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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 on "Tips on a Successful Speaker Proposal" to learn about the presentation requirements and to gain helpful information provided by the Conference Committee. Submit your breakout session proposal today by clicking here.
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If you have not participated in this influential conversation that may guide the development of resources, tools and tactics to help communities work with spontaneous volunteers, there is still time. The Spontaneous Volunteers Survey closes tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. EST. We still are looking for input from 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. 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 deadline for article submissions for the IAEM Bulletin special focus issue on “How Changing Standards and Certifications Are Impacting Emergency Managements” has been extended to Friday, Feb. 26, 2015, 5:00 p.m. EST. This will be the first 2016 special focus issue of the Bulletin. 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. 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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Oneindia
A need was felt by the government of India to be prepared with disaster management plans after the Gujarat earthquake of 2001. A high powered committee was set up to make recommendations on the preparation of disaster management plans and suggesting effective mitigation mechanisms.
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IAEM-Canada is sponsoring the Golden Horseshoe Sector Working Group Workshop, scheduled for Apr. 5-6, 2016, at the Casablanca Winery Inn, Grimsby, Ontario. Registration and details are available online. The topics will include: Incorporating Social Media during an Exercise; Ethics for Emergency Planning and Response; Buffalo, NY Snow: Lessons Learned; Evacuation Planning
Considerations for Accessibility; Geospatial Emergency Management (GEM); and HIRA/CI Physical and Social Considerations. Download the event brochure here.
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CBC News
Alberta wildfire officials are getting a jump on what could be a long and busy season.
As it has for the last few years, the province is kicking off its forest fire season on March 1, one month earlier than it traditionally has.
Opening the season early was one of the recommendations of the Flat Top Wildfire Complex Review that followed the the 2011 Slave Lake fire, the most costly wildfire disaster in Canadian history.
NZ Herald News
Auckland Council is planning a "community-specific" approach to encourage the dismal number of Aucklanders prepared for disasters to up their game.
Megastorms, floods, fire, volcanic eruptions and Zika-like pandemics may affect the city — yet only 11 percent of Aucklanders are fully prepared for a disaster, the lowest level of any city in New Zealand.
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IAEM
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Feb. 17 announced the release of Fiscal Year 2016 notices of funding opportunity for 10 DHS preparedness grant programs totaling more than $1 billion. The grant programs provide funding to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, as well as transportation authorities, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector, to improve the nation’s readiness in preventing, protecting against, responding to, recovering from and mitigating terrorist attacks, major disasters and other emergencies. The FY 2016 grant guidance will continue to focus on the nation’s highest risk areas, including urban areas that face the most significant threats. New capabilities that are built using homeland security grant funding must be deployable if needed to support regional and national efforts. All capabilities being built or sustained must have a clear linkage to the core capabilities in the National Preparedness Goal. More information on the 10 DHS preparedness grant program funding opportunities is included in Grant Programs Directorate Information Bulletin 408. Detailed guidance, including application instructions for all grant programs, is available here.
IAEM
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued a report, “Ongoing Challenges and Future Considerations for DHS Biosurveillance Efforts” (GAO-16-413T). Since 2009, GAO has reported on progress and challenges with two of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) biosurveillance efforts—the National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) and the BioWatch program (designed to provide early detection of an aerosolized biological attack). The potential threat of a naturally occurring pandemic or a terrorist attack with a biological weapon of mass destruction underscores the importance of a national biosurveillance capability—that is, the ability to detect biological events of national significance to provide early warning and information to guide public health and emergency response. The Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 addresses this capability, in part by creating NBIC. The center was tasked with integrating information from human health, animal, plant, food, and environmental monitoring systems across the federal government, to improve the likelihood of identifying a biological event at an earlier stage. Similarly, DHS's BioWatch program aims to provide early indication of an aerosolized biological weapon attack. This report, which is based on previous GAO reports on biosuveillance issued from December 2009 through September 2015, describes progress and challenges GAO has reported in DHS's implementation of NBIC and BioWatch and considerations for the future of biosurveillance efforts at DHS. The full report and a highlights page can be downloaded here.
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IAEM
Based on an increase of 0.8 percent in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers for the 12-month period that ended December 2015, FEMA adjusted the calendar year 2016 statewide per capita indicator for recommending a cost share adjustment for the public assistance program to $137. FEMA will recommend an increase in the standard 75 percent federal cost share to no more than 90 percent of eligible costs when a disaster is so extraordinary that actual federal obligations under the Stafford Act, excluding administrative costs, meet or exceed
$137 per capita of state population. This adjustment applies to all disasters declared on or after Jan. 1, 2016 through Dec. 31, 2016.
IAEM
FEMA in coordination with state, local, tribal and territorial emergency managers and state broadcasters’ associations, will conduct a test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) in 22 states, two territories, and the District of Columbia on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 2:20 p.m. EST. Broadcasters are voluntarily participating in the test from Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Virginia. The EAS test is scheduled to last approximately one minute and will verify the delivery and broadcast of a national test message and assess the readiness for distribution of a national-level test message. The message will be nearly identical to the regular monthly test message of EAS, normally heard and seen by the public: “This is a national test of the Emergency Alert System. This is only a test.” The EAS test might also be seen and heard in states and tribes bordering the states participating in the test. For more information, visit the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System and Wireless Emergency Alerts websites.
Phys.org
A new survey of American households finds two-thirds lack adequate plans and supplies for a disaster, and half of them are not confident in the ability of government to meet the needs of children in a disaster. Many are also not confident that their own communities have adequate plans for dealing with a hurricane, flood or other major event.
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The Washington Post
Alarming new research has found that 4 billion people around the globe — including close to 2 billion in India and China — live in conditions of extreme water scarcity at least one month during the year. Half a billion, meanwhile, experience it throughout the entire year.
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SciDev.net
An Indo-Dutch team is creating early warning software that can help manage crowds at football matches and mass religious gatherings such as the Muslim Haj pilgrimage and the Hindu mega congregations or "Kumbh Melas" to ensure human safety.
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Campus Safety
There is a drone revolution underway. In the past year, drones have been one of the hottest topics for news outlets around the world. Media coverage varies wildly, ranging from how drones will save time, money and lives, to how drones will help grow a nation’s economy. There have also been plenty of concerns expressed over privacy and safety.
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Newsweek
When an earthquake hits, even a few seconds advance notice can be precious. Because digital communications can outrun seismic waves, scientists at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory have designed and released MyShake, a free Android app that crowdsources earthquake detection.
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IAEM
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) recently published a policy brief, “Climate change and climate policy induced relocations: a challenge for social justice,” which discusses the results of an interdisciplinary research workshop with academics and practitioners, held at Bielefeld University, Germany, in November 2014, in cooperation with COST Action IS1011 on Climate Change and Migration. The policy brief, which targets policymakers and practitioners engaged in climate change adaptation and mitigation, discusses population migration as a means of adapting to climate change as well as reactive relocation after a disaster. The Bielefeld Consultation recommended a list of minimum standards for planned relocations that take resulting social justice challenges and human rights issues of both the host community and relocated population into consideration. Download the policy brief here.
Mesquite News
Mesquite, Texas has selected Cindy Carlo as the city’s emergency management coordinator, beginning Feb. 13. Carlo replaces Raymond Rivas, who was recently named neighborhood services director.
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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 and register yourself along with your agency 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 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is presenting a Feb. 19 webinar, “Hazard Mitigation Activities,” on Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST, for stakeholders related to newly published guidance on Climate Resilient Mitigation Activities (CRMA). CRMA includes green infrastructure methods, expanded ecosystem service benefits, and three flood reduction and drought mitigation activities: aquifer storage and recovery; floodplain and stream restoration; and flood diversion and storage. FEMA staff will present an overview, followed by presentations from Chris Koerner, PE, senior engineer/manager, Olshesky Design Group, Alexandria, Virginia; Maggie Skenderian, watershed programs manager, Portland (Oregon) Bureau of Environmental Services; and Rick Rosenberg, PE, founder and senior project manager, Rosenberg Associates Civil Engineers and Surveyors, in St. George, Utah. Register online.
IAEM
FEMA will host the 2016 National Preparedness Directorate National Training, Education and Exercise (NTE&E) Symposium at the Emergency Management Institute, May 24-26, 2016. This symposium provides a review of training and exercise programs within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that are applicable to our state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) partners. The symposium also provides a forum for sharing best practices and case studies in training and exercises from the SLTT level. Download flyer with details.
Daily Express
The initial quake, which measured 5.3 on the Richter scale, struck the area just before 9 p.m. local time.
Two more aftershocks, each measuring around 3 on the scale then followed.
Dozens of houses have been damaged by the shocks, which began just six miles below the surface.
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The Telegraph
A strong 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Christchurch in New Zealand on Sunday, causing cliffs to collapse into the sea but no major damage to the city, which was devastated by a 2011 quake which killed nearly 200 people.
The epicenter of Sunday's quake on New Zealand's south island was 9 miles east of Christchurch and at a shallow depth 9 miles, said the country's seismological body Geonet.
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Radio New Zealand International
The director of Tonga's emergency management office says authorities are keeping a close eye as Cyclone Winston moves close to the northern Vava'u group and nearby Niue.
Early this morning Cyclone Winston was located about 230 kilometres south of Niuatoputapu, or 80 kilometers north-northeast of Neiafu — moving at about 23 kilometres an hour, with gusts of up to 150 kilometers an hour.
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Fresh Plaza
An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale has struck off the coast of central Chile near the town of Tongoy, causing buildings in the capital Santiago to shake. The earthquake was reportedly followed by a 5.1 magnitude aftershock. Thankfully, no casualties or damage have been reported.
The huge tremors occurred in the Pacific at 12 miles deep.
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The Associated Press via Firefighter Nation
A treacherous mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain turned morning commutes to icy misery Tuesday for many returning from a long holiday weekend in the Northeast, a day after suspected twisters tore through parts of the South.
At least three deaths were reported on slick roads, all in Virginia, and motorists battled hazardous road conditions over a wide area from the Mid-Atlantic states through Pennsylvania to northern New England.
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