40,000 people were caught in severe flooding following days of torrential rain in central Indonesia, where the death toll from landslides on Bali resort island rose to 13, officials said Saturday.
Indonesia's Disaster Mitigation Agency said that incessant rains in the past five days caused rivers on Sumbawa Island to break their banks and inundate seven sub-districts in West Nusa Tenggara province.
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BBC News
Twelve people, including two children, have been killed in a landslide on the popular Indonesian tourist island of Bali.
The landslide hit several villages in the Kintamani area.
A national disaster agency spokesman said it was caused by sustained torrential rain.
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CNN
Four people were killed by an avalanche at the French Alps ski resort of Tignes on Monday, officials said.
The four men were in an off-piste area when the avalanche buried them, crashing down on an area around 300 meters across.
The victims were a 49-year-old man, his 15 year-old-son and 19-year-old brother-in-law, as well as a ski instructor, 59, Deputy Prefect Nicolas Martrenchard, told reporters.
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