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IAEM
IAEM and Harvard National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (Harvard NPLI) will host a Think Tank on Mar. 4, 2020, 1:00-2:30 p.m. EST, on the topic of “The Future and Challenges in Emergency Management for 2020 and Beyond.” Join FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor and New York City Emergency Management (NYCEM) Commissioner Deanne Criswell for a discussion about current challenges the field of emergency management faces and where they see the field going. The moderator will be Richard Serino, distinguished visiting fellow at Harvard NPLI and a senior advisor at MIT’s Urban Risk Lab. Register online.
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IAEM
IAEM is pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas Drabek will present a plenary session at the IAEM 68th Annual Conference & EMEX in Long Beach, California, which will be held Nov. 13-18, 2020. Dr. Drabek will share his evolving visions of emergency management over his nearly six decades as a disaster researcher. Dr. Drabek is an emeritus professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver. He has given numerous conference presentations and authored or co-authored more than 30 books, plus more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. Visit the conference website for more information.
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Everbridge
With severe weather season intensifying, counties and cities across Florida share their perspective on hurricane preparedness and the benefits of leveraging Everbridge as their statewide mass notification platform, including improved situational intelligence, communication, and mutual aid. Watch Now.
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NZ Herald
Whangārei is breaking drought records with 33 consecutive days without rain — the second-worst dry spell in nearly three decades.
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Fijian Broadcasting Corporation
The Fiji Meteorology Office has installed a Fiji Flash Flood Guidance System which allows them to keep track of the likelihood of floods.
Minister for National Disaster Management Jone Usamate says the Met Office has mapped out all the likely flood areas in Fiji and advisories and warnings are given accordingly.
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Radio New Zealand
Researchers say councils need to be doing much more to ensure homes and buildings aren't wiped out when a mega-tsunami eventually strikes the east coast of the North Island. It's predicted an earthquake in the offshore Hikurangi trench will trigger a one-in-1000-year tsunami - swamping up to 300 kilometres of coastline from Te Araroa down to Wellington and around the Cook Strait to Paraparaumu.
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Drone DJ
An early bushfire detection system is currently seeking funding to be deployed before Australia’s next bushfire season thanks to UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute, a research group headed by Professor Joe Dong. The new system will utilize drones equipped with an array of sensors to monitor changes that could mean a bushfire is nearing.
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Optimum Seismic
California just experienced its deadliest and most destructive wildfire, ever. Nearly 14,000 homes, 530 commercial structures and 4,300 other buildings were destroyed in November when the Cal Fire ravaged the Butte County landscape, incinerating entire communities like the town of Paradise in its wake.
The devastation of lives and livelihoods lost is unfathomable. So too is the sheer scope of work needed to clear the charred debris before recovery can ever start.
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KOKH-TV
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, is researching a new warning system that would give those in the path of severe storms more of a warning time. The new system would have warnings move with the threat rather than the storm moving within a warning.
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IAEM
Beginning Mar. 1, FEMA is implementing changes to the nomination process that is used to request exercise support. In the new process, FEMA will review nominations each year in March and September. Decisions will be sent to qualifying community partners by May 1 for the spring round, and Nov. 2 for the fall round. FEMA provides no-cost assistance for exercise design, development, conduct, and evaluation to whole community partners through the National Exercise Program (NEP). You can request exercise support by submitting the Exercise Nomination Form.
IAEM
The FEMA National Advisory Council (NAC) is recruiting qualified individuals for the 2020 membership cycle. FEMA is now accepting applications for up to 13 open positions in discipline areas, including standards setting and accrediting, non-elected local tribal official, emergency response provider, and others. The council is a federal advisory committee of up to 35 members that advises the FEMA administrator on all aspects of emergency management to ensure input from and coordination with state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, and the private sector on federal plans, programs, and strategies for all hazards. The NAC provides consensus recommendations to the administrator and gives FEMA access to expertise, information, and advice on a broad range of issues. FEMA requests that those interested in serving on the FEMA NAC submit an application no later than 11:59 p.m. on Mar. 13. Detailed instructions on how to apply can be found on the FEMA NAC Membership Application site.
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IAEM
On Feb. 12, FEMA published a Federal Register notice for public comments on two proposed changes to the Code of Federal Regulations regarding publication requirements for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The first proposal changes the requirement that community loss of eligibility notices must be published in the Federal Register. The second proposal is to revise and remove the regulation requirement that FEMA maintain a list of communities eligible for flood insurance in the Code of Federal Regulations. FEMA proposes both of these requirements be published and maintained as lists on the internet or through another comparable method. Comments are due no later than Apr. 13. Detailed instruction on how to comment can be found on the Federal Register site.
IAEM
As the Administration releases its proposed 2021 budget, the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) is releasing its new Flood Mapping for the Nation report. The bottom line is that the Administration request of $100 million is wholly inadequate to finish the job mapping the nation consistent with the direction Congress provided under the National Flood Mapping Program in 2012.
Further, the justification in the budget points to a misleading statistic that flood mapping covers 98% of the population when, in fact, only 33% of the stream and coastal floodplain miles are mapped in the country. The report provides an analysis between what has been mapped and what needs to be mapped.
Big Think
It's not if, but when: Californians live with the certainty that someday, the Big One will hit.
The Big One is an earthquake with a magnitude of at least 7.8 on the Richter scale. Because of the plate tectonics at work under California, big quakes like that hit the area every 45 to 230 years.
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In Homeland Security
Japanese officials confirmed that 88 new cases of the pneumonia-like virus were recorded on the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship that has been quarantined in a Japanese port since the start of the month, and has become the largest cluster of coronavirus cases outside China.
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Homeland Security News Wire
As cases passed the 70,000 mark today, China published a detailed picture of its COVID-19 outbreak, which now shows signs of declining; however, officials warned cases could rebound as people return to work and school after the extended Lunar New Year break.
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IAEM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created a portal for COVID-19 information. Within the portal, they posted interim guidance for businesses and employers to plan and respond to COVID-19. CDC will update this interim guidance as needed and as additional information becomes available.
IAEM
Research is scarce and suggests that travel bans may only delay the spread of disease, according to a new paper from the University of Washington and The Johns Hopkins University, which concludes that more research is needed to determine the effectiveness of travel bans. Dr. Nicole Errett, Ph.D., MSPH from the University of Washington and her coauthors Lauren Sauer, MS, from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Lainie Rutkow, JD, Ph.D., from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, conducted an integrative review of the current literature and determined that there has been very limited research on the effectiveness of travel bans to limit the spread of Ebola, SARS, MERS, and Zika. Given the implementation of travel bans to control the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, this timely research provides insights relevant to the current response. Their research is in the current issue of the Journal of Emergency Management. An open access format of the study is available from JEM.
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The Hill
Every region of the world is affected in some way by extreme weather, and globally, it has cost trillions of dollars. Fortunately, a recent report in the National Academies Press confirms that “stressing prevention and preparedness while sustaining and enhancing essential disaster response, relief, and recovery capabilities” can lessen the impact of natural disasters.
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NPR
John High has diabetes, which led to his leg being amputated below the knee two years ago. He's been using a wheelchair since then, and hasn't gotten used to having to work out solutions to everyday problems — such as getting in and out of the shower in the small rental house he shares with his son in Norman, Oklahoma. But when he hears a tornado siren blaring out its high-pitched warning he feels a spasm of fear and dread. In this situation, he's on his own.
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In Homeland Security
Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) determined the novel coronavirus, formally known as 2019-nCoV, posed an international risk and declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) and a global health emergency, a designation only declared five times previously.
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Emergency Management
The newest earthquake early warning app, QuakeAlertUSA by Early Warning Labs, provides users in California the opportunity to set their preferred thresholds for when the app goes off. And when it does go off, it provides the user with a vibrating countdown to the real shaking.
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KDKA-TV
The Route 30 land slide has become the poster event for the landslide scourge that has gripped Western Pennsylvania for the past few years. Since those events, the situation has only gotten worse and slides now number in the hundreds.
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StreetInsider
Hurricane Reinstatement Solutions (HRS), based in Tucson, Arizona, has announced that they will be demonstrating their new (Patent Pending) Typhoon & Tsunami tools at the Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport (WWETT) Show at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.
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IAEM
If you are getting started with the IAEM Certification process in 2020, look for a mentor to provide assistance. IAEM’s website has a listing of Featured Mentors who are willing to volunteer to help candidates through the AEM®/CEM® application process.
Journal Inquirer
John Littell, the town’s emergency management director and fire chief, often finds his mind going 100 mph. He is thinking of what the next step should be before that step even occurs. He must react in seconds and minutes to situations.
With his knowledge of areas in town that are prone to flooding, Littell knew he had to relocate 80 people from a campground on Shenipsit Lake Road in 2005 before a major flood.
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Homeland Security Today
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad F. Wolf announced the release of Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Notices of Funding Opportunity for eight DHS preparedness grant programs totaling nearly $1.8 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.
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IAEM
Louisiana State University’s National Center for Biomedical Research and Training (NCBRT), a training partner of the National Domestic Training Consortium (NDPC), which is part of a professional alliance with the Department of Homeland Security/FEMA National Preparedness Directorate, is updating their course, Critical Decision Making for Complex Coordinated Attacks (now CCTA) PER-335. As they are updating this course, they feel there is a greater role for emergency managers as well as other disciplines, and they are looking to include them as target audiences. Complex Coordinated Attacks are uncommon, but as we consider active shooter events, car ramming, IED attacks or similar incidents, we realize that any one of them might be a precursor to a series of terrorist attacks targeting a community. NCBRT has created a questionnaire to ask about EM actions taken during suspected terrorist incidents. Please take a few minutes to answer this survey. This course has been offered more than 200 times around the country, and it is anticipated that after the update, it will continue to be very popular.
The Guardian
Responding to the threat of cyclones, the Hatkhola Women’s Squad in the Barishal region is leading rescue and clean-up operations as well as improving day-to-day living conditions for the community.
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Modern Diplomacy
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) will provide emergency response assistance to China to help fight the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). A related project document was signed by Ambassador WANG Qun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations in Vienna, and LI Yong, Director General of UNIDO.
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Homeland Security News Wire
In January 2019, more than 270 were killed, thousands of homes destroyed, and large tracts of agricultural land poisoned when Brazil’s Brumadinho dam collapsed, releasing tons of toxic sludge. Last week, a Brazilian judge accepted the prosecution’s argument that 16 employees of Brazilian mining giant Vale the company’s German safety auditor should stand trial for intentional homicide.
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NBC News
Saturated by days of heavy rain, Mississippi's Pearl River crested Monday and water levels are expected to fall later this week, the National Weather Service said, but flooding in the state and in Tennessee has affected hundreds of homes.
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The Associated Press via Press Herald
Britain issued severe flood warnings, advising of life-threatening danger after Storm Dennis dumped weeks’ worth of rain in some places. A woman was found dead after being swept away by the floodwaters, the storm’s third confirmed victim.
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USA Today
Weeks of heavy rain have inundated a large portion of the southern U.S., bringing near-record flooding to portions of Mississippi and Tennessee.
In Jackson, Mississippi, hundreds of residents either watched their homes flood over the weekend or worried their residence would soon be drenched as the Pearl River crested Monday at 36.8 feet, its third-highest level ever recorded – behind only 1979 and 1983.
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Homeland Security Today
This Activity Alert summarizes an incident to which CISA recently responded. It is being shared publicly to promote awareness and encourage mitigations by asset owner operators across all critical infrastructure sectors.
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