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IAEM
Tomorrow, Mar. 1, IAEM will start the conversion process to our new website and management system. You will not be able to access your member profile, register for events, or make any payments until Thursday, Mar. 7. Beginning on Mar. 7, members will be required to change their password to access their member profile and other member-only content. The password change also will be required by any IAEM non-members attempting to log into the IAEM Certification portal. It is important for everyone to review their communication options, and opt-in to tell IAEM what communications they wish to receive. These options will be in your member profile. Please bear with us during this transition. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Project Manager Chelsea Firth.
IAEM
The IAEM Editorial Work Group seeks articles for the first 2019 special focus issue of the IAEM Bulletin, “Honor the Past: The People We Remember.” Since we’re focusing on mentors for this first special focus issue, you may also include a photo of your mentor. Now is the time to honor the person who has influenced you the most in your emergency management career. The issue will be published in March 2019, with an extended article submission deadline of Mar. 4, 2019. There will be no additional deadline extension. Article length is 750-1,500 words; however, we will consider any submission of at least 500 words for this issue. Please refer to the IAEM Bulletin web page for details on all of the 2019 topics, including examples of articles, and email any questions to Editor Karen Thompson. You are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to thank your mentor for all that they have done or are still doing to make a difference in your professional life. Make sure that your mentor is recognized!
IAEM
On Mar. 5, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST, IAEM and Harvard NPLI will host a Think Tank call from the heart of the wildfires in California, on “FEMA Corps in Disasters – The Wildfire Experience.” We will discuss how local emergency management and FEMA Corps have aided in fire response and recovery. This year marks the 7th Anniversary of FEMA Corps, which Richard Serino created along with its founders while he was deputy administrator of FEMA. The discussion will include a few current and former FEMA Corps members, along with the founders of FEMA Corps, a county emergency manager, and the Red Cross vice president of disaster operations. Moderated by Rich Serino, the Think Tank panel will include Robert J. Fenton, Jr., FEMA Region IX administrator; Jennifer Lieb, FEMA Corps interagency liaison; and Caitland Stanbro, FEMA Corps program liaison. See speaker bios and register online today.
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IAEM
The call for speakers for breakout sessions closed on Feb. 15, but the IAEM call for abstracts for the Poster Showcase and the call for speakers for the popular EMvision Talks will be opening soon. Find out more on the conference website.
City News 1130
The British Columbia government wants to reassure you it will spend whatever it needs to fight wildfires this summer, as the amount of money budgeted falls well short of what has been spent over the past few years.
The budget this year has been bumped up to $101 million, but since 2012, the province has spent more than that on wildfires each year.
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Nextgov
The Homeland Security Department wants citizens to weigh in on its updated strategy for improving the country’s emergency communications network, which is chock-full of tech and cyber measures.
The latest National Emergency Communications Plan places a strong emphasis on bolstering public safety infrastructure against emerging digital threats and making it easier for organizations to share information across their disparate networks.
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IAEM
FEMA is accepting applicants for the Youth Preparedness Council. This program brings teens together from across the country who are interested and engaged in community preparedness. Council members are selected based on their dedication to public service, their efforts in making a difference in their communities and their potential to expand their impact as national leaders for emergency preparedness. Students in 8th through 11th grade are eligible to apply. Youth interested in applying to the Council must submit a completed application form, provide two letters of recommendation, and academic records. All applications and supporting materials must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. PT, Mar. 31. New council members will be announced in May. Visit the council’s webpage to access the application materials, read about the current Council members, and for more general information.
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Homeland Security Today
In September 2017, two major hurricanes—Irma and Maria—struck the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), causing billions of dollars in damage to its infrastructure, housing, and economy. FEMA is the lead federal agency responsible for assisting the USVI as it recovers from these natural disasters. Among other responsibilities, FEMA administers the Public Assistance program in partnership with the USVI territorial government, providing the USVI grant funding for response and recovery activities, including debris removal efforts, life-saving emergency protective measures, and the repair, replacement, or restoration of public infrastructure.
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Nature
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which has been without a permanent leader since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, is in the midst of a leadership shake-up.
Timothy Gallaudet, the oceanographer and retired US Navy rear admiral who has served as the agency’s acting head since October 2017, will be replaced by former industry scientist Neil Jacobs, according to an internal memo circulated on 25 February.
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FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI) is accepting applications from Mar. 1-May 31, 2019, for the National Emergency Management Advanced Academy and the National Emergency Management Executive Academy. The Advanced Academy addresses program management and oversight, effective communication, integrated collaboration, and strategic thinking skills. The target audience is mid-level managers who have a minimum of three years of experience in an emergency management position to include government, nonprofit, voluntary organization, and private sector leaders. The program consists of four resident courses conducted at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Classes begin in October 2019 and are ideally taken sequentially through September 2020. The Executive Academy engages, challenges, and enhances the talents of emergency management executives through critical thinking, visionary strategic planning, and negotiation and conflict resolution when applied to complex real-world problems. The Executive Academy consists of four resident sessions and a student capstone team project. Learn more about and apply to the Advanced Academy on the FEMA training website. Learn more about and apply to the Executive Academy online.
Government Executive
The National Weather Service is attempting to establish a cadre of meteorologists capable of performing a number of different tasks, making employees more agile and useful to leaders in local government relying upon their joint expertise.
The agency is looking to shift away from the more siloed workforce model it previously employed, while in the process ending its practice of requiring meteorologists to simply provide forecasts from their desks inside their offices.
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The Hill
A Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesperson says FEMA never received an order to halt aid to Californians affected by the state's deadly wildfires despite President Trump's claim in a tweet last month.
"Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen. Unless they get their act together, which is unlikely, I have ordered FEMA to send no more money," Trump tweeted in early January.
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Houston Chronicle
Hurricane Harvey’s greatest lingering toll was on Houstonians’ mental health, according to initial findings from a first-of-its-kind registry that surveyed people about the 2017 storm’s impact on their lives.
Nearly two-thirds of respondents to the registry, modeled on the one created in the aftermath of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, reported intrusive or unintended thoughts about the hurricane and its resulting flooding.
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Nextgov
The federal government could do more to get money into the hands of state leaders before major disasters strike, governors said Sunday.
When Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker took office in 2015, the state experienced snow 28 days in a row—prompting it to get serious about systemic vulnerability planning.
During the National Governors Association winter meeting, Baker’s message to the Federal Emergency Management Agency was to consider helping fund such planning ahead of disasters.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Climate change and negligent forest management are causing higher-intensity, faster-moving fires that can generate enough energy to evolve into erratic firestorms, known as pyroCbs, in the face of which first responders can do little.
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UPI
According to new wildfire models, climate change's influence on fire and vegetation could result in slightly smaller fires in the future.
Climate change effects vegetation and wildfire patterns, and changing wildfire behavior influences vegetation and climate. To better understand the relationship between these phenomena, scientists examined climate and wildfire interactions in the Sierra Nevada Mountains over the last decade.
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IAEM
FEMA, in partnership with organizations that collectively represent the emergency management profession, including IAEM, this week released Brooke Buddemeier’s PrepTalk “Saving Lives After a Nuclear Detonation,” the fifth PrepTalk release from the Sept. 6, 2018 symposium. Buddemeier is a certified health physicist in the Global Security Directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, providing technical leadership to deliver supporting science for radiological and nuclear terrorism risk assessments and response planning. In his PrepTalk, Buddemeier shares the importance of sheltering after a nuclear detonation and provides emergency managers with tools to help citizens, responders, and city officials get ready. Buddemeier’s PrepTalk, a discussion guide, and additional reference materials are available at www.fema.gov/preptalks/buddemeier. Additional PrepTalks from the Sept. 6, 2018 Symposium held in Washington, D.C. will be released in the coming months.
IAEM
FEMA’s National Exercise Division released new Exercise Starter Kits to provide tools for state, local, tribal, territorial, non-governmental, and private sector partners to conduct tabletop exercises. The new Exercise Starter Kits contain a situation manual, facilitator guide and briefing slides with scene-setting videos. Each kit includes sample scenarios and discussion questions that can be tailored to specific threats, as well as jurisdiction or organization specific resources, operational plans, and procedures to support desired exercise objectives. The kits are structured around scenario modules to support a four to six-hour tabletop exercise for four to 50 participants. The Exercise Starter Kits are available online and require an approved Preptoolkit account. Stakeholders can register by creating a username and password for system access. For more information on how to register, review the Preparedness Toolkit User Guide and select Registration and Sign-In.
Homeland Security News Wire
In 2011, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake all but decimated the Pacific Coast of Tohoku, Japan, including the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. A catastrophic meltdown ensued. Many tons of nuclear fuel, boiled down to a radioactive lava, corroded the steel surrounding the facility’s three reactors. Today, the cleanup effort is still projected to take several decades.
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Homeland Security News Wire
In traditional seismology, researchers studying how the earth moves in the moments before, during, and after an earthquake rely on sensors that cost tens of thousands of dollars to make and install underground. Now researchers have figured out a way to overcome these hurdles by turning parts of a 13,000-mile-long testbed of “dark fiber,” unused fiber-optic cable, owned by the DOE Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), into a highly sensitive seismic activity sensor that could potentially augment the performance of earthquake early warning systems currently being developed in the western United States.
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Los Angeles Times via VC Star
Earthquake early warnings can come as false alarms — but it’s better to be safer than sorry, researchers concluded in a new study.
Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Southern California and the California Institute of Technology worked on a research project to determine the limits of the accuracy of seismic warnings.
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IAEM
IAEM will be launching the online certification exam on Mar. 18, 2019. If you plan to take the exam after Mar. 18, please access the revised study guide to prepare for the exam. The resources have been updated, and new exam questions have been established. Further details about the online exam will be available on the IAEM website.
IAEM
As part of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard University, the project team, Leading Beyond Our Command (LBOC), is working to address an important challenge many emergency managers from both the public and private sectors face in a crisis: the lack of effective communication and coordination between emergency management systems and the private sectors. In order to address this challenge, the LBOC project team is gathering best practices from both the public and private sector and will develop a replicable framework and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for a Local Business Emergency Operations Center (LBEOC) that will be test piloted in Orange County, California. As a first step, a survey instrument has been constructed to learn from respondents about experiences that strengthened public-private sector communication and collaboration during a crisis. The simple survey should take no more than 10 minutes complete. Please respond by Mar. 8 using the appropriate survey for area of expertise: Public Sector Emergency Manager or Private Sector Partner.
IAEM
The 2019 Asia Risk & Resilience Conference has been scheduled for Aug. 28-29, 2019, with post-conference workshops on Aug. 30, 2019. Co-organizers are IAEM, Business Continuity Planning Asia Pte Ltd (BCP Asia), and the Risk and Insurance Management Association of Singapore (RIMAS). The conference and exhibition will be located at Sands Expo & Convention Centre at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. The theme of the conference will be “Sustainable Risk & Resilience Governance – Riding the Turbulent Economic & Technology Wave.” Register by Apr. 30 to obtain the early bird registration discount. The call for speakers closes today, Feb. 28, 2019.
IAEM
Please join leaders from the nation’s emergency management organizations for the next live taping of the PrepTalks Symposium on Apr. 23, 2019, in Sonoma County, California. Attendees will hear eight PrepTalks from subject matter experts and international thought leaders on issues confronting emergency managers today and in the future. Audience members also will be able to ask questions of the speakers. There is no cost to attend. Register today.
IAEM
FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI) will host “One Link, One Bridge, Many Voices” e-Forums at 3:00-4:00 p.m. EST each Wednesday in March. In these one-hour, moderated webinar panel discussions, EMI and the emergency management community will discuss matters of interest related to emergency management and national preparedness. During the forums, participants share their experiences in an informal exchange of ideas. EMI e-Forums are free of charge and available to anyone who wishes to participate. Connect online at https://fema.connectsolutions.com/emieforums, using conference call-in number 800-320-4330, PIN 107622. March EMI e-Forums include:
- Mar. 6: “Applying to Become a FEMA Reservist in Training.”
- Mar. 13: “Chat with EMI Deputy Superintendent Mike Sharon.”
- Mar. 20: “Women’s Herstory Month 2019: Celebrating Contributions of Women to the field of Emergency Management.”
- Mar. 27: “Tribal Training Partnerships in Arizona.”
Albawaba
The upcoming 6th Crisis and Emergency Management Conference, CEMC 2019, is set to explore issues critical in the crisis and disaster management sector, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence, AI, among other policies and frameworks designed to reduce.
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CDN
With fire being a common occurrence especially in thickly populated communities in Metro Cebu, the national government is partnering with local communities in coming up with fire hazard mapping and possible mitigations.
The FireCheck Project entitled: Urban Fire Hazard Mapping and Fire Spread Modelling envisions to “put out fire before it begins.”
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The Washington Post via Boston Globe
The United States was hit by a barrage of wild weather over the weekend. Tornadoes carved through the South, a blizzard buried the northern plains, and flash floods drenched the Tennessee Valley. But amid the busy weekend, the United States also was struck by something you might not be expecting this time of year: a typhoon.
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Citizen Tribune
French authorities say firefighters are trying to contain a wildfire that spread overnight near a small village on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
Authorities in Haute-Corse, the prefecture covering the northern part of the island, said strong winds fed 20 wildfires that started in several places on Saturday. More than 1,500 acres were burnt near the town of Calenzana but no damage was caused to houses and no serious injuries have been reported.
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The Ledger
Weekend storms raked parts of the Southeast, leaving deaths and injuries in their wake as a tornado smashed into a commercial district in a small Mississippi city and drenching rains fed a rising flood threat.
A woman was killed when a tornado hit Columbus, Mississippi, and a man died when he drove into floodwaters in Tennessee, officials said.
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USA Today
Ferocious winds from a potent "bomb cyclone" roared across the eastern United States, and 550,000 homes and businesses were still without power Monday.
At midday, nearly 80 million people were under high-wind warnings or advisories across parts of 14 states, according to the National Weather Service. At least 1,200 flights were canceled Monday, according to FlightAware.
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The Weather Channel
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador early Friday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.
The quake's epicenter was located about 70 miles east-southeast of Palora, Ecuador, at a depth of 82 miles, according to the report.
The earthquake that struck at 10:17 a.m. GMT had originally been reported as a magnitude 7.7, but was later adjusted to 7.5.
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