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IAEM
This is your last chance to be on the program at the IAEM 66th Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Oct. 19-24, 2018. The Poster Showcase is an opportunity for individuals to share their knowledge or findings obtained through research or experience in either a competitive or non-competitive division. All participants will present their posters to IAEM attendees during a special session. Learn more by reviewing the Poster Showcase Guidance. Submit your abstract by 5:00 p.m. EDT May 18, 2018, via the IAEM conference website.
IAEM
The 2018 Asia Risk and Resilience Conference (ARRC), “Corporate Governance, Risk, and Resilience: Planning in Action,” will take place Aug. 29-31, 2018, at the Hilton in Singapore. The event is co-organized by IAEM, BCP ASIA, and RIMAS. Rebranded from the 13-year running Asia Business Continuity Conference, the ARRC is a premier regional networking and knowledge-sharing platform for industry representatives and professionals from around the world to further their knowledge and get to know the trends in business continuity management, emergency management, enterprise risk management, and resiliency, as well as other related areas such as crisis management, disaster recovery, terrorism, and cybersecurity. Delegates come from Asian markets such as Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Taiwan.
IRIN
The April 25, 2015 earthquake and its aftershocks killed 9,000 people nationwide and left an estimated 3.5 million homeless. Reconstruction has generally been slow everywhere in Nepal, but advocates for survivors like 70-year-old Tamang say the homes of widowed and elderly women have largely been overlooked in the rebuilding process.
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UNI India
The National Disaster Management Authority is conducting a two-day national workshop on data requirements for Disaster Risk Reduction database, an official release said. The workshop is aimed at evolving consensus on disasters, thresholds and develop standardized templates for data collection and validation to ensure accuracy and quality.
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IAEM
“Tiger Dam™ is the first line of Defense” and should be used when preparing for flood or containment spills during an emergency, thus saving lives and the environment. It is a simple, cost-effective rapid deployment system designed to act as a temporary emergency dam. Our Tiger Dams™ cost half the price after the first use than sandbagging or other flooding/hazmat containment equipment used and leave no environmental footprint. U.S. Flood Control Corp. is a sponsor of the 2018 IAEM-Canada Emergency Management Leadership and Innovation Conference, June 5-8, in Calgary, Alberta. Register today, and visit with company representatives at exhibit booth 1 during the conference.
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Jamaica Observer
Jamaica will develop a public financial management policy for natural disaster risk, combined with a 10-year operational plan for its implementation that takes into account fiscal space and other limitations, according to Finance Minister Dr. Nigel Clarke.
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RNZ
The 2017-2018 season, which ran from the beginning of November to the end of April, recorded three cyclones — Gita, Hola and Fehi — but usually just one cyclone hits New Zealand every year.
Niwa climatologist Ben Noll said a marine heatwave, which has affected New Zealand's coastal waters, meant the cyclones weren't dying out as they headed south.
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IAEM
The deadline for article submissions on the theme of “Cybersecurity” has been extended to May 15, 2018. The IAEM Editorial Work Group is seeking the articles for an IAEM Bulletin special focus issue on cybersecurity, to be published in June 2018. Articles might include, but are not limited to: Cybersecurity 101 about securing your own security and how you protect your own assets; how you incorporate cybersecurity into your CEMP/EOP; a discussion of available Internet resources; how to coordinate cybersecurity among your response team; how to protect information in your EOC; preparing for cybersecurity incidents, vulnerabilities and risks associated with IOT (Internet of Things – including AV systems, HVAC, remote sensors, etc.), and best practices for designing and conducting cybersecurity exercises. These are just examples of articles. You may identify another aspect of cybersecurity as it relates to emergency management that you would like to write about. Article length is 750-1,500 words. Please refer to the author guidelines for details, and email any questions to Editor Karen Thompson.
IAEM
The 2018 IAEM Awards Competition entry period is now open, and you have a month left to enter. Visit www.iaem.com/Awards for details, guidelines, and entry forms. There are three groups of award categories: Global (for those in any location), Canada (only for Canadian entrants), and USA (only for U.S. entrants). The purpose of the IAEM Awards Competition is to recognize and honor persons who have made special or significant contributions to the field of emergency management and have represented the profession well by their outstanding performance. You are encouraged to participate and to share your achievements with your colleagues. Keep the entry deadline in mind: all award entries must be received by Friday, June 1, 2018, 5:00 p.m. ET.
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Forbes
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is one of the most important parts of the federal government’s efforts to keep us safe from hazardous weather. The meteorologists at this agency in Miami, Florida, work day and night to predict hurricanes before they come anywhere near land. They do a fantastic job forecasting tropical cyclones and their forecasts and products get better every year.
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IAEM
The EMAP 5-2019 Draft Emergency Management Standard has been revised by the EMAP Technical Committee and is being released for public comment. The 60-day public comment period will close on June 28, 2018. All public comments received will be adjudicated by the EMAP Standards Subcommittee in December 2018 and formally voted on by the EMAP Technical Committee in 2019. The standard is a rigorous yet scalable industry standard for emergency management programs. It is flexible in design so that programs of varying sizes, populations, risks, and resources can use it as a blueprint for improvement and can attain compliance with the standard. The standard was collaboratively developed through a series of working groups of emergency management stakeholders from government, business and other sectors, and continues to evolve to represent the best in emergency management. The standard is revised on a three-year cycle that consists of committee collaboration within the EMAP Standard Subcommittee, a public comment period, and support from the EMAP Technical Committee that provides recommendations to the EMAP Commission. Please click here to provide public comment on the draft Emergency Management Standard.
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Route Fifty
Maryland is best poised to respond to a public health crisis, while Nevada and Alaska are least prepared, according to a national index released earlier this month.
The National Health Security Preparedness Index measures states’ readiness to respond to health disasters, including natural disasters, terrorism and disease outbreaks — think Zika or Ebola.
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IAEM
The EMAP 2-2019 Draft Urban Search & Rescue Standard has been revised by the EMAP Technical Committee and is being released for public comment. The 60-day public comment period will close on June 28, 2018. All public comments received will be adjudicated by the EMAP Standards Workgroup in November 2018 and formally voted on by the EMAP Technical Committee in 2019. The Urban Search and Rescue Standard by EMAP is a scalable, yet rigorous, national standard for local, tribal, territorial, regional, state, national, non-governmental, private sector and international US&R Resources. It has been collaboratively developed through a series of Standard Workgroup meetings with stakeholders from all levels of government, business, and other sectors. The Urban Search and Rescue Standard by EMAP is dynamic and will continue to evolve to represent the best-combined knowledge, skills and abilities of US&R Resources nationwide. The Urban Search and Rescue Standard by EMAP is reviewed on a three-year review cycle that consists of committee collaboration within the EMAP Standards Workgroup, a public comment period, and support from the EMAP Technical Committee that provides recommendations to the EMAP Commission. Please click here to provide public comment on the draft Urban Search & Rescue Standard.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Concern over the potential imminent eruptions of Earth’s supervolcanoes, like Taupo in New Zealand or Yellowstone in the United States, may be quelled by the results of a new study suggesting that geological signs pointing to a catastrophic eruption would be clear far in advance.
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WESA-Radio
Pittsburgh’s unusually rough winter and spring — rapid freeze-thaw cycles paired with record-level rains — led to more than a dozen landslides. Various city agencies, including the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure and the Department of Public Works responded, gathering information about Pittsburgh’s hillside geology in the process.
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Emergency Management
There’s nothing like a dramatic chorus of sirens sounding around a city to announce looming disasters.
But Guilford County doesn’t have a siren system that could have warned people before a tornado struck east Greensboro on April 15.
And the county’s emergency management director says that’s not a bad thing — texts and emails are much more likely to break through the distractions and alert people that something wicked is headed this way.
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NBC News
From telescopes to heart stents and artificial muscles, origami has inspired all sorts of curiously innovative objects. Now a trio of Polish designers has won a major design competition for their proposal for an origami-inspired skyscraper that could be transported to a building site in folded form and then unfolded to its full height with help from a huge, built-in helium balloon.
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IAEM
The third webinar in the IAEM Certification Webinar Series is scheduled for Wednesday, May 9, 2018, 1:00-2:00 p.m. EDT. The webinar will cover experience, work history, and degree documentation. Register on the IAEM website. An on-demand recording will be posted on the IAEM website after May 9 for individuals unable to participate.
CBC News
Communities along the southern reaches of the St. John River in New Brunswick should brace for the worst flooding since 1973, emergency officials warned Tuesday afternoon.
"The residents in those regions have to be on high alert," said Greg MacCallum, director of the province's Emergency Measures Organization.
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Fire Fighter Nation
An abandoned building occupied by squatters in Sao Paulo caught fire and collapsed Tuesday, sending chunks of fiery debris crashing into neighboring buildings and surrounding streets.
Firefighters said at least one person had been killed in the collapse and that there could be more.
The building, a former headquarters of the federal police, caught fire around 1:30 a.m. local time. Firefighters set up a perimeter and worked to evacuate people.
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The Nation
A landslide killed nine people in a village in northern China on Monday, authorities said. The disaster occurred in the village of Caijiazhuang, Luliang municipal government in Shanxi province said on its official social media account. More than a hundred firefighters, medical workers and rescuers — some using earth-moving machinery — were sent to the site to search for survivors trapped under fallen earth.
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Thai Visa
The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has assured it is ready to provide assistance to any areas severely affected by heavy rains with Surat Thani the latest province to be impacted by a typhoon.
Several homes in Pun Pin district of Surat Thani were damaged after a typhoon lashed the area around Kilometer 18 of the Asia Highway. Homes in Saeng Dee Villa village had their roofs heavily damaged by the storm and many trees in the area were uprooted.
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The Star
Hiribae Mame stood waist-deep in water outside her wrecked house in eastern Kenya, one of around 200,000 people forced to flee by weeks of floods, landslides and heavy rains.
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