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IAEM
IAEM has two remaining open calls for speakers for the IAEM 68th Annual Conference & EMEX in Long Beach, California, Nov. 13-20, 2020. Get the complete details about the Poster Showcase and the EMvision Talks by viewing the informational flyers on the IAEM Conference website. The deadline to submit your proposal is June 1, 2020, 11:59:59 p.m. CDT.
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Defence Connect
The reality of COVID-19 has prompted Australia’s political and strategic apparatus to accept that the nation’s preparedness and resilience to an age of disruption in a globalised world is lacking. While the subject du jour – enhancing Australia’s national resilience, sovereignty and security – is alive and well, the debate means Australia will ultimately be the winner.
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Everbridge
With Everbridge's Community Engagement, governments are able to expand outreach through mobile keyword opt-ins. With Resident Connection, agencies are able to obtain verified mobile, landline and VoIP telephone records to use for emergency notifications and are uploaded into the Everbridge system.
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Homeland Security Today
Vector-control programs that keep disease-spreading bugs at bay are suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic as resources are pulled from critical control programs and social distancing cuts down the reach of treatment areas, warned public health experts.
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TNS via Governing
The continental United States has an electrical power system that "is reasonably stable and robust" compared with the grids of many other nations. In answers to questions, Yilu Liu, the Governor's Chair professor for Power Electronics at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 2009, indicated that operation of the U.S. electric grid is not seriously threatened by the coronavirus pandemic, lightning or cyberattacks.
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BCG is committed to helping you respond to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Our years of experience in the disaster and emergency management field make us a great partner for providing solutions to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and the challenges it presents.
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Homeland Security Today
As the nation and the world continues to fight against COVID-19, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) continues to work on products and other resources intended to help critical infrastructure stakeholders improve their resilience and reduce their exposure to COVID-19 related risks.
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Nextgov
President Trump has tasked the Secretary of Energy with issuing rules that would ban U.S. entities from procuring foreign equipment that the administration said could make the nation’s electricity systems vulnerable to cyberattacks. The order seeks to restrict the acquisition of electric equipment “designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of foreign adversaries.”
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Emergency management specialists across the world keep our communities safe and help them rebuild when disaster strikes. With UCF’s online Master of Emergency and Crisis Management, you’ll advance your skills in managing disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation - all from the comfort of your home. Learn more here.
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The Colorado Sun
How will America keep wildfire crews safe from coronavirus during what’s expected to be a tough season of blazes? A U.S. group instead put together broad guidelines to consider when sending crews to blazes, with agencies and firefighting groups in different parts of the country able to tailor them to fit their needs.
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TNS via Emergency Management
As forecasters predict higher-than-normal chances of large fires in Northern California this year — as well as the usual risk of “large significant” burning in Southern California — fire authorities are growing increasingly concerned over their ability to muster a large, healthy force of firefighters in the face of COVID-19.
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Homeland Securty Today
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), on behalf of the nation’s 3,000 local health departments, sent a joint request to Congress with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Association of Public Health Laboratories, Council and State and Territorial Epidemiologists, and National Coalition of STD Directors, highlighting the need for at least $7.6 billion in additional federal support to surge and support the contact tracing workforce across the country as part of the coronavirus response efforts.
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Optimum Seismic
California just experienced its deadliest and most destructive wildfire, ever. Nearly 14,000 homes, 530 commercial structures and 4,300 other buildings were destroyed in November when the Cal Fire ravaged the Butte County landscape, incinerating entire communities like the town of Paradise in its wake.
The devastation of lives and livelihoods lost is unfathomable. So too is the sheer scope of work needed to clear the charred debris before recovery can ever start.
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IAEM
The Pew Charitable Trusts this week published How States Pay for Natural Disasters in an Era of Rising Costs and its accompanying fact sheet of key findings of the report and questions for policymakers. This report is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the tools the 50 states and D.C. use to budget for disasters and state-by-state differences in how they’re applied. This research will serve as a helpful resource for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to better understand the tools states have to pay for rising disaster costs. This question feels more critical than ever as states confront these challenges amid an economic downturn, severely strained budgets, and discussions about changes to the federal-state partnership in disaster assistance that predate the pandemic.
IAEM
The IAEM Editorial Committee will publish the second 2020 special focus issue in June, on the topic of “Black Swan Events: Cybersecurity.” Cyber incidents are happening and will continue to occur. Our world is unique, and we have to embrace the reality of where we are and be ready to manage any emergency that arises. To survive and thrive, we must think in new ways, share resources, and work with new partners to forge new successes. We need to be ready to consider “non-traditional” solutions. Technology is vulnerable to cyber hacks, and the damage could be a whole lot more than the incidents we have already experienced. What have we learned from events that have already occurred to prepare our communities to face future cyber incidents? How will the challenges of cyber incidents become opportunities? The deadline for article submissions on cybersecurity is May 20, 2020. Details are posted online. Note: The April 2020 Bulletin was a special focus on pandemics, and it has been offered as a free download here. We will continue to consider article submissions on pandemics. Direct questions to Bulletin Editor Karen Thompson.
IAEM
The annual IAEM Awards Competition will open tomorrow, May 15, 2020. The purpose of the competition is to recognize and honor persons and organizations who have made special or significant contributions to the field of emergency management and have represented the profession well by their outstanding performance. If you are an IAEM member who has opted-in to receive email communications from IAEM Headquarters, you will receive an email announcement on May 15. The call for entries also will be posted on the IAEM Awards web page. The entry period will end on June 30, 2020, 5:00 p.m. EDT. Go online on May 15 to learn about the award categories and review the entry guidelines. If you have any questions, please direct them to Rebecca Campbell, IAEM awards staff liaison, at rcampbell@iaem.com.
The Associated Press
A top world health official warned that countries are essentially driving blind in reopening their economies without setting up strong contact tracing to beat back flare-ups of the coronavirus.
The warning came as France and Belgium emerged from lockdowns, the Netherlands sent children back to school, and many U.S. states pressed ahead by lifting business restrictions.
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Caribbean Life
A Caribbean man is now in charge of the world’s drive for developing strength against, and reducing risks from, disasters while positioning territories across the planet to quickly resume normal life following such catastrophes, either natural or manmade.
He is Jamaican-born Ronald Jackson who last month resigned his position of Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), to take up a post as Director of the United Nation’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery for Building Resilience Team (DRT), in Geneva.
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Emergency Management
Storms and hurricanes in the Galveston, Texas, area usually mean a packed EOC, but the invasion of the coronavirus has forced some major adjustments for public safety and emergency management personnel.
Hurricane season officially begins June 1, but the EOC in Galveston has been activated for months as storms pelted the area with heavy rainfall.
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IAEM
In a partnership to prevent and reduce the spread of COVID-19, the City of Tempe is working with scientists from Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute to study the city's wastewater. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is the science of studying community sewage for public health information. To better understand the science behind the wastewater data, a dashboard has been developed that displays emerging research about the “COVID-19 gene copies per liter” measured within five collection areas throughout the city. Learn more about this project on the Tempe government website.
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Homeland Security Today
An idea from Dr. James Ramsay, the founding coordinator of the Homeland Security program and founding chair of the Department of Security Studies and International Affairs at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, is for each high school across the nation to offer either an elective or mandatory class for all students that lasts for one semester and ends with them becoming certified first responders (CFRs). CFRs are trained in advanced first aid and lifesaving techniques and also have the added benefit of being well versed in the Incident Command System, National Incident Management System, and National Response Framework.
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IAEM
As organizations across the country plan for when and how to resume full operations while protecting the well-being and safety of their employees and communities, FEMA has created an Exercise Starter Kit to help organizations facilitate their own internal workshops based on reconstitution planning principles and the White House’s Guidelines for Opening Up America Again and a FEMA fact sheet on “Planning Considerations for Organizations in Reconstituting Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The kit for organizations and government agencies includes a fact sheet, sample slides and a facilitator guide with suggested questions.
IAEM
The FEMA Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) launched four new coronavirus (COVID-19) training videos. The first video provides an overview of COVID-19, to include information about its symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. The second video in the series includes information about managing patients with the virus. The third provides information about the movement and transport of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients. The final video is about treating patients in non-healthcare settings. All four COVID-19 training videos are available to view on YouTube.
The Atlantic
Any disaster would be horrific enough in isolation, but one striking the United States today, now home to a third of the world’s confirmed COVID-19 cases, would place a nightmarish gantlet of novel obstacles between first responders and saving the lives of the afflicted.
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Domestic Preparedness
Emergency management is everything to everybody, but it often lacks the glue that is so desperately needed to manage catastrophic events. This is likely the result of two common pitfalls that the profession has long suffered from, pitfalls that can begin as soon as one walks out of the meeting or training room door: apathy and atrophy.
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Domestic Preparedness
The issue of when or how to lift social distancing and isolation is a wicked problem. A “Wicked Problem” in policymaking defeats standard solutions because of the interaction between the wicked problem and its potential solutions.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Researchers are aiming to automatically analyze volcanic activities to develop early-warning models that could save the lives of people living near volcanoes. Machine learning has been used for pattern identification in speech recognition, and researchers say the same technique can be used to understand patterns of volcanic “behavior.”
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Austin American-Statesman
Westlake’s Athena Security Inc., which created a concealed weapon detection system with thermal imaging and artificial intelligence technology, is now applying some of the same technology to alert on fevers as the coronavirus threat continues.
Some airports and a hospital across the country have installed the temperature detection system, which Athena says is fast, frictionless and accurate within 0.3 degrees Celsius.
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PTI via The New Indian Express
Pakistan said it will use technology to identify coronavirus hotspots to enforce a "smart lockdown" as the country reported a record number of 2,870 coronavirus cases in a single day, taking the total number of infections to over 30,330 amid easing of the month-long lockdown.
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Biz Community
Drones can be useful in the battle against COVID-19 if it is used correctly. China's healthcare industry is an example of the successful implementation of drones against the virus.
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IAEM
MindEdge Learning, an online education company founded by Harvard and MIT educators, has partnered with IAEM to develop the online AEM®/CEM® Prep Course (U.S. version). The course, which can be purchased through the IAEM website, allows candidates to review the application process, study the exam materials, watch video commentary from Certified Emergency Managers, and access sample exam questions – including two full-length, 100-question practice exams.
The Daily Barometer
Oregon State University has just announced the hiring of Edgar Rodriguez for the role of interim associate vice president for public safety and chief of police, starting May 25.
Rodriguez currently works for Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., as the associate vice president and chief of public safety and emergency management, and has a collective 32 years of progressive law enforcement experience under his belt.
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IAEM
There is still time to register and participate in the webinar being hosted by IAEM and Climate Central today, May 14, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Fire experts, health professionals, meteorologists, and veteran reporters will discuss the 2020 fire season outlook and how to cover fires while COVID-19 protocols are in place. The workshop is divided into two parts, beginning with a discussion of climate, health and emergency operations. In part two, meteorologists and reporters will tackle the topic of covering science and fires. The one-hour workshop includes a live Q&A session. Register online to participate.
IAEM
The PSBTA will host a webinar today, May 14, 2020, 2:00-3:30 p.m. EDT, on communications in complex incidents. In the midst of an escalating COVID-19 pandemic response, the Salt Lake Valley was struck with a 5.7 earthquake. Complex hazardous materials incidents, collapsing structures, and medical responses taxed the land mobile radio (LMR) and commercial broadband networks. All tiers of government, from mayors to frontline response personnel, had to assess and communicate minute-to-minute status reports. While commercial cellular networks were congested due to heavy usage, agencies using FirstNet had reliable access and capacity on the FirstNet network. Dave Herrmann, Salt Lake City Fire IT specialist, and Dustin Dern, Unified Fire Authority battalion chief and operations section chief for the incident management team, will share their stories and experience with FirstNet in a large-scale event. Garett Doyle, regional manager with the FirstNet Program at AT&T, and Tracey Murdock, from the First Responder Network Authority, will discuss the earthquake response from the perspective of their respective agencies and address the future of FirstNet and the ongoing reinvestment and further development of the network. There is still time to register and participate in today’s webinar.
IAEM
Register now for the next webinar in the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) webinar and lecture series that is being presented on May 15, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. EDT. Decisions are being made every day to close and reopen the economy. Travel restrictions are in place in some areas but not in others, beaches are opening and/or ordered closed, barbershops and floral shops are on different reopening schedules, and orders have been issued and rescinded about wearing masks in public. Who gets to decide and why? This webinar, “Governmental Decision-Making During a Pandemic,” will discuss the power held at the federal, state, and local level for each of these decisions, how the power is being exercised, and the impact these decisions have on first responders and the people they serve. The panelists are: John Yoo, Heller Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley, and Dan Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley and author of the book, Disaster Law and Policy. The moderator will be Eileen Decker, former Los Angeles deputy mayor of homeland security and public safety and former U.S. attorney, Central District of California.
IAEM
The NWS Partners webinar is scheduled for May 15, 2020, at 2:00-3:30 p.m. EDT. The webinar provides an opportunity to engage directly with NWS leadership in the midst of this unprecedented time in our country. The webinar will include: NWS operational updates and contributions; partners sharing experiences, best practices, contributions from recent months; and questions and discussion. Online registration is required for participation.
IAEM
The IAEM-USA Disaster Recovery & Finance Caucus scheduled four additional offerings of the “COVID-19 Cost Recovery Webinar.” Caucus members will discuss the public assistance aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. These webinars will focus exclusively on FEMA’s Public Assistance funding for Category B, Emergency Protective measures. We will not be discussing any of the medical aspects, except as they may be eligible for FEMA funding. We also will not be discussing DHHS or CDC funding. The Apr. 28 and May 12 webinars have already taken place. The remaining two webinars will take place at 1:00-2:00 p.m. EDT on these dates: May 26, and June 9. Register online, and select which of the sessions you wish to attend. Download the webinar handout here. If you are not able to attend a session of this webinar, the recordings will be posted here, as well as on the IAEM COVID-19 Resources page.
The Hindu
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has issued a series of guidelines for restarting manufacturing industries after the lockdown period. Certain economic activities have already been allowed on gradual lifting of restrictions in some zones.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Of all the many varied impacts in a warming planet, sea level rise is one of the most straightforward to predict because sea water expands as it warms and because extra water is flowing from melting glaciers and ice sheets. Given the costs of flooded coastal cities, European Commission scientists suggest that it would save money in the long run to build improved sea defenses around 70% of the continent’s coastline.
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The Star
COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund chairperson Jane Karuku recently said everyone has a role to play to make the war on COVID-19 a success.
This rallying call is appropriate and timely to rope in as many people and organisations to mobilise resources needed to contain coronavirus and cushion the poor.
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The Associated Press
The virus arrived on the reservation in early March, when late winter winds were still blowing off the mesas and temperatures at dawn were often barely above freezing.
It was carried in from Tucson, doctors say, by a man who had been to a basketball tournament and then made the long drive back to a small town in the Navajo highlands.
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Malay Mail
Some 100 houses in Teluk Kumbar and Sungai Ara, near Balik Pulau, were hit by flash floods after heavy rain lashed several areas in Penang for more than two hours last night.
However, the flood victims were not evacuated to relief centers.
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