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Article submissions for the IAEM Bulletin special focus issue on “How Changing Standards and Certifications Are Impacting Emergency Management” must be received by Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. 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.
Odisha SunTimes
The private sector must play its role in disaster management in the country, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said. “When disaster strikes, the poor are the first to be affected as factories and plants shut down and the economy is hit,” Rijiju said at the inaugural session of an international conference on “When mountains move and waters rise: The health and housing dimensions.”
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Daily Times
Women are disproportionately vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change in the societies where their rights and socioeconomic status are not equal to those of men. Hence, empowerment of women is an important ingredient in building climate resilience, the chief of the National Disaster Management Authority said.
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Saskatoon Star Phoenix
Saskatchewan, Canada, is recalling firefighting crews two weeks earlier and hiring eight new crews as it prepares for what could be an early start to the wildfire season.
An air tanker and a bird-dog aircraft, which directs the operation of the air tankers, are scheduled to be ready by March 27.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Natural hazards cost Australia more than $6 billion each year, a figure predicted to more than triple in the next 30 years.
At the height of the disaster season, experts are calling on "chronically underinsured" Australians to mitigate risk by planning ahead.
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IAEM
The FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Awards highlight innovative local practices and achievements by recognizing individuals and organizations that made outstanding contributions toward making their communities safer, better prepared, and more resilient. The application period will open on Monday, Feb. 29.
IAEM
FEMA is requesting individuals who are interested in serving on the FEMA National Advisory Council (NAC) to apply to be considered for appointment. All appointments are for three-year terms starting in September 2016. All applications must be received by the close of business on March 16, 2016. The NAC is a federal advisory committee established to ensure effective and ongoing coordination of federal preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation for natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters. The NAC advises the FEMA Administrator on all aspects of emergency management frameworks, strategies, and plans while incorporating the whole community's input through appointed council members. Learn more.
Campus Safety
Before students make a decision on which college will be their home for the next four years, they — and their parents — want to know how safe it is.
Erik Stafford, Director of Higher Education Sales for Alertus Technologies, says students and parents often ask schools about campus threats, how security officials handle those threats and how the college informs attendees about them.
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Climate Home
Preventative measures taken by Fiji following a super storm in 2012 “significantly” lowered cyclone Winston’s death count this weekend, according to disaster officials.
The Category 5 storm left a trail of destruction from Saturday as winds reaching 180 miles per hour tore through the Pacific archipelago, destroying homes, roads and power lines.
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The Indianapolis Star
Soon after classes let out for lunch, Indiana's Wabash College officials fanned out onto the campus mall and told students to get inside.
This was not a drill.
Last week, law enforcement was searching for an employee suspected in a double homicide. But the students weren't told why they needed to seek shelter, and for some that uncertainty stirred anxiety as officers swept the campus.
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Infection Control Today
The World Health Organization has launched a global Strategic Response Framework and Joint Operations Plan to guide the international response to the spread of Zika virus infection and the neonatal malformations and neurological conditions associated with it.
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Becker's Hospital Review
The World Health Organization received considerable criticism for failing to respond promptly to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. To avoid making the same mistake again, WHO has launched a global emergency response plan to handle the spread of Zika virus infection and the birth defects thought to be associated with the tropical disease.
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Emergency Management
Strong forces are at work to make emergency alerts more mobile and precisely targeted. Long gone are days when a siren blasting a loud horn near and far was sufficient to spur people to action. Now, people want information that’s precise, pertains specifically to them and is available wherever they are regardless of what they’re doing.
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Nature
The apparent emergence of new and devastating Vibrio diseases in Latin America during significant El Niño events is striking. New microbiological, genomic and bioinformatic tools are providing us with evidence that El Niño may represent a long-distance corridor for waterborne diseases into the Americas from Asia.
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The Huffington Post
Just as the worst of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa seemed to be over, the mosquito-borne Zika virus has led to the declaration by WHO of a public health emergency of international concern following a steep rise in congenital malformations and neurological complications among new-born children of infected women.
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Pharmaceutical Processing
As world leaders grapple with containing the Zika virus, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa provides valuable lessons for how to respond to infectious disease epidemics, according to a policy report published by researchers at Princeton University and the Wellcome Trust.
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New Scientist
There’s a storm coming, Robbie Hood tells the room. It doesn’t have a name yet, but it’s moving eastward over the Pacific Ocean and will probably hit the U.S. this week.
Hood will be the first to know its course: At this very moment, one of her drones is flying right along with it, collecting data on the storm as it advances.
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Berkeley News
GPS instruments already in place around the world could provide more rapid and more accurate warning of a tsunami, allowing nearly 20 minutes more to evacuate coastal areas, UC Berkeley seismologists report. Current early-warning systems rely on networks of seismometers and can take more than 20 minutes to estimate the severity of an earthquake and the likely wave height of a tsunami.
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CNN Money
Atlas, the humanoid robot created by Alphabet company Boston Dynamics, can open doors, balance while walking through the snow, place objects on a shelf and pick itself up after being knocked down. The new version of Atlas is smaller and more nimble than its predecessor. At 5-feet, 9-inches tall and 180 pounds it's about 7 inches shorter and 120 pounds lighter than the first version. It's fully mobile too — the previous version had to be tethered to a computer.
Atlas was created to perform disaster recovery in places unsafe for humans.
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Science Alert
Understanding more about the science of hurricanes can help to forecast climate change and even save lives, but of course getting up close to one of these phenomenally powerful quirks of our weather system is fraught with danger.
That's why the University of Miami has spent some $45 million on an indoor laboratory capable of producing hurricanes up to a Category 5 level.
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HNGN
MyShake app developers point to the fact there are only a handful of traditional seismic detectors and geodetic networks around the world. On the other hand, smartphones are much more prevalent, and their accelerometers can be tapped to detect earthquakes. Smartphones are becoming more than just communication and entertainment devices, as they have started to serve more practical functions such as a disaster detection device.
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IAEM
The website listing of current Certified Emergency Managers (CEMs) and Associate Emergency Managers (AEMs) is updated after every CEM Commission review meeting or approximately three times a year. The latest lists, as of February 2016, have just been posted here. One version of the list includes current CEMs and AEMs ordered by last name. The other list orders current CEMs and AEMs by location. These listings also show the initial certification date. IAEM members can obtain additional information (including full contact information), by searching for certified professionals in the members-only IAEM member directory.
Newswise
Recent flooding in Missouri turned deadly and left many homes and businesses submerged in overflowing rivers. Hundreds of people were evacuated as many of their homes were under water. Often, children are the most vulnerable in natural disasters and require assistance and support long after they are affected.
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IAEM
BC Management, Inc., invites IAEM members to participate in its 6th Annual Event Impact Management Study, which is live through Mar. 31, 2016. This survey will be used to assess how specific events have impacted organizations by highlighting what was activated in times of an event, the impact to the business, the impact to the personnel, downtime as well as the estimated financial loss by event. Study participants will receive a complimentary report assessing the data findings collected from this annual study. Learn more.
Fire Engineering
The FY 2015 SAFER application period will open on Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 at 8 a.m. EST and will close on Friday, March 25, 2016 at 5 p.m. EST.
Begin preparing your application now by reviewing the Notice of Funding Opportunity and the technical assistance tools that are available.
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IAEM
FEMA announced the Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) for the FY 2016 Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) and Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grant programs. These two grant programs assist state, local, tribal and territorial governments in strengthening the nation's ability to reduce the potential cost of natural disasters to communities and their citizens. The NOFO for each program is posted on Grants.gov and contains the key program priorities and application requirements. Applications may be submitted beginning on March 15 and are due by 3:00 p.m. EDT on June 15, 2016. A one-hour webinar is scheduled on the following days to learn more about these opportunities. The session content is the same for both webinars. Both webinars will offer closed captioning and login information is below.
Thursday, February 25 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST)
• FEMA Adobe Connect:
https://fema.connectsolutions.com/fema-nofo/
• Conference Bridge: 1-800-320-4330, PIN 532822#
Monday, February 29 at 2:30 p.m. EST
• FEMA Adobe Connect:
https://fema.connectsolutions.com/fema-nofo/
• Conference Bridge: 1-800-320-4330, PIN 782802#
IAEM
Disaster Forum 2016, to take place May 9-12, 2016, in Banff, Alberta, Canada, will bring together renowned keynote speakers and diverse sessions that deliver current and practical information in many disciplines. Leading experts in risk management will address upcoming issues and trends in the industry and share their experiences, perspectives, and lessons learned from past events. This event will focus on the presentation of information that attendees will be able to use at home to improve risk management in their organizations. Learn more.
IAEM
The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH)'s Disaster Health Education Symposium, “Innovations for Tomorrow,” will bring together health professionals from across the country who wish to enhance their knowledge of promising approaches, science and practice for education and training in disaster medicine and public health. There is no cost to attend this workshop. News on registration and poster submission will be available in the near future on the NCDMPH website. Be sure to follow the conversation on Twitter at #DHES2016.
BBC News
The death toll in Fiji has jumped to 42 amid fears for remote areas and islands yet to be reached by relief teams, days after a devastating cyclone.
Cyclone Winston, thought to be one of the strongest storms to hit the Southern Hemisphere, left 8,500 sheltering in evacuation centres.
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The Conversation
The magnitude 5.7 earthquake was centered approximately eight kilometers offshore on a moderately dipping reverse fault. Earthquakes of this size typically result from fault ruptures about five to seven kilometers long, with up to about a meter of seismic slip.
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BNO News
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 has struck the Indian Ocean between Antarctica and Australia, seismologists say. No tsunami warnings have been issued. The earthquake, which struck at about 5:08 a.m. Sydney time on Wednesday, was centered about 282 miles northeast of the French scientific station Dumont d'Urville in Antarctica, or about 1,405 miles south of Hobart on Tasmania.
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USA Today
At least three people were killed Tuesday night as strong storms blasted through the southern U.S.
One death was reported in Lamar County, Mississippi, according to the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson.
Lamar County Coroner Cody Creel confirmed one fatality in Lamar County as a result of the storms that passed through.
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The Associated Press via ABC News
Only shriveled carrots and potatoes grow in Carole Joseph's small vegetable plot. The family's chickens are long gone. She sold her only tools to buy food, then the wooden bed she shared with her children. The family now sleeps on the floor of their shack.
All that's left to sell are the pots she uses to cook over a fire pit, when there's something to eat.
WMAQ-TV
Dangerously high wind gusts were reported across the Chicago area Friday, some reaching near hurricane levels.
The highest winds were reported in Southwest Douglas Park, which saw gusts peak at 72 mph, according to the National Weather Service. Wind gusts for a category one hurricane begin at 74 mph.
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CNN
After a heat spell brought record-breaking high temperatures to the central United States, wildfires burned about 40,000 acres in Oklahoma on Thursday, Michelle Finch-Walker with the state forestry agency said.
"We haven't had one of these in the last few years," said Mark Goeller, the Oklahoma Forestry Services' fire management chief, told CNN. "Fires are going to burn all night."
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The Associated Press via The Washington Times
A lack of snow in interior Alaska helped the state’s first wildfire of 2016 to burn on open tundra.
The Alaska Division of Forestry says in a statement that the fire started and was extinguished Monday on military land about 10 miles south of Delta Junction.
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