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The program details for the IAEM 64th Annual Conference & EMEX in Savannah, Georgia, October 14-19, 2016, are now available online. Register today for the premiere emergency management event of the year. View highlights from the 2015 IAEM Annual Conference and hear what others have to say.
The Times of India
India's nuclear disaster emergency plans are "not in line with international standard" and some interventions set by Indian nuclear regulator in case of an emergency provide "inadequate" protection against possible radiation, Greenpeace India has claimed.
"Some of the disaster intervention levels set by the Indian nuclear regulator allow inadequate protection against possible exposure, both internal and external in case of a nuclear emergency," it alleged.
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CBC News
British Columbia's government is spending $1.2 million on a massive earthquake drill to prepare for the real thing, which forecasters say has 1 in 3 odds of hitting the west coast in the next 50 years.
Naomi Yamamoto, B.C.'s emergency preparedness minister, says it's not a matter of if an earthquake hits, it's when — and being prepared pays off in a disaster.
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Latin American Herald Tribune
Latin American governments and populations need greater capacity to cope with natural disasters, the European Union’s ambassador to Paraguay told EFE.
In the face of the massive earthquake that struck Ecuador in April and the floods and droughts affecting countries such as Paraguay, Peru and Bolivia, the region needs to focus on improving disaster response, Alessandro Palmero said.
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Jamaica Observer
Around 300 volunteers were trained to operate an emergency telecommunications system during natural disasters under an initiative funded by the Canadian government and rolled out by nonprofit organisation Abacus for Communities in partnership with the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management and Parish Development Committees.
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Daily Express
It came following a map being released showing huge areas of the city that would need evacuating in the event a huge wave struck.
The quake, of 4.1 magnitude, was detected off the central coast of the state following weekend weather chaos.
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Phys.org
Scientists say they've discovered a magma buildup near a New Zealand town that explains a spate of recent earthquakes and could signal the beginnings of a new volcano — although they're not expecting an eruption anytime soon.
Geophysicist Ian Hamling said that since 1950, enough magma to fill 80,000 Olympic-size swimming pools has squeezed up beneath the surface near the coastal town of Matata, about 120 miles southeast of Auckland.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on June 6 issued a report on the need for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to take steps to ensure the timeliness of information that is needed to protect U.S. national security. The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee requested that GAO review the security of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), which allows foreign travelers to enter the United States visa-free for up to 90 days. The report concludes that many countries in the VWP are not meeting their agreements to exchange information with the United States about terrorism suspects. GAO found that of the 38 countries participating in the VWP, more than one-third have failed to share terrorism identity information under the agreements. The full report and a highlights summary are available online.
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On Thursday, May 26, FEMA, the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) and Johnson County Emergency Management presented the first Ready Business Workshop in Olathe, Kansas. More than 80 representatives attended the workshop, which focused on the severe wind and tornado threat to the region. Johnson County Emergency Management Coordinator Dan Robeson (an IAEM member) and FEMA Region VII Regional Administrator Beth Freeman welcomed participants and provided opening remarks. The afternoon session coincided with a real-world tornado warning in the Greater Kansas City community as the group moved through a tabletop exercise focused on public-private coordination before, during, and after a disaster. Future workshops will include toolkits for severe wind, tornado, inland flooding and power outage. Each will also include a community-based, public-private operational coordination exercise. For more information about Ready Business Workshops, contact the FEMA Private Sector Division at FEMA-Private-Sector@fema.dhs.gov.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on June 8 reposted draft replacement language for the Public Assistance Program and Policy Guide on Public Assistance Program Minimum Standards to the Federal Register for public comment. When using Public Assistance funds to repair, replace or construct buildings located in hazard-prone areas, applicants would use, at a minimum, the hazard-resistant standards reflected or referenced in the International Building Code (IBC). Costs associated with meeting these standards would be eligible. As FEMA works to implement the new standard for its Public Assistance program, it is requesting input on the draft language from the public and emergency management community. The draft language is posted to the Federal Register, and will be available for comment until July 8, 2016. Questions should be directed to FEMA’s Intergovernmental Affairs Division at (202) 646-3444 or FEMA-IGA@dhs.gov.
The News Tribune
A four-day earthquake preparedness exercise kicked off as emergency preparedness officials responded to a fake 9.0 magnitude quake and tsunami off the Oregon Coast.
The drill, the largest ever conducted in the Pacific Northwest, will bring together roughly 20,000 people from federal, state and local levels in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, along with tribal governments and multiple branches of the military.
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The Call for Abstracts for the IAEM-USA Academic Research Presentation Competition (Poster Contest) closes at 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, June 17, 2016. Open only to IAEM-USA student members, the Poster Contest is an opportunity to showcase research to scholars and practitioners in the emergency management community, as well as the general public. The IAEM-USA Academic Research Presentation Competition has been revamped from previous years, with changes in the submission timeline, requirements and judging process. Awards will be given in both the undergraduate and graduate level as follows: First Place - $225; Second Place - $175; and Third Place - $100. View the IAEM-USA Academic Research Presentation Competition Guidance for complete details. Visit the conference website for more information. Entries must be submitted via email attachment in Microsoft Word format, with the subject line “IAEM-USA Poster Abstract” to Julie Husk.
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If you are a current IAEM student member and want to be considered for a stipend of $300 (early-bird rate) for the registration fee to attend the IAEM 2016 Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia, you are eligible to enter the IAEM student registration fee lottery. Email your interest to be included in the lottery to IAEM Membership Manager Sharon Kelly at info@iaem.com no later than Monday, Aug. 1, 2016, along with the following information: name; complete contact information; and university you are attending. Notifications will be sent via email in late August. Please read about the requirements that those who are selected must meet in order to receive the stipend.
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The IAEM-Global Student Council (IAEM-GSC) is accepting entries from IAEM Student members for the 2016 IAEM-GSC Essay Contest through Aug. 1, 2016, 16:59 hours UTC via email to iaemgsc@gmail.com. This year’s contest will focus on a discussion of personal perceptions about the complexities that a new academic or EM practitioner will encounter when entering their chosen EM profession, as well as what actions can be taken by the student to be successful when encountering these complexities. One undergraduate and one graduate paper will be selected as winners. The prize for each will consist of a complimentary IAEM Student membership. The winning essays will be published in the January 2017 IAEM Bulletin. The contest flyer, with complete details and entry instructions, can be downloaded here.
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The IAEM-Global Editorial Work Group seeks feature articles on “Emergency Management and Whole Community Preparedness” for an IAEM Bulletin special focus issue to be prepared in conjunction with the IAEM-USA Whole Community Project Steering Group. Articles might include, but are not limited to: community-based preparedness in areas that don’t have all of the benefits of current technology; case studies of what specific communities or countries are doing to boost whole community preparedness (specific locations, and descriptions of what has worked and what hasn’t); and how all-hazards planning boosts whole community preparedness. Please read the author’s guidelines, and email your 750-1,500 word article submissions to Karen Thompson, editor, by July 10, 2016.
The Orange County Register
At Virginia Tech nine years ago, site of the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history, the gunman was a student.
At UC Santa Barbara in 2014, the shooter had recently dropped out of a nearby community college.
And at UCLA last week, the accused gunman was a former student who drove cross-country to pursue a perceived injustice.
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The Associated Press via NOLA.com
In a metamorphosis, New Orleans — once overwhelmed by failed levees and Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters — is moving to become a national model of how an urban center can embrace green tactics to tame water.
The city is recalibrating its century-old system of drainage canals and massive pumps by installing green infrastructure projects, potentially on an unprecedented scale for an American city.
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The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on June 8 issued a news release noting that Spring 2016 was warm and wet in the United States. The March-to-May temperature average across the contiguous United States was 53.7 degrees F, which ranked as the sixth highest in the record. Every state had a spring temperature that was above average, and 15 states were much above average. It was also the 18th wettest spring on record for the contiguous United States, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. Despite the near-average May, the first five months of the year turned out to be the fourth warmest such period on record. Every state was warmer than average for the year to date, and Alaska continued to shatter records for warmth. Learn more.
The Guardian
Western societies would not respond well to a Fukushima-style nuclear disaster due to a lack of public information, a leading disaster expert has warned.
Christopher Abbott said he firmly believed that the public ought to be better educated over the hazards and risks they may face.
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Palm Beach Post via WDBO-Radio
Florida is enjoying more than 10 years untouched by hurricane-force winds — an unprecedented era of climatological calm that has long surpassed previous storm-free stretches.
As of today, the start of the 2016 tropical cyclone season, the last hurricane to touch the Sunshine State was 3,873 days ago when hurricane Wilma bullied ashore near Cape Romano in October 2005.
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PreventionWeb
Flash floods, burst riverbanks, overflowing drains, contaminants leaching into waterways: some of the disruptive, damaging and hazardous consequences of having too much rain. But can cities be designed and adapted to live more flexibly with water — to treat it as friend rather than foe?
In December 2015, Storm Desmond hit the north of the U.K. In its wake came floods, the misery of muddy, polluted water surging through homes and the disruption of closed businesses, schools and roads.
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USA Today
Facebook is experimenting with letting users, not company staff, initiate Safety Check during a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
In coming weeks, the giant social network will test a version in which users can notify loved ones that they are safe and send an invitation to friends in the area to do the same rather than relying on a team of engineers to pore over real-time data on international crises to pinpoint the ones that merit a Safety Check activation.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released a stakeholder overview of a new grant program, the Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attack Grant Program (CCTA). The Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) is expected to go out in mid to late July. Funding of $50 million for the new program was included in the Fiscal Year 2016 Appropriations to help states and local communities prepare for, prevent, and respond to emergent threats from violent extremism and from complex, coordinated terrorist attacks.
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FEMA's Ready Campaign released a Pet Preparedness Social Media Toolkit. This toolkit offers safety and preparedness messages you can share on your social media channels by either copying these messages directly or customizing them to reach your audience. The Pet Preparedness Social Media Toolkit offers tips on pet preparedness, graphics and videos to enhance social media posts, as well as guidance on hashtag and emoji usage. Visit Ready.gov to learn more.
WDRB-TV
Newly sworn-in Emergency Medical Technicians have a new director.
Jody Meiman was sworn in as director of Louisville Metro Emergency Services. The city's medical and ambulance response, the Emergency Management Agency and MetroSafe — the 911 and 311 call centers — will report to Meiman.
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IAEM members are invited to participate in an online survey of human factors in the workplace during disaster response and recovery. The survey examines organizational attitudes and practices related to supporting members of the workforce as they participate in response and recovery activities. It challenges respondents to compare and contrast commonly held assumptions about planning with their organization’s actual plans. The results from this survey will eventually be used in a book about addressing human needs and their impact on response and recovery efforts. Survey results will be provided to those associations whose members and/or readers respond to the survey, with aggregated data from those responses, shortly after the close of the survey. Please be assured that the strictest levels of security and privacy are applied to this survey. Questions should be directed to gnsurveyofdrr@gmail.com.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released a stakeholder overview of a new grant program, the Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attack Grant Program (CCTA). The Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) is expected to go out in mid to late July. Funding of $50 million for the new program was included in the Fiscal Year 2016 Appropriations to help states and local communities prepare for, prevent, and respond to emergent threats from violent extremism and from complex, coordinated terrorist attacks.The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released a stakeholder overview of a new grant program, the Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attack Grant Program (CCTA). The Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) is expected to go out in mid to late July. Funding of $50 million for the new program was included in the Fiscal Year 2016 Appropriations to help states and local communities prepare for, prevent, and respond to emergent threats from violent extremism and from complex, coordinated terrorist attacks.
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The DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate’s Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis (OCIA) will host a webinar discussion of its Mid-Atlantic Hurricane Report on June 23, 2016, 10:00-11:00 a.m. EDT. The report details the potential impact of a Category 2 hurricane making landfall in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Representatives from NOAA and the National Hurricane Center will provide a presentation titled “Everything You Wanted to Know about Hurricanes, But Were Afraid to Ask.” Discussions will include hurricane threats and will highlight recent research focusing on hurricanes. Download flyer, and register online to attend.
IAEM
FEMA’s Individual and Community Preparedness Division (ICPD) developed a new training course entitled, Building a Roadmap to Resilience: A Whole Community Training. This course is designed to inspire and provide participants with information intended to increase a community’s resilience through the whole community approach to emergency management. On Jul. 25-27, 2016, ICPD and the Emergency Management Institute will host the first delivery of this course at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The target audience for this course includes community stakeholders interested in disaster resilience, and emergency management professionals with less than three years of experience who support or implement inclusive emergency management, community disaster planning, preparedness activities, and community outreach partners at the state and local levels. If you know of individuals who may be interested in attending this offering, please direct them to their State Training Officer (or point of contact) to submit a FEMA Form 119-25-1, General Admissions Application. The deadline to register is June 20, 2016. For more information, contact Matthew Lyttle.
Global News
It is still out of control but a massive wildfire burning for over a month in northern Alberta is now 70 percent contained, according to the Alberta government.
The province provided an update on the Fort McMurray wildfire in which it detailed the improved containment and also revealed the fire is still less than 582,000 hectares in size, including the parts of Saskatchewan where it is also burning.
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Miami Herald
A sloppy, wet Tropical Storm Colin whipped Florida’s west coast Tuesday morning as Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for parts of the state.
The fast-moving storm, which made landfall at the Big Bend Monday night, had already caused some flooding as it sailed northeastward along the Gulf Coast.
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Nature World News
Paris is gripped by the worst flooding in over 100 years, forcing the closure of the Louvre and other major landmarks.
After days of incessant rains, the River Seine rose to an alarming 6 meters above its normal level-its highest in more than 30 years-submerging small businesses and riverside roads, and forcing the closure of many establishments.
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The Telegraph
Flash floods and lightning strikes caused chaos across the U.K. on Tuesday as a month’s worth of rain fell in just an hour.
A man and his five-year-old son were left fighting for their lives and his young girl was seriously injured after the trio were struck by lightning during a school sports day in Northern Ireland.
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The Guardian
Northern Tasmania is grappling with the most devastating flooding it has experienced in decades after a severe weather system that devastated Queensland and New South Wales hit the state on Monday.
As night fell, police held grave concerns for two elderly people reported missing in the Tasmanian floodwaters, which continue to rise.
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ITV News
Three people have died after giant waves, hurricane-strength winds and heavy rain hit Australia's east coast, forcing hundreds to flee their homes.
Waves up to five meters high pounded large parts of the east coast, including Sydney, with meteorologists warning of further bad weather on the way.
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Daily Mail
One person has been killed and 11 others injured after a tornado struck Wenchang on the Chinese island of Hainan on June 5.
The giant twister has uprooted 749 people from their homes and completely destroyed some 178 properties, reports the People's Daily Online.
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WHNT-TV
When it comes to rainfall, east Texas just cannot catch a break.
The image at right is a satellite-based estimate of the record-breaking rainfall that fell over the Lone Star State between April 15 -18, 2016. The brightest shades on the map correspond to the heaviest rainfall, as much as 300 millimeters, or about 12 inches of rain.
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