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The 2019 IAEM Awards Competition entry period ends in eight days. Don’t miss this opportunity to be recognized for your achievements, or to nominate organizations or people who have made significant contributions to the field of emergency management and should be recognized for their excellent performance. Award winners will be announced in a formal awards presentation at the conference and will be featured in the awards showcase. All winners also will receive a $315 discount toward their IAEM 2019 Annual Conference & EMEX registration fee. There is no entry fee for IAEM members. All award guidelines and official entry forms are posted on the IAEM website at www.iaem.org/awards. Be sure to read the guidelines carefully, and pay close attention to content requirements, format and word length specifications, before submitting your entries by May 31, 2019, 5:00 p.m. EDT, via email to Karen Thompson.
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The IAEM Editorial Work Group has issued a call for articles for the next special focus issue on the theme of “What We Should Do Now to Shape the Future.” Here are a few ideas for articles that could be written on this theme: climate change and technology, managing a future pandemic; preparing now for warning/alert issues of the future; helping to prevent disasters that might occur in certain areas (dam safety, earthquakes, etc.); and the most important thing that we should be preparing for right now (and why). There are other ideas on the IAEM Bulletin web page, or you may write an article on another topic that fits into the special focus issue theme. If you have not written for the IAEM Bulletin previously, please read the author guidelines. Email your article (750-1,500 words) to Bulletin Editor Karen Thompson no later than July 10, 2019. We publish four special focus issues a year, and the other eight issues of the monthly Bulletin include articles on a wide variety of issues important to IAEM members. Therefore, we are always looking for articles for the Bulletin, and submissions are welcome at any time.
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Full-time undergraduate students and full- and part-time graduate students working towards degrees in emergency management, disaster management, or a closely related field, should apply now for the IAEM scholarship. Instructions for using the new application portal are available on the IAEM website. Don’t forget to review the appropriate application checklist to ensure that all materials and the essays are provided to complete your applications. The deadline to apply is June 12, 2019. Questions may be directed to Scholarship Program Director Dawn Shiley.
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On June 4-7, 2019, Canadian emergency management professionals will meet in Calgary, Alberta, for the 2019 IAEM-Canada Conference. Register today, May 23, 2019, to benefit from the early bird discounted registration fee. While you’re at the conference site, be sure to download the events flyer for details of networking activities. “This year’s theme, Bridging Public-Private Partnerships in Emergency Management, will highlight the value of collaboration between the sectors and emphasize the necessity of cooperation within multidisciplinary teams to successfully weather the storms of disasters and emergencies,” states Heather Tompson in an online article. “Recent flooding in the East and wildfires and spring storms in the West remind us that emergency management relies on collaboration and mutually beneficial partnerships in support of public safety in our respective communities.” Check out this and other articles in the new (and soon to be growing) collection of EM articles by IAEM-Canada members on the IAEM-Canada Resources page, part of a project by the IAEM-Canada Communications & Marketing team.
Digital Journal
Canadian provinces that have been affected by flooding in recent years are asking the federal government for nearly $138 million in funding to move or buy out homeowners in high-risk areas.
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IAEM-USA Past President Nick Crossley, CEM, CPM, director, Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Hamilton, County, Ohio, provided a written statement and delivered oral testimony before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, U.S. House of Representatives, on May 22, 2019, in Washington, D.C. The subcommittee was holding a hearing on “Disaster Preparedness: DRAA Implementation and FEMA Readiness.”
Governing
The Forest Service and its partners hope over the next decade to carry out a series of prescribed burns in Northern Colorado to protect communities and the river, which supplies water to about 300,000 people.
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Politico
Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby is caving on his demand to add a key parochial provision to a long-stalled disaster aid bill, potentially clearing the way for its passage later this week.
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Homeland Security Today
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan met with the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) on May 21 to discuss a range of homeland security issues and his priorities for the Department. During the public session, McAleenan announced a new HSAC tasking that is focused on the security and resiliency of houses of worship and faith-based organizations across the country.
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FEMA is seeking comments on the development and implementation of Disaster Recovery Reform Act (DRRA) Section 1234, National Public Infrastructure Pre-Disaster Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. The new program, Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC), is part of the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act which became law in October 2018. Communities from all levels of government and key stakeholders, including private businesses, citizens, vulnerable and at-risk populations, critical infrastructure sectors, and non-profit, academic, and philanthropic organizations are encouraged to provide comments. Comments will be accepted from May 20 through July 15, on FEMA IdealScale or by email. In June, FEMA will host a webinar series to provide an overview of the different topic areas that are important for the development of the BRIC program. This will be followed by an open conversation with stakeholders through the chat platform. Sessions include: June 6, Infrastructure Mitigation Projects and Community Lifelines; June 13, Hazard Mitigation Planning, Grant Application and Evaluation, and Risk Based Funding; June 20, Funding & Resource Management and Benefit-Cost Analysis; and June 25, Building Codes and Enforcement and Capacity and Capability. All webinars will be held from 2:00-4:00 p.m. EDT. For detailed information, a description of each session, and information on how to participate, visit the website.
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FEMA released the refreshed National Incident Management System (NIMS) Training Program for a 30-day National Engagement Period. This time provides an opportunity for interested parties to comment on the draft of the updated NIMS Training Program, so that it reflects the collective expertise and experience of the whole community. The National Engagement Period will conclude at 5:00 p.m. EDT June 21. Revisions of the program include training focus areas based on incident personnel’s position and responsibility. The focus areas include the Incident Command System, Joint Information System, Emergency Operation Center, and the Multiagency Coordination Group. FEMA will host a series of 60-minute engagement webinars to highlight key proposed changes to NIMS and answer participant questions about submitting feedback. All webinars are open to the whole community. To review the draft of the updated NIMS Training Program and for additional webinar information, visit the National Engagement website. To provide comments on the draft, complete the feedback form and submit to FEMA-NIMS@fema.dhs.gov by June 21.
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The Sacramento Bee
Officials in California are crying foul over a Trump administration plan to slash firefighting assistance payments to the state, which could amount to millions of dollars in lost income for fire departments. The U.S. Forest Service, in turn, is accusing the local fire departments in the state of over-billing the federal government as part of a federal-state partnership, the California Fire Assistance Agreement (CFAA), that was inked in 2015 and expires in 2020.
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Florida Today
Could portions of the Florida peninsula get drenched by catastrophic flooding like Hurricanes Harvey and Florence unleashed the last two years in Texas and the Carolinas? Yes — and not in the ways you might expect, National Weather Service meteorologists warn.
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Homeland Security Today
A third of security and mailroom professionals surveyed reported receiving a threat by mail over the past year while nearly half of all organizations still only screen some or none of their incoming letters and packages.
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Domestic Preparedness
As floods become more severe and more frequent, government authorities must invest in advanced technology platforms that take the guesswork out of crisis management. Since the consequences of flood events vary dramatically, the tools used to fight them – such as surveillance, connectivity, and situational awareness technologies – must be able to adapt to each unique situation.
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Science Alert
Researchers have pinpointed a previously unknown source of volcanoes in the extreme depths of Earth - in the transition zone between the upper and lower mantle. Until now, we thought we had a handle on the ways in which volcanoes form, welling up from the molten regions in the upper mantle beneath our planet's crust, but the new discovery takes things much farther down.
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Campus Safety
The Facility Guidelines Institute’s (FGI) Guidelines for Design and Construction requires healthcare organizations to develop a safety risk assessment to identify and mitigate hazards and risks of adverse events for patients, staff, and visitors. The Center for Health Design has a free tool to help guide the process.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will release four new National Incident Management System (NIMS) courses during the week of May 28, 2019. The new courses are: E/L/G 0191, Emergency Operations Center/Incident Command System Interface; G 0402, NIMS Overview for Senior Officials (Executives, Elected and Appointed); IS-2200, Basic Emergency Operations Center Functions; and E/L/G 2300, Intermediate Emergency Operations Center Functions. The Emergency Management Institute (EMI) will host four informational webinars about the training for stakeholders, training partners, and instructors. The webinars will be held: May 28, 11:00 a.m. EDT; May 29, 3:00 p.m. EDT; May 30, 11:00 a.m. EDT; and May 30, 3:00 p.m. EDT. The webinars can be accessed via the Adobe Connect platform in the NIMS ICS Training Forum. If you don’t have a login and password, press cancel at the pop-up to log on as a guest. The Adobe Connect platform is for displaying visuals and for chatroom only. Audio will be provided using the conference call line at 800-320-4330 with the pin number 884976. Additional information is located in the National Preparedness Course Catalog.
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On May 20, FEMA published the New Recipients of Disaster Grants Guide, a centralized resource document for state, local, tribal and territorial governments. This guide provides streamlined guidance on the essential elements of Public Assistance (PA), Individual Assistance (IA), and Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) and required actions to request, initiate and receive FEMA disaster assistance grants. The document combines pre-disaster preparation recommendations, program requirements and associated deadlines, and other information from all three grant programs. The guide also outlines the critical statutory, policy and procedural requirements for recipients of FEMA disaster assistance grants. The scope of the guide includes pre-disaster preparations and post-disaster actions and is tailored to an audience of current (or prospective) recipients of federal disaster grant funding. The information is meant to supplement available programmatic guidance and assist new recipients with limited experience in navigating the FEMA disaster grant process. Join one of FEMA’s two upcoming webinar opportunities to learn more about the new guide: June 17, 2:00 p.m. EDT and June 19, 2:00 p.m. EDT. Participate by teleconference: 1-800-320-4330, PIN 859916#, or via FEMA Adobe Connect. Webinar 1:00-2:00 p.m. EDT, Monday, June 17.
Domestic Preparedness
Communities are facing a wide variety of shocks and stresses. Whether it is a natural disaster threat (hurricane, earthquake, flood, wildfire), socioeconomic stressor (homelessness, poverty), or loss of a major employer, communities are looking for strategies to protect their citizens, tax base, and infrastructure (including buildings) from disaster. New tools and benchmarks provide the basis for developing these strategies.
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The DePaulia
What gives urban flooding its specificity is the cause of the flooding. Urban flooding occurs in densely populated areas where there is not sufficient drainage area for rainfall, causing the sewer system to become overwhelmed. Water then gets forced back onto streets and into people’s homes. It’s more frequent than large scale flooding, though less visible. It causes expensive, wet problems for populations that often cannot afford an effective fix.
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Forbes
There's no doubt that the potential for a Chernobyl-type event has been greatly reduced as a result of design changes and additional training, but has it been reduced to zero?
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The Globe and Mail
There are factors beyond climate change at play. Chief among them is our relentless expansion of urban and agricultural infrastructure. Each year, we plow and pave over more of the land’s absorptive capacity, forcing ever more rain and meltwater into overburdened arteries and basins. At the same time, we keep building farther into floodplains whose exposure keeps getting worse.
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MENAFN
The impacts of climate change, associated sea level rise and extreme weather are amplifying as a result of record greenhouse gas levels and combining with urbanization, environmental degradation and water stress to produce interlocking crises. There needs to be a drastic change of course, according to the top global forum on disaster risk reduction.
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GCN
While responder agencies rely on many different sources for information on the status of natural disasters, they continue to face challenges in finding timely, relevant and accurate information to inform their disaster response plans -- in real time and at scale. What if there was a better way for the emergency responders to stay informed of breaking events?
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OpenGov
The University of Newcastle, in Australia, recently held its annual Hackathon or problem-solving challenge called the Integrated Innovation Network (I2N). Disaster resilience was the focus for this year, which asked participants to find solutions that leave communities less vulnerable when disaster strikes.
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IAEM
The final webinar in the Certification Webinar Series is scheduled for June 12 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. These webinars are designed to help AEM®/CEM® certification candidates navigate the application process. Register through the IAEM website.
Charlotte Sun
Charlotte County Public Safety Director Bill Van Helden announced on Monday that Patrick Fuller has been selected to succeed Jerry Mallet as emergency management director.
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A Ph.D. student researcher is interested in interviewing emergency managers who used social media to communicate with their communities during Hurricane Irma. Communication modes could include Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media platform. If you are willing to participate, please contact the student researcher by e-mail at rosejuma1@yahoo.com.
Phys.org
A new study of UK lake sediment records stretching back over several centuries has found that the floods that hit Northern England in 2009 and 2015 (Storm Desmond), were the largest in 600 years—pointing to the impact of climate change on the frequency and magnitude of extreme events.
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Blitz
According to the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC SR1.5, 2018) global warming is likely to reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052 if it continues to increase at the current rate. Climate-related risks for natural and human systems are higher for global warming of 1.5°C than at present.
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Thomson Reuters Foundation
Mozambique, which was battered by two cyclones in March and April, will hold an international conference in two weeks' time to drum up funding to help it build back stronger, its vice-minister for state administration said.
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The Japan News via LMTonline
Following calamities such as a major earthquake or torrential rain, the spread of rumors via social media has repeatedly occurred, often causing confusion among residents in the disaster-hit areas. Rumors have included groundless predictions of another major earthquake and false information stating a thief is posing as a rescue team member and lurking about. A mix of such rumors with important disaster information could cause anxiety among disaster victims and aggravate confusion in the disaster-hit areas.
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Caribbean News Service
Wendy Betancourt lives in the rural farming community of Bella Vista, Belize – a district where forest fires are a frequent and very present danger. It is also a community that is about 10 miles away from the fire station and so only the resilience of the residents will ensure that their properties and livelihoods are not lost in the event of a fire.
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Gulf News
A million workers have been trained in fire-fighting by Dubai Civil Defense since 2015, an official said on Tuesday. In 2018, Dubai Civil Defense held 1,336 workshops and lectures on fire safety. Around 94,520 people of all ages and backgrounds participated.
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Reuters
An explosion targeting a tourist bus injured at least 12 people on Sunday, mostly South African tourists, near a new museum being built close to the Giza pyramids in Egypt.
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CNN
Vicious weather brought damaging tornadoes and heavy rains to areas of the central United States already dealing with floodwaters that prompted scores of water rescues over the past two days. There were at least 30 preliminary reports of tornadoes in the central US on Tuesday, most of the twisters occurring in Kansas and Missouri. Over the past five days there have been 130 tornado reports, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Storm Prediction Center.
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The Province
Residents of a northern Alberta town are being told to be ready to evacuate at any time as an out-of-control wildfire, fanned by strong winds and dry conditions, continues to grow.
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