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IAEM
This week, FEMA and its emergency management partners released Claudine Jaenichen’s “Visual + Effective Communication for Emergency Information.” In her PrepTalk, Jaenichen explores the cognitive biases that impede our ability to make the right decision when confronted with an emergency and designs visual information that helps more people recall safe routes during an evacuation. Professor Jaenichen is an information designer specializing in the relationship between design and cognition. She serves on the Board of Governors for the Communication Research Institute and on the Executive Board for the Design Network for Emergency Management. Her PrepTalk video and additional resources are available at www.fema.gov/preptalks/jaenichen. Additional PrepTalks from the April 2019 symposium in Santa Rosa, California will be released in the coming months. PrepTalks are a partnership between FEMA, IAEM, NEMA, the National Homeland Security Consortium, and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
IAEM
Come early or stay late and add training at no additional cost from FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI) and the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC), plus the IAEM Leadership Symposium, sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security. This exclusive offer is for registered attendees at the full, basic and student registration rates at the IAEM 67th Annual Conference being held in Savannah, Georgia, Nov. 15-20, 2019. For a complete listing of all training courses, visit the conference website, or review the detailed full conference program. Registration will open in late June.
IAEM
The IAEM Scholarship Commission seeks applicants to fill several commission openings for the Class of 2021 (term ends in 2021). Interested applicants must be detailed oriented, responsive to email and phone, and willing to devote at least 60 hours yearly to online reviews, online meetings, and fundraising. Commissioners must have an appreciation of students and the study of emergency management; understand the emergency management career field; possess experience in the field of emergency management and have demonstrated longevity; and be available to regularly attend online meetings and preferably the IAEM Annual Conference. IAEM specifically is looking for individuals representing the following categories: past scholarship recipient; IAEM-Global Student Council member; IAEM-Canada Council member; academia; IAEM member-at-large; scholarship donor; and scholarship founders’ family. Applications must be submitted by July 31, 2019, via email to IAEM Scholarship Program Director Dawn Shiley. The application must include a letter of intent expressing the desire to participate, the ability to devote the time to the program, and an explanation of why they should be considered for the position they seek. In addition, the applicant must submit a current resume, with a two-page maximum. Questions may be directed to IAEM Scholarship Program Director Dawn Shiley at (703)538-3542.
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CBC News
Emergency Management B.C. is testing a digital registration system for emergency support services that could reduce costs and save time for evacuees of wildfires and floods.
Traditionally, people displaced due to disasters have registered for services like food and accommodation at emergency reception centres using a paper-based system.
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CTV News
The federal government could help mitigate the cost of flood damage by creating a "high-risk" insurance pool to help lift the burden off the public purse, says a report released Tuesday by the Insurance Bureau of Canada.
The high-risk scheme is one of three options laid out in the report, a product of months of work by a national working group co-chaired by the bureau and Public Safety Canada.
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“Store and Forward” capability allows field staff to work offline and ensures data integrity under the most adverse conditions!
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IAEM
This year, IAEM-USA Council voting members will be selecting the next IAEM-USA Second Vice President and Treasurer. Regional officers will be selected for these IAEM-USA regions: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 9. All call for nominations notices (council and regional), which were emailed to regional members on June 3, have been posted on the IAEM-USA News page. The call for nominations notices include information on: officer eligibility; credentials that must be submitted; how to submit nominations; and links to pertinent regional bylaws and the IAEM-USA Administrative Policies and Procedures. This is your opportunity to serve your fellow members and to advance the mission of the association, so we hope you’ll consider running for office. The nominations period closes on July 3, 2019, 5:00 p.m. EDT. Questions should be directed to Karen Thompson, staff elections liaison, Thompson@iaem.com.
Emergency Management
Officials want to know why dozens of campers were left soaked and stranded after the electronic door locks on a $1 million tornado shelter failed to unlock during an actual tornado warning.
The reinforced concrete of the new dome-shaped shelter at Delaware State Park is designed to withstand hurricane-force winds and save lives, but only if you can get inside.
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USA Today
As bad as last year's wildfire season was in the western USA, this season's could be even worse, federal forecasters warned.
"It's hard to imagine a repeat of this experience, but this is the potential reality that we face again this year," said Jeff Rupert, director of the Office of Wildland Fire for the Interior Department, during his opening remarks at a Senate hearing Thursday, CNN reported.
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Homeland Security Today
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that expected annual economic losses total $54 billion for most types of damage caused by storm surges, hurricane winds, and heavy precipitation. Expected annual federal spending in response to hurricane winds and storm-related flooding totals $17 billion.
In CBO’s estimate, expected economic losses represent long-run average annual costs based on current conditions, including sea levels and property in areas at risk of severe storms.
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Los Angeles Times
A poll of California voters finds they would support state restrictions on building new housing in wildfire-prone areas. Should California impose limits on new housing development in high-risk wildfire areas? Three-quarters of voters in the state say yes, according to a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, prepared for The Times.
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Quartz
One of the best ways to figure out how to respond to the tremors deep inside our planet is to observe their effects from far away in outer space.
Thanks to the use of satellite imagery, organizations tasked with responding to earthquake zones of the future will be better able to analyze affected areas and just how intense a response to mount.
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WJHG-TV
It's one week of summer where young women can discover more of their true potential.
“This is all the stuff you can do, and it’s also to teach young girls that like you can do this, it’s not just a man's world," HERricane Florida Camper Naydene Higgins said.
The HERricane Florida Camp is teaching girls about emergency management, and the strength behind the job titles surrounding.
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Homeland Security Today
The most dangerous threat to ICS has new targets in its sights. Dragos identified the XENOTIME activity group expanded its targeting beyond oil and gas to the electric utility sector. This expansion to a new vertical illustrates a trend that will likely continue for other ICS-targeting adversaries.
Industrial control system (ICS) cyber threats are proliferating. More capable adversaries are investing heavily in the ability to disrupt critical infrastructure like oil and gas, electric power, water, and more.
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Homeland Security Today
The United Nations weather and climate agency, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), has warned that the latest 5G mobile phone technology jeopardizes early warning services which protect people from natural disasters such as tropical cyclones.
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IAEM
The IAEM Editorial Committee 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 have an idea for a different 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, Thompson@iaem.com, no later than July 10, 2019.
Natural Hazards Center
As wildfires raged through California, Paul—a preschooler with asthma and developmental disabilities—was home from school recuperating from a recent illness. Later that night, however, the fires advanced and his mother had to make the decision to evacuate.
In the rush, she grabbed some needed items, such as his inhaler, but left other health-related equipment and supplies behind.
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YubaNet
The recipe for disaster is simple. Throughout Western North America, millions of people live in high-risk wildfire zones thanks to increasingly dry, hot summers and abundant organic fuel in nearby wildlands.
This year, the National Interagency Fire Center is predicting a heavy wildfire season for areas along the West Coast from California into Canada due to a heavy crop of grasses and other plants that developed in the wake of a wet winter.
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EDM Digest
Imagine this scenario: Terrorists infiltrate an industrial facility and set explosives on a storage tank filled with chlorine gas as well as secondary devices strewn across a 20-meter radius.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, several helicopters land at petroleum refineries and plant improvised explosive devices (IEDs) before launching rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at the distillation units.
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Route Fifty
When disaster strikes, we’ve come to rely on our phones. We scroll through Twitter for the latest update on a hurricane or flood, and mark ourselves safe from wildfires or tornadoes on Facebook.
Now Google is adding a disaster-navigation tool to Google Maps. Launching later this summer, a new feature on Google Maps will route users away from areas that are affected by extreme weather events.
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KTTV-TV
After some of the most devastating wildfires in recent history, some Southland utilities are taking drastic action to prevent another wildfire tragedy.
Tom Rolinski is the new guy at Southern California Edison. Ten months ago he was hired to be the company's Fire Meteorologist as fire season continues getting longer and more difficult.
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Emergency Management
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Wednesday deployed its upgraded weather forecast model — the Global Forecast System (GFS) — which has undergone a software upgrade.
Extensive testing during both summer and winter months using models from previous storms was done, and the updated model is expected to produce accurate one-to-two-day forecasts and increases the accuracy of forecasts made in the three-to-seven-day range.
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IAEM
Are you working towards your AEM®/CEM® this year? Review dates and important information about completing the process in time to receive your diploma at the IAEM Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia, is available on the IAEM website. We hope to celebrate your achievements with you in November!
HUB
Connor Scott, a seasoned first responder, emergency manager, and public administrator who has served as the chief of staff in the Office of the Vice President for Security for the past year, is stepping into the role of acting vice president for security for Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine, effective immediately, while the university launches a national search for the position.
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IAEM
An IAEM webinar has been scheduled for June 28, 2019, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT, on “Social Media for the Everyday Emergency Manager: Real-World Examples from the Field.” The event is being offered by the IAEM-USA Emerging Technology Caucus. Register online.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute (EMI) will host a webinar series highlighting the changes in three courses on the Incident Command System All-Hazards Position Specific Curriculum, along with instructor requirements and future course releases. The new information can be accessed online. Each webinar will have the same content, and curriculum changes will apply to: E/L0962, Planning Section Chief; E/L0964, Situation Unit Leader; and E/L0965, Resources Unit Leader. Dates and times are: “June 25, 11:00 a.m. EDT; June 25, 3:00 p.m. EDT; June 27, 11:00 a.m. EDT; and June 27, 2:00 p.m. EDT. To participate, register on Adobe Connect at NIMS ICS Training Forum. Sign in as a guess using the following format: last name, first name, ST (example: Patrick, Robert, NJ). Or access the call line at 800-320-4330, pin 884976#.
AgriLife Today
The Texas Animal Emergency Management Summit will be held July 30 in Rooms 107A and 107B of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 660 Raymond Stotzer Parkway, College Station.
The summit, “Saving Pets Saves Human Lives,” is free for participants due to the support of PetSmart Charities. It is sponsored by the Texas Animal Health Commission, Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the Houston SPCA.
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Sixth Tone
China’s nascent earthquake early warning industry received a very public test late Monday, when a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Changning County in the southwestern province of Sichuan, killing 13 and injuring 200.
In a widely circulated video taken in the provincial capital of Chengdu, a female voice can be heard warning residents of the impending quake over a local loudspeaker.
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Government Europa
An initiative funded by innovation body EIT Digital is trialing emergency management drones for use in fires, locating missing persons and other emergency situations.
Autonomous drone development programme UAV-Retina has overseen initial field tests of the drones, which are capable of autonomous flight and data gathering, in Rennes, France and at a fire department training ground just outside Trento, Italy.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For now, the residents of busy Reis Run Road in Ross can only sit and watch as mud keeps coming down and blocking the street, a situation that has continued amid regular rainfalls since May 31.
It’s frustrating, the residents say, and even worse for the man whose house has been condemned because of damage from the landslide. They are not alone.
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The Associated Press via USA Today
Rescue efforts were underway Tuesday after an earthquake in southwestern China left 12 people dead and 135 others injured, authorities said.
Hundreds of firefighters arrived early Tuesday and rescued at least eight trapped people, the Chinese Ministry of Emergency Management said.
State broadcaster CCTV showed soldiers using a chainsaw to cut through a wooden door and rescue a couple under a fallen kitchen wall.
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The Associated Press via ABC News
A powerful earthquake jolted northwestern Japan late Tuesday, causing minor injuries to 21 people and a brief evacuation of coastal homes until the risk of a tsunami passed. Store floors were littered with goods that fell off shelves, and roofs of homes showed bare spots where tiles had shaken loose. But business was returning to normal Wednesday morning, with trains mostly running as usual and electricity restored to thousands of homes that lost power temporarily.
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BBC News
Power has been restored to much of Argentina and Uruguay after a massive electrical failure left tens of millions of people in the dark.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri has promised a full investigation.
Argentine media said the power cut occurred shortly after 07:00 (10:00GMT) on Sunday, causing trains to be halted and failures with traffic signaling.
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WLS-TV
Mexico's Popocatepetl stratovolcano spewed rock on Monday and sent clouds of ash into the sky.
The footage taken by the Mexican government disaster agency showed the outburst at 6:44 a.m. local time.
The 17,797-foot (5,426-meter) volcano has been particularly active in recent months, several times spewing out sprays of hot rock and towering clouds of ash.
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BBC News
Footage shows the moment a landslide hits a road in the Fujian province in southeast China.
Days of heavy rain and flooding in central and southern parts of the country have killed up to 61 people. Thousands of people have been rescued and hundreds of thousands have been evacuated from their homes.
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BBC News
The southern Indian city of Chennai (formerly Madras) is in crisis after its four main water reservoirs ran completely dry.
The acute water shortage has forced the city to scramble for urgent solutions, including drilling new boreholes.
Residents have had to stand in line for hours to get water from government tanks, and restaurants have closed due to the lack of water.
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