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Join IAEM on June 15, 2017, 1:00-2:00 p.m. EDT, for the first webinar in the new IAEM Thursday Learning Webinar Series. Over the next several months, IAEM will bring learning opportunities to you every 3-4 weeks, depending on speaker availability, on Thursdays, 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET. Recordings of the webinars will be available as a benefit of membership to IAEM members. Ryan Buras, senior program advisor, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), will present the first in the series on the topic of the NIMS National Qualification System. Over time, FEMA has learned that catastrophic disasters can quickly overwhelm jurisdictions and the disaster workforce supporting the community. Findings in after-action reports, such as the Cascadia Subduction Zone Exercise, demonstrate that region-wide staffing and resource shortages occur frequently. In 2016, Cascadia Rising proved that the emergency management community needs to build additional capabilities and resources for responding to incidents. In response to this challenge, FEMA is developing the National Qualification System (NQS), which aims to operationalize resource-sharing opportunities for disasters and incidents by creating an agile disaster workforce that is well-equipped, educated, and trained to rapidly mobilize, deploy and conduct missions. Developing a disaster workforce with the right people in the right place at the right time is a critical step in improving preparedness for all disasters. Learn more and register online to participate.
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The IAEM Scholarship Program now is accepting applications from full-time undergraduate and graduate students for scholarship awards for the 2017-2018 academic year. Students must be working toward a degree in emergency management, disaster management, or a closely related field of study. The application period will close on June 30, 2017, at 11:59 p.m. EDT. Undergraduate and graduate applications with complete instructions are available on the IAEM website. Questions may be directed to Scholarship Program Director Dawn Shiley.
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The IAEM-Global Awards & Recognition Work Group on May 26 announced an extension to the entry period for the 2017 IAEM Awards Competition to June 14, 2017, 5:00 p.m. EDT. This is the first extension in this competition for several years. You are encouraged to take advantage of the additional time to submit your award entry. Start at www.iaem.com/Awards to learn about the competition, and download the guidelines and entry form for the award category you’re interesting in entering. Direct any questions to Karen Thompson, IAEM awards staff liaison.
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The deadline for the next special focus issue of the IAEM Bulletin is July 10, 2017, for articles on “Lessons Learned: Both Domestically and Internationally.” Articles might include, but are not limited to: what we can learn from other countries; what others in our country can learn from our experiences; how emergency management programs are implementing standards; and how standards can bridge the interfaces between countries and between jurisdictions. Please read the author’s guidelines, and email your 750-1,500 word article to Bulletin Editor Karen Thompson, no later than the deadline of July 10, 2017. Note: We publish an IAEM Bulletin special focus issue four times a year, with the other eight monthly issues including a variety of feature article topics, so we are always looking for articles on any topic of interest to emergency managers.
Forbes
Heavy rainfall in northern Taiwan since Friday has cut railway traffic, spiked a couple dozen international flights and cancelled a lot of things as streets flood turn into muddy rivers. That storm is just a start, not one of the infamous typhoons that rages across the island and its West Pacific neighbors in the second half of every year.
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Knowledge Center Enterprises, LLC
Knowledge Center continues to provide essential capabilities to enhance its already robust product offering to emergency management professionals. With the Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP) product, Knowledge Center ensures that customers will meet compliance requirements.
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Homeland Security Newswire
Eight minutes. That is the length of time from the start of the London Bridge attack to the three terrorists being killed by armed police. The Metropolitan Police Service is rightly being heralded for the speed, courage and effectiveness of its members in ending a terrorist atrocity.
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The Telegraph
Reintroducing beavers to Britain could help clean up rivers, prevent flooding and minimize soil loss, an expert has claimed.
Professor Richard Brazier, a researcher at the University of Exeter, said unpublished preliminary results from a trial area in Devon showed muddy water entering an area where the creatures were living was three times cleaner when it left.
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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 Mercury
Warnings could have been more effective in the two communities where people died, a major report into the 2016 Tasmanian floods has found.
An independent Review into the Tasmanian Floods of June and July 2016 found there were gaps in flood studies and flood plans, both in comprehensiveness and currency.
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Now is the time to join IAEM-USA! June 1-Aug. 31, 2017, IAEM-USA is conducting its first annual Membership Drive. New members and member sponsors receive credit that may be applied to IAEM products (store, membership and conference). Visit www.iaem.com/USA2017MembershipDrive and learn how to join or how to sponsor a new member.
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Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly on June 2 announced the release of Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Notices of Funding Opportunity for 10 DHS preparedness grant programs totaling more than $1.6 billion. The grant programs provide funding to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, as well as transportation authorities, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector, to improve the nation’s readiness in preventing, protecting against, responding to, recovering from and mitigating terrorist attacks, major disasters and other emergencies. The grants reflect DHS’ focus on funding for programs that address immediate U.S. security needs and ensure public safety in our communities. Related documents include FY 2017 Homeland Security Grant Programs Roll Out Briefing and FEMA Grant Programs Directorate Information Bulletin 415: FY 2017 Notices of Funding Opportunity. All preparedness Notices of Funding Opportunities can be found at www.grants.gov. Final submissions must be made through the Non-Disaster (ND) Grants system located at https://portal.fema.gov. Further information on DHS preparedness grant programs is available at www.dhs.gov and http://www.fema.gov/grants.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on June 6 released the draft Continuity Guidance Circular (CGC), which will guide whole community efforts to develop and maintain the capability to ensure continuity of operations, continuity of government, and enduring constitutional government during an emergency that disrupts normal operations. The draft document is now beginning a 30-day national engagement period to provide an opportunity for public comment on the draft documents to ensure that the final document reflects the collective expertise and experience of the whole community. The national engagement period will conclude on July 5, 2017, at 5:00 p.m EDT. The draft CGC describes federal and non-federal continuity efforts; outlines whole community continuity roles, responsibilities, and coordinating structures; and describes the process for building and maintaining capabilities to ensure the performance of essential functions and delivery of critical services and core capabilities. FEMA will host a series of 60-minute engagement webinars to describe the CGC and answer questions about providing feedback. Details are posted online, including a feedback form for comments to be submitted to FEMA-CGC@fema.dhs.gov.
IAEM
On June 1, the call for nominations for IAEM-USA 2nd vice president and treasurer was announced by email to all IAEM-USA members and posted on the IAEM website. Candidates must submit their credentials by the deadline of 5:00 p.m. EDT, June 30, 2017, to IAEM HQ via email to info@iaem.com, to be reviewed by the IAEM-USA Nominations & Credentials Committee. Candidates must submit: letter stating candidacy; letter of permission from immediate supervisor supporting time and travel necessary to fulfill duties of office; brief resume; and confirmation of IAEM-USA Individual membership of at least three years immediately prior to seeking office. Individual members are eligible to hold national office, provided they have been a member for at least three consecutive years, and have served as a regional or national officer, national committee chair, or active national committee member for two consecutive years.
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Judson Freed, MA, CEM, director, Ramsey Co. (Minnesota) Emergency Management and Homeland Security, and president, IAEM-USA Region 5, served on a panel of subject matter experts who discussed the topic of federal grant funding for a podcast hosted recently by DomPrep. Also on the panel was IAEM member Donald “Doc” Lumpkins, chief financial officer, Maryland Emergency Management Agency. The podcast addressed potential federal budget cuts to the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) program and why the cuts would be short-sighted, as the regional collaborative support capabilities that it builds are an essential component to national homeland security protection. The podcast recording is available online.
Emergency Management
A weather radar that can measure wind speed and direction at different levels in the atmosphere was under construction last week on a knoll on the Campbell Tract in East Anchorage, but it's mainly designed to forecast the paths of volcanic ash plumes that could cause problems for airplanes.
The radar, owned and operated by the National Weather Service, points directly skyward on a 6-foot-tall rectangular platform.
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The Times Picayune
Emergency managers across southeast Louisiana are eager to understand evacuation behaviors as residents prepare for the ongoing hurricane season.
With this in mind, researchers at Louisiana State University determined that 5 percent, or 90,000, of the 1.8 million residents in southeast Louisiana require sheltering assistance in the event of a mandatory hurricane evacuation.
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KCBS-TV
A tiny pest is turning lush forests into tinderboxes.
More than 100 million dead trees in California are blamed on years of drought and an epidemic number of tree-eating bark beetles.
It’s a dramatic transformation.
CalFire Division Chief Jim Crawford said, “It’s obviously an historic event that’s occurring in California.
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Los Angeles Times
While the future of the West Coast’s earthquake early warning system is in peril from President Trump’s proposed budget cuts, the network is beginning to slowly gain traction in both small and big ways.
A scattering of buildings are now equipped with audible alarms that will give occupants an advance warning ranging from seconds to more than a minute before the shaking from a major earthquake begins.
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IAEM
Each year, IAEM offers the chance for student members to win a stipend in the amount of $300 (early bird rate) which can be used towards either the registration fee or to help support travel expenses to attend the IAEM 2017 Annual Conference in Long Beach, California. Students should email their interest to be considered for the registration fee stipend lottery to IAEM Membership Manager Sharon Kelly at info@iaem.com, no later than Sept. 18, 2017, along with the following information: your name, your complete contact information, and the university that you are attending. Complete details are online.
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The IAEM-Global Student Council reminds all IAEM student members that entries are open until Aug. 1, 2017, in the 2017 Student Essay Competition. Competing in the essay competition provides the opportunity for IAEM student members to show their talent, develop ideas, and share their knowledge and views on a critical emergency management issue – the whole community approach to emergency management. Download the essay competition guidelines for details, and submit your essay to iaemgsc@gmail.com by Aug. 1, 2017.
Homeland Security Newswire
As the recent terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom painfully show, the odds are in favor of terrorists. All they have to do is succeed once, no matter how many times they try. For public safety professionals to be fully successful, they have to prevent 100 percent of the terror attempts. It’s a number to aspire to, but even the most experienced countries fighting terror — such as Israel and the U.K. — can’t measure up to this standard.
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Homeland Security Newswire
The 2016 hurricane season was the longest hurricane season since 1951, making it the second-longest hurricane season on record. “Overall 2016 was notable for a series of extremes, some rarely and a few never before observed in the Atlantic basin, a potential harbinger of seasons to come in the face of ongoing global climate change,” one researcher says.
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Homeland Security Newswire
Worldwide terrorism is at an all-time high, with the cost of violence to the global economy rising to $14.3 trillion last year. The impact of violence in the United States reached $2.5 trillion. Worldwide, deaths from terrorism increased by 80 percent from last year. The intensity of terrorism also increased, with eleven countries last year losing more than 500 people each to terrorist acts.
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EDM Digest
Extreme weather events such as droughts, heatwaves, severe storms, and flooding have doubled over the last 40 years around the globe. A review by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) revealed that 80 percent of all disaster events are climate-related, and these disasters have displaced 155 million people since 2008. Economic losses, both from long and short term disaster effects, equal about $1.4 trillion from major disasters alone.
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Homeland Security Newswire
A mantra of these data-rife times is that within the vast and growing volumes of diverse data types, such as sensor feeds, economic indicators, and scientific and environmental measurements, are dots of significance that can tell important stories, if only those dots could be identified and connected in authentically meaningful ways.
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Domestic Preparedness
In collaboration with many local, state, and federal partners, the Northwest Tribal Emergency Management Council hosted the 14th Annual Regional Joint Tribal Emergency Preparedness Conference on 1-3 May 2017, at the Suquamish Indian Tribe’s center overlooking dxʷsəq̕ʷəb (“place of the clear salt water” in the Southern Lushootseed language) at Agate Pass in Puget Sound, Washington. Amateur radio operators from Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona all contributed to the success of this conference.
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Domestic Preparedness
There have been 56 National Special Security Events since Presidential Directive 62 designated the category in 1998, 32 of which have been hosted in Washington, D.C. The most recent NSSEs have been the 2017 Inauguration, the 2017 President’s Address to the Joint Session of Congress, and the 2015 World Meeting of Families, which involved a visit to the District by Pope Francis. Local jurisdictions hosting such events must evaluate and plan for both the opportunities and challenges they may face.
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IAEM
There is only one more week to submit abstracts for the IAEM Poster Showcase at the Annual Conference in Long Beach, California, Nov. 10-15, 2017. Open to everyone, the Poster Showcase is an opportunity for students, academics and practitioners to share their knowledge or findings obtained through experience or research. Entrants may choose to participate in the competitive division and compete against a standard in their respective categories or the non-competitive division and simply share their research or practice with others. For more information, read the Poster Showcase Guidance and visit the conference website. Deadline is Friday, June 16, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. EDT.
Homeland Security Newswire
Natural and man-made disasters threaten millions of people every year and cause billions of property damage. How much do we know about them? And how can we use that knowledge to save lives and money? A recent report seeks to answer these and other questions and to help prepare for the time when disaster strikes.
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Reuters
The link between poverty and disasters is becoming clearer — new research shows that extreme weather events alone are pushing up to 26 million people into poverty every year. With forces like climate change, urban expansion, and population growth driving this trend, annual losses have passed more than $500 billion annually, and show no signs of slowing.
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Emergency Management
With an above average hurricane season predicted, the lack of leadership at two agencies responsible for protecting the United States' coast lines should be a sobering thought, said a widely admired general who led the military’s response to Hurricane Katrina.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which runs the National Hurricane Center, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are both without leaders.
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Domestic Preparedness
A top-down approach provides guidance and support from federal agencies to local jurisdictions. A bottom-up approach ensures that local needs are being heard at the top. However, when local agencies are tasked with national security efforts, more guidance and support may be needed from above. It is time to prioritize resources, measure preparedness and response capabilities, and build and support national capabilities locally by redefining homeland security in today’s environment.
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NextGov
How can transportation workers stop a deluge of water from surging into a subway tunnel? A Homeland Security Department tech team thinks it has the answer: use a huge inflatable object to plug up the tunnel.
On Tuesday, DHS demonstrated the final version of its "Resilient Tunnel Plug," in Delaware; it has tested prototypes of the system in Washington's Metrorail.
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IAEM
The third webinar in the IAEM Certification Series takes place today, June 8, 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT. You still have time to register and participate. The free program will cover "Experience/Work History and Degree Documentation." A Certification Commissioner will lead the webinar and provide 30 minutes of detailed information. Participants will have 30 minutes to ask questions at the end of the webinar to tailor the learning to their needs.
IAEM
Our largest Certification Preparatory Course and Exam Offering will be held in conjunction with the IAEM Annual Conference in Long Beach, California, on Nov. 12, 2017. Registration will open soon through the IAEM website. The Preparatory Course is $495. The Certification fee to take the exam is $395 for IAEM Members and $595 for Non-Members. We hope to see you there.
IAEM
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships has scheduled a webinar on “Protect your Organization – Resources, Partners, and Tips to Help Keep your Office, House of Worship, or Community Center Safe,” for June 13, 2017, 2:00-3:30 p.m. EDT. DHS’ Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, members of the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters, and others offer numerous resources to assist faith-based and community organizations with their efforts to prepare for all types of hazards, whether natural or human-caused. This webinar will highlight federal resources and partners to help community and faith leaders improve the safety and security of their facilities. Register for the webinar here, and access more resources online.
IAEM
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concludes a three-part webinar series for emergency management agencies and drinking water and wastewater utilities to learn how to increase resilience and improve emergency response efforts. Part 3, “Confronting Challenges – Access and Fuel Supply Planning,” will take place June 14, 2017, 1:00-2:00 p.m. EDT. This webinar will feature speakers from both sectors discussing how they approached resolving access issues to disaster sites (credentialing) and what efforts they have undertaken to create a more resilient fuel supply. Download webinar flyer for details, and register online.
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Join IAEM for its next Think Tank on July 18, 2017, 2:00-3:30 p.m. EDT, for a discussion on “Large Event Crisis Planning — A Private Sector Perspective.” Crisis planning for large events is on the mind of many emergency managers due to the recent awful attacks overseas. This concern is especially high for private sector companies that host thousands of people at events or on their sites. Our upcoming IAEM Think Tank will provide a behind-the-scenes look at large event crisis planning from a private sector perspective and explain how to engage with government responders to develop a seamless response plan. Andrea Davis, director of global crisis management and business continuity at Disney will participate on our panel of speakers. Other speakers will be announced as they are confirmed. Register online.
Reuters
A cholera epidemic in Yemen has killed at least 681 people and the outbreak has yet to peak, according to World Health Organization (WHO) figures showing an increase in the death toll of nearly 50 percent since its last update on May 27.
WHO figures taken between April 27 and June 4 show 86,422 suspected cholera cases were recorded in 19 of Yemen's 23 governorates, although the WHO said the increase was partly due to "better completeness of reporting."
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The Citizen
A massive weather system is pummelling South Africa, but bringing welcome rain to drought-stricken areas. Follow all the latest details here.
Eight people have been killed, with four of them in a fire caused by lightning on Wednesday in stormy weather conditions that have gripped different parts of the Western Cape since Tuesday night.
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Firstpost
At least 13,000 people in Assam have been affected by flood, officials said on Sunday. Also, landslides triggered by incessant rain disrupted rail connectivity to the state's Barak Valley region.
Assam State Disaster Management Authority officials said at least 13,000 people have been affected due to the year's first wave of floods in 28 villages in Lakhimpur, Jorhat and Biswanath districts, in the past 24 hours.
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XinhuaNet
The recent Cyclone Mora has destroyed or damaged some 20,000 houses in two states and one region in Myanmar, official media reported Sunday.
No deaths were reported in Myanmar.
The storm, that swept through the western coast on Tuesday, brought destruction to Rakhine and Chin states and Ayeyawaddy region, according to the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement.
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