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Room rates and online reservations are now available online for the Westin Long Beach, the headquarters hotel for the IAEM Annual Conference, Nov. 10-15, 2017, Long Beach, California. The hotel and travel section of the IAEM Annual Conference website also provides information on transportation, restaurants, local attractions, and a FAQs page – all adding up to an exciting venue for IAEM conference attendees.
Manila Bulletin
To help strengthen public awareness on disaster risk and response, the Catholic Church plans to set up a church-based Disaster Risk Reduction and Management program in parishes in the Archdiocese of Manila and in dioceses in Metro Manila.
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Entries in the IAEM-Canada only award categories are being accepted through May 31, 2017, 5:00 p.m. EDT. Guidelines and entry forms are posted on the IAEM-Canada only awards page. Award categories include the IAEM-Canada Career Excellence Award, IAEM-Canada Emergency Management Volunteer Award, IAEM-Canada Prepared Community Award, and IAEM-Canada Merit Award. IAEM-Canada members also are encouraged to enter the IAEM-Global Awards categories, which are open to entrants worldwide, with no entry fee for IAEM members. If you have any questions about IAEM-Canada Awards, please email iaemcanadamemberships@gmail.com. Questions about the IAEM-Global Awards should be emailed to Karen Thompson, IAEM awards staff liaison.
Global News
As the one-year anniversary of the Fort McMurray wildfire is upon us, the community is awaiting the results of three reviews of the fire response. As Reid Fiest reports, residents are eager to see the reports as they look back at May 2016.
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The Argus Observer
The Small Business Administration is now offering economic injury disaster loans to small businesses, small ag cooperatives and nonprofit organizations in Payette and Washington counties.
“These loans are intended to assist through the disaster recovery period,” an SBA said, helping those businesses meet financial obligations “that cannot be
met as a direct result of the disaster.”
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News.com.au
The state and federal governments have given more than $25 million to people across Queensland affected by Tropical Cyclone Debbie.
Almost 62,000 disaster relief and recovery payments have been made to families and individuals needing essential items such as food, medicine and clothing.
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IAEM
President Donald J. Trump on Apr. 28 announced an intent to appoint Brock Long of North Carolina as administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Long has more than 16 years of experience assisting and supporting local, state, and federal governments with building robust emergency management and public health preparedness programs. Since 2011, he has worked as executive vice president at Hagerty Consulting, where he provides strategic direction and leadership to the firm’s full complement of emergency management programs and professionals. From 2008-2011, he was director of Alabama’s Emergency Management Agency (AEMA), where he served as state coordinating officer for 14 disasters, including eight presidentially-declared events. He was on-scene state incident commander for the Alabama unified command during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Prior to this, he was a FEMA regional hurricane program manager, FEMA hurricane and evacuation liaison team leader, and statewide school safety coordinator for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.
IAEM
On May 1, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees released a bipartisan fiscal year (FY) 2017 omnibus appropriations bill (formally known as the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017) to fund federal operations through Sept. 30, 2017, the remainder of the current fiscal year. For the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the bipartisan budget agreement rejects proposed cuts to FEMA grants and maintains funding at FY 2016 levels. The agreement includes funding of $350 million for Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG), $690 million for firefighter assistance grants, and $1.3 billion for state and local assistance grants. FEMA’s disaster relief account is fully funded at $7.3 billion. Budget highlights are summarized here. IAEM members are encouraged to contact their Senators and Member of Congress to thank them for funding the EMPG program at the $350 million level in FY 2017, and urge them to maintain that same level of support for the program in FY 2018.
Los Angeles Times
The budget deal reached in Congress this week penciled in $10.2 million for an earthquake early warning system for California and the rest of the West Coast for the budget year that ends in September.
The funding represents an increase from the last fiscal year’s federal budget, which allocated $8.2 million for the system.
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Texas Tribune
Almost a decade after Hurricane Ike killed dozens of people and caused $30 billion in damage, a group of Texas politicians and business leaders say they finally have "all the support necessary" to break ground on a massive coastal barrier that would protect the Houston area from another devastating hurricane.
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IAEM
Entries in the IAEM-USA only award categories are being accepted through May 31, 2017, 5:00 p.m. EDT. Details are posted starting at www.iaem.com/Awards, with links to information about the 10 award categories that are open only to USA entrants. Click on the link to the award that you’re interested in entering to find guidelines, entry instructions, and entry forms. IAEM-USA is seeking nominations for the IAEM-USA Career Excellence Award, which recognizes a national leader who has made significant contributions throughout their career to promote and improve the EM profession in the United States. Nominations also are being sought for the IAEM-USA Academic Recognition Award, which is given to a U.S. academic leader or institution that has made a significant contribution to the formal education of students pursuing a career in emergency management. U.S. entrants also are encouraged to enter the IAEM-Global Awards Competition, which is open to entrants worldwide, with no entry fee for IAEM members. Questions about IAEM-Global and IAEM-USA Awards should be emailed to Karen Thompson, IAEM awards staff liaison.
Emergency Management
California state and federal agencies got a firsthand look at what tribes in Indian country would be facing during a flood, wildfire or other hazard at the Tribal Emergency Management Summit April 19 and 20 in Central California’s Tule River Indian Reservation and at the Eagle Mountain Casino.
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IAEM
There is still time to submit a feature article for the IAEM Bulletin special focus issue on “Vulnerable Populations & Emergency Management,” with the deadline a week away. 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. Please review the author guidelines, and email your 750-1,500 word article submissions or any questions about the special focus topic to Karen Thompson, editor, by May 10, 2017.
Campus Safety
Campus administrators know the importance of severe weather safety, and new technologies have made it easier than ever to predict and prepare for severe weather.
Those advancements are important because the number of preliminary reports of severe weather across the United States so far in 2017 is 5,372, more than double the average from the same period over the past 10 years.
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Forbes
Marshall Shepherd writes: As a meteorologist and professor of atmospheric sciences, I am very weather-attentive. This morning I am watching another weekend of potential severe weather in the United States. Wildfires have ravaged parts of Florida and even Georgia's iconic Okefenokee Swamp.
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Emergency Management
Attention to America’s immigration policies has intensified recently, with politicians and citizens wrangling over whether and how to control the number of foreigners entering the country. Emergency managers, however, largely don’t believe immigration is their issue. Except, in a sense, it is.
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NBC News
The U.S. government is slacking off on preparing for the next big pandemic or biological terrorism attack and is not only endangering its citizens but also missing out on a great opportunity to score political points, experts said.
Protecting the United States from the next pandemic of killer flu, or from a bioterrorist strike, is something Republicans and Democrats can easily agree on, a top congressional appropriator told a biodefense panel.
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Rappler
In light of the recent earthquakes around the country and considering how the weather has become more and more unpredictable, keeping yourself informed is of paramount importance.
In this day and age, you’d be hard pressed to find an excuse to not be in the know, what with the boom of social media and the “there’s an app for that” mentality.
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IAEM
IAEM is offering a four-part free virtual webinar series hosted by the Certification Commission to walk you through the requirements of the application. The next webinar is May 11, 2017, at 3:00 p.m. EDT. Details and registration link are available on the IAEM website.
IAEM
To better meet partner needs, the National Weather Service’s (NWS) tsunami warning centers have consolidated tsunami warning products on Tsunami.gov, which is now the official website for both warning centers. In conjunction with this change, responsibility for issuing U.S. domestic tsunami products for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands has shifted to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. This improves the consistency of services for the Caribbean, consolidating domestic and international Caribbean responsibilities under one warning center. U.S. tsunami warning center product users are encouraged to change all links and bookmarks to http://tsunami.gov/. This website also is the NWS’s primary source for tsunami information.
IAEM
Last week, IAEM-USA Region 5 Past President Dave Christensen, IPEM, received the Illinois Emergency Services Management Association Lee Shannon III Lifetime Achievement Award. This award is presented in recognition “for unwavering services and relentless dedication to IESMA in its pursuit to professionally support emergency management programs throughout the state of Illinois.” In presenting the award, IESMA President Ron Graziano noted, “This recipient’s name has come to be synonymous with emergency management across the state of Illinois. During my past year as IESMA president, there have been very few conversations I have had about challenges the emergency management profession and/or programs face where his name was not mentioned.” Christensen’s many accomplishments include: involvement in the development of the Illinois Terrorist Task Force (ITTF); service as original co-chair of the ITTF Emergency Management Committee; and service as president of IESMA. As a result of his efforts and outreach, emergency management programs across the state directly benefited from more than $12.975 million in unmatched grant funding, and 141 EOCs received a combined $4.75 million in unmatched grant funding. He is responsible for the procurement of more than 70 emergency generators strategically placed across the state. Funding for two mobile command trailers, seven mobile support trailers, and more than a decade of preparedness training for a statewide Emergency Management Assistance Team might have been enough for most people. However, when Christensen realized there was a need for a centralized answering point for emergency management, he again rolled up his sleeves and made that happen too. IAEM congratulates our member, Dave Christensen, on this well-deserved honor.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute (EMI) will begin its application period on Mar. 1 for the National Emergency Management Advanced Academy (NEMAA). The NEMAA program includes four resident courses, each five days in duration, and completed during the current Federal fiscal year. Attendance at each course is required, and the courses must be attended in sequential order. The program is designed for emergency managers with a minimum of three years of experience in an emergency management position. The target audience includes government, non-profit voluntary organizations, and private sector managers responsible for emergency management or homeland security. Classes begin in October, November or December 2017, and are taken sequentially through September 2018. Applications will be accepted from Mar. 1-May 31, 2017, with selections in June and announcements in July. For more information, contact fema-empp-advanced-academy@fema.dhs.gov.
IAEM
FEMA's U.S. Fire Administration, the DHS Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and the U.S. Department of Justice are working together to highlight 2017 Arson Awareness Week (May 7-13, 2017), which this year is focusing on preventing arson at houses of worship. The agencies are co-hosting a webinar on May 9, 2017, 2:00-3:00 p.m. on “Fire Safety and Arson Awareness for Faith-Based and Community Organizations.” The event will highlight federal resources and practices that can help community organizations and houses of worship improve fire safety and arson awareness collaborations with the first responder community. Topics covered will include arson awareness, fire safety, wildfire safety, and emergency operations planning. The webinar is a second offering of one provided on Apr. 25, 2017. Register online.
IAEM
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Association (NOAA) will present the second webinar in its four-part 2017 Hurricane Season Awareness Series on May 9, 2017, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT. The topic is “Storm Surge Warnings and Graphics.” Hurricane Specialist Robbie Berg will demonstrate how the National Hurricane Center makes surge forecasts and describe and provide examples of new real-time storm surge products that are available during hurricane threats along the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic coastlines. Berg also will discuss the new NWS Storm Surge Watch and Warning that will debut in the 2017 hurricane season. Register online, and obtain complete information on the series.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Assistance Division (HMA) is offering a webinar on Cost Estimating Principles for Hazard Mitigation Assistance Applications. The webinar, scheduled for May 10, 2017, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT, will share cost estimating principles for the three HMA grant application programs: Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM), Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) and Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP). Access the webinar online.
IAEM
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) begins a three part-webinar series on May 10, 2017, 1:00-2:00 p.m. EDT, for emergency management agencies and drinking water and wastewater utilities to learn how to increase resilience and improve emergency response efforts. Part 1, “Why should I care about collaboration,” will provide an overview of the critical interdependencies between the water and emergency services sectors. It will include speakers from an emergency management agency and a water utility to discuss how their organizations have benefited from mutual collaboration. Download webinar flyer for details, and register online.
Inquirer.net
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake caused injuries and minor structural damage here and in General Santos City after it struck at sea some 53 kilometers southwest of Sarangani Island in Davao Occidental, authorities said.
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Relief Web
At least 24 people were killed when a landslide swept through village in southern Kyrgyzstan.
The Emergencies Ministry says there are nine children among those buried alive in the village of Ayu in the country's Osh region on April 29.
Dozens of rescue workers are at the scene looking for survivors.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The wildfire that started in southeast Georgia earlier this month has burned almost one-fourth of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, officials said Saturday.
Known as the West Mims Fire, the blaze now has torched 94,664 acres and is just 8 percent contained, according to a statement from the team that is battling the blaze.
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Taiwan News
An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck off the coast of southeast Taiwan at 9:57 a.m. on Sunday, which was centered about 17.7 kilometers northeast of Taitung County. It struck at a depth of 96 kilometers, according to Central Weather Bureau data.
Light to moderate shaking was felt in parts of the island.
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Los Angeles Times
At least 13 people were killed in weekend storms that brought tornadoes and flooding to the South and Midwest and also dumped a rare late-season blizzard in western Kansas.
The victims included four people killed when tornadoes hit several small towns in East Texas, and three killed by flooding and winds in Arkansas, where officials said two more people were missing.
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The Associated Press via USA Today
The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.3 aftershock has shaken the corner of British Columbia, near the boundary with Alaska, nearly two hours after a magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit the same area.
Geophysicist Amy Vaughan says it's not completely uncommon for an aftershock to be larger than the triggering quake, though normally the following quakes are smaller.
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