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Rappler
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) urges young Filipinos to join the disaster management training in Japan, an initiative meant to boost the capacity of the Philippines on disaster preparedness and response.
The training called JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program is part of JICA’s development cooperation with the Philippines that also aims to share Japan’s knowledge and experiences to address needs of Japan’s partner countries.
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Irin News
How do you relocate a population bigger than Russia and Germany combined? Look to China over the next decade as it plans to resettle 250 million people in a bid to fight poverty, prioritizing the first relocations for those living in areas prone to natural disasters.
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Manila Bulletin
A lady lawmaker has renewed call for heightened earthquake preparedness following several temblors that have hit the country, particularly in Southern Luzon, in the past days.
Senator Loren Legarda reminded that disaster management agencies, local government units, community leaders, and even citizens should prepare for the Big One, or the projected 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Metro Manila.
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IAEM
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on Apr. 6 directed all Canadian wireless service providers to implement a wireless public alerting system on their long-term evolution (LTE) networks by April 2018. This system will allow emergency management officials, such as fire marshals and police agencies, to warn Canadians on their mobile devices of dangers to life and property. The alerts will be sent to mobile devices connected to LTE networks, which are available to more than 97% of Canadians. Service providers also have been tasked by the CRTC to work with their federal, provincial and territorial counterparts to develop an awareness campaign and test schedule. Learn more.
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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.
The Bahamas Weekly
The Office of Disaster Management — Commonwealth of Dominica has been awarded Euro 9,640.00 to facilitate a review, consultation and update of their draft Comprehensive Disaster Management Legislation. The grant funds were awarded by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency in March 2017 under the Country Directed Fund, which is financed by the European Union through the ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Management in the CARIFORUM Programme.
NOAA
The 2017 hurricane season is fast approaching, and NOAA and the U.S. Air Force Reserve will host a series of events, including tours aboard a hurricane hunter aircraft to help communities in Mexico and the Caribbean prepare for the season and weather the coming storms.
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Jamaica Observer
Jamaica’s communication capability before, during and after disasters is being significantly boosted through a $12.58-million grant from the Government of Japan.
The provision, to be disbursed to the Government of Jamaica over four years, will be used to purchase and procure equipment and other inputs to implement the "Improvement of Emergency Communication System Project."
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BBC News
In Australia, a land of wild extremes, recent flooding caused by Cyclone Debbie has killed at least six people, including a mother who drowned beside her two young children when their car veered into a swollen river.
Natural disaster consequences can be unpredictable. When Debbie, a category four system, slammed into the Queensland coast 11 days ago, remarkably there were no fatalities in its immediate aftermath and few serious injuries were reported.
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NZ Herald News
Cyclone Cook could be about to bring more heartache to flood-devastated parts of the country.
The Category 3 cyclone was early this morning just south of New Caledonia, where it passed overnight and, according to overseas media, injured four and left thousands without power.
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Stuff.co.nz
James Katte was completely unprepared for the wall of soil and rubbish that barreled into his Auckland home on Tuesday night.
The former furniture maker and his partner Therese were fretting about torrential rain falling outside their apartment block in Kohimarama, in the city's inner eastern suburbs.
"The lights flickered and my partner said 'just in case the power goes out we should get our torches ready'. Then, next minute, soil came crashing in."
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IAEM
IAEM-USA, on Apr. 12, submitted comments on a FEMA’s concept of a Public Assistance deductible that would condition states' receipt of FEMA reimbursement for the repair and replacement of public infrastructure damaged by a disaster event. The primary intent of the deductible concept, according to FEMA, is to incentivize greater state resilience to future disasters, thereby reducing future disaster costs nationally. On Jan. 20, 2016, FEMA published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) seeking comments on a Public Assistance deductible concept. The ANPRM provided a general description of the concept that many commenters found insufficient to provide meaningful comment. In an effort to offer the public a more detailed deductible concept upon which to provide additional feedback, FEMA is issuing a supplemental ANPRM (SANPRM) that presents a conceptual deductible program, including a methodology for calculating deductible amounts based on a combination of each state's fiscal capacity and disaster risk, a proposed credit structure to reward states for undertaking resilience-building activities, and a description of how FEMA could consider implementing the program. After considering feedback, FEMA may expand on or redevelop this concept.
IAEM
FEMA issued an update to the Public Assistance Program and Policy Guide (PAPPG), effective for all disasters declared on or after Apr. 1, 2017. The Public Assistance Program and Policy Guide (PAPPG) combines all Public Assistance (PA) policy into one consolidated document. The PAPPG also includes an overview of the PA Program implementation process, with links to other publications and documents that provide additional process details. Changes include: reference to the regulatory deadline for requesting that additional areas be added to a declaration; adding specific documentation necessary to support emergency, non-congregate sheltering; and moving, refining, and adding language pertaining to facilities located in or impacting a floodplain. Email questions or comments to FEMA-PAPolicy@fema.dhs.gov.
Emergency Management
Here's some welcome news for most Floridians: The upcoming hurricane season could be slightly below average.
In fact, we could see as few as four hurricanes.
An early forecast from scientists at Colorado State University's Tropical Meteorology Project concluded that a weak or moderate El Niño is likely by the height of the Atlantic hurricane season, along with cooling temperatures in the tropical Atlantic and the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Washington Examiner
A group of bipartisan lawmakers, including 13 from Florida, which suffered Zika outbreaks last year, wants Congress to create a fund to quickly fight diseases.
The group of 20 House members wants Congress to provide $300 million for a fund that responds swiftly to outbreaks. The request, sent in a letter to congressional appropriators, comes after Congress debated how much money to provide to fight the Zika virus last year.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has prepared a draft nationwide programmatic environmental impact statement (NPEIS) evaluating the environmental impacts of proposed modifications to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The draft includes an evaluation of the potential impacts to the natural and human environment associated with the NFIP at a nationwide programmatic level, as well as an evaluation of impacts of alternative proposals to modify the NFIP. Public meetings and public outreach opportunities will be held during the comment period on the Draft NPEIS. The draft NPEIS is available online, with the option of making online comments, and the deadline for comments is June 6, 2017. During the public comment period, FEMA will host several in-person public meetings and online webinars to receive comments on the Draft NPEIS. Meeting locations and times are listed on the project website.
IAEM
Entries in the IAEM-Global, IAEM-USA, and IAEM-Canada Awards Competitions are being accepted through May 31, 2017, 5:00 p.m. EDT. Details are posted on the IAEM Awards home page at www.iaem.com/Awards, including guidelines, entry instructions, and entry forms. There are many categories in the competitions, but this week we’re focusing on the IAEM-Global Award categories, which include: the Business & Industry Preparedness Award; the Partners in Preparedness Award; the Public Awareness Awards (three divisions); the Technology & Innovation Awards (three divisions); the Student of the Year Award; and the Student Ally of the Year Award. These six categories are open to entries worldwide. Entrants will compete at the IAEM geographic council level first, with the council level winners going on to compete at the Global level. The competition is open to all, but IAEM members can enter at no charge. If you have any questions, please contact Karen Thompson, awards staff liaison.
IAEM
The IAEM-Global Editorial Work Group seeks articles for a special focus issue of the IAEM Bulletin, which will focus on the topic of “Vulnerable Populations & Emergency Management.” Articles might include, but are not limited to: how we can help to prepare vulnerable populations for disasters; what it means to be part of a vulnerable population in your area (globally); what members of vulnerable populations are doing to prepare themselves; what emergency managers are doing to protect vulnerable populations in their jurisdictions. Note: We’re deliberately not defining “vulnerable populations” – we’re letting the authors define this. We hope to get article submissions that each focus on one of the many groups that are vulnerable, so that we have a variety of ideas or solutions for the various groups. Articles could deal with anything from latchkey kids to senior citizens to those who are disabled and/or have access issues. Please review the author guidelines, and email your article submissions to Karen Thompson, editor, by May 10, 2017.
Emergency Management
Former Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Team of Teams is an excellent book about leadership and the need to adapt to changing circumstances. In the book, he explains how the U.S. Special Operations Task Force in Iraq had to become a more nimble and networked organization to combat al-Qaida. Many of the lessons and strategies discussed are directly relatable to other disciplines, including emergency management.
Route Fifty
The city of Dallas has brought in help from Federal Communication Commission to assist in its investigation of a hacking incident late Friday night where all of the city’s 156 outdoor emergency sirens were set off and wailed for about an hour before authorities could take the system offline early Saturday.
The incident prompted the city’s 9-1-1 system to be flooded with phone calls.
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Nextgov
A cadre of shadowy criminal hackers seizes control of an energy plant. They give themselves administrator privileges and lock the genuine administrators out along with everyone else. Then, they threaten to trigger a major leak or explosion if the plant owners don’t pay up: $50 million in bitcoin.
The story sounds like a fantastical Hollywood plot. It’s basically a digital-age riff on the 1965 James Bond Film “Thunderball” and the 1997 spoof “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.”
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UW Today
The U.S. Geological Survey and university, public and private partners held an event April 10 at the University of Washington to introduce the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning program as a unified, West Coast-wide system. The event also introduced the first pilot uses of the earthquake early warning in Washington and Oregon.
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Radio Magazine
One of the advantages of radio that we broadcasters often tout is our ability to stay on-air, delivering news and information to our listeners, after large local disasters. At the same time, we usually point to examples in which cell networks fail because of local power issues, or over-use.
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Euronews
“This disaster scene is a simulation. We’re in Italy in a fire brigade training center. Today, robots are being tested by researchers. Their mission: to help the rescuers.”
After industrial accidents or natural disasters, the collection of information is crucial and robots can be precious allies to assist with this.
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IAEM
Join us for the start of the Certification Webinar Series – a four-part free virtual offering – beginning today, Apr. 13, 2017, at 3:00 p.m. EDT. Hosted by Certification Commission members, this series will help potential applicants understand all requirements and the ins and outs of the application process. Register online.
IAEM
IAEM has just added a new Certification Prep Course and Group Exam offering to its list. It will be held at the National Homeland Security Conference on Monday, June 5, 2017, in Buffalo, New York. Register through the IAEM website. The Preparatory Course is a unique in-person opportunity to acquire more personalized help through the certification application process as well as review sample test questions. IAEM-USA President Lanita Lloyd, CEM, will teach this course. There will be time for questions and answers during the session.
IAEM
The Certification Commission is looking for several CEMs to fill openings for the Class of 2020, serving from Jan. 1, 2018 until Dec. 31, 2020. More information about the requirements and application process is available on the IAEM website. The application deadline is June 1, 2017.
IAEM
The George Washington University’s Center for Cyber & Homeland Security and Europol recently published a paper, “Responding to Cybercrime at Scale: Operation Avalanche – a Case Study.” Written by Robert Wainwright, director, Europol, and Frank J. Ciluffo, director, Center for Cyber & Homeland Security, this issue brief focuses on Operation Avalanche, in which an international coalition of law enforcement agencies and private sector partners neutralized one of the most sophisticated criminal syndicates in history. This is the most impressive in a recent string of cross-border, law enforcement-led initiatives that has illustrated the importance of organizing responses to vast cybercrime networks based on the unique aspects of their business models.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Individual & Community Preparedness Division is launching “You Are the Help Until Help Arrives (Until Help Arrives),” a new program dedicated to educating and empowering the public to take action and provide lifesaving care before professional help arrives. This program encourages the public to take these five steps in situations where someone may have a life-threatening injury due to trauma: call 9-1-1; protect the injured from harm; stop bleeding; position the injured so they can breathe; and provide comfort. Until Help Arrives includes: an interactive video, a 25-minute web-based training course explaining the steps people can take to help someone with life-threatening injuries, and materials for a hands-on, instructor-led training course that can be used to provide in-person training to communities across the country. Please visit www.ready.gov/untilhelparrives to learn more about these five simple steps, and share this critical information with others. Download launch letter.
The Ranger
The coordinator for college risk management appeared as a guest at the March 24 Faculty Senate meeting to announce new drill guidelines and listen to faculty concerns.
Janae Johnson is the first risk management coordinator at this college. Her position was introduced this semester to prioritize safety and emergencies.
Northwest Vista College followed with the new position, and Northeast Lakeview is looking into hiring someone to fill the new college position, Johnson said.
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IAEM
Put the next IAEM Think Tank on your calendar for Thursday, Apr. 20, 2017, from 1:00-2:30 p.m. EDT, and plan to join the discussion on “Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) – the How, Why and the Future.” Drones or UAS are an emerging technology with great potential. In the past, they have been associated with their use in military and intelligence operations. However, small drones or UAS have become readily available, inexpensive, easy to operate, and highly versatile, which has resulted in a major increase in their use by hobbyist and recreational flyers. This IAEM Think Tank will explore the use of UAS or drones, including the pros and cons of using them in emergency management. Rich Serino will moderate the panel, composed of: Aimee Binning, Albany County (Wyoming) emergency management coordinator; Captain Frank W. Dreckman, Fort Collins Fire Department (Colorado) Drone Team trainer and coordinator; and Lieutenant Adam Smith, Colorado State University Police Department and member of the Regional Drone Team. Register now.
IAEM
Learn about the National Institute of Standards and Technology-funded Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning and how the center is developing a computational environment to help define the attributes that make communities resilient. The webinar, which will take place on Apr. 27, 2017, 9:00-11:00 a.m. MDT, can be accessed online. The overview will be followed by a session on the center’s recent special issue of Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure, which features six papers on the virtual community of Centerville. Modeling and analysis theory behind each paper will be explained, and a demonstration of the Interdependent Connecting Modeling Environment for Community Resilience (IN-CORE) will be presented. This event is open to the public and will be followed by a Q&A session.
NZ Herald News
Scientists have revealed incredible new insights into the 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake, including the most violent ground shaking ever recorded in New Zealand.
Readings taken at the North Canterbury town of Waiau during the November event proved a new record for vertical ground acceleration, reaching 30 times the force an airliner passenger feels at take-off.
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The Philippine Star
An “earthquake swarm” continued to hit Batangas yesterday as the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) advised people to stay calm but remain vigilant for the “Big One.”
Phivolcs director Renato Solidum said an earthquake swarm has been going on since Tuesday last week, and seismologists have recorded over 1,000 aftershocks, including Saturday’s four “moderately sized” tremors.
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The Associated Press via SF Gate
Colombian officials on Friday formally abandoned the search for survivors of floods that killed at least 314 people in the small southern city of Mocoa, though 106 people remain listed as missing.
Emergency workers will turn to excavating roads and buildings, distributing aid and trying to avoid the outbreak of epidemics in the town, where water and power services remained cut a week after the avalanche of debris-filled water poured down from the mountains.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Firefighters are battling wildfires from the top of Florida near the Georgia line to Miami-Dade County in the south as the governor declared a state of emergency Tuesday.
Gov. Rick Scott said the proclamation will make it easier for state, regional and local agencies to "quickly work together to protect our families, visitors and communities" as authorities battle more than 100 wildfires around the state.
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Telesur TV
An earthquake of 5.1 magnitude hit El Salvador Monday, the strongest of more than 50 quakes that shook the country. So far one person is reported dead after a collapse on the Los Chorros road, the national police in Lourdes reported. Three injured people were also transferred to a hospital.
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