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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). In addition, the conference will feature the IAEM Leadership Symposium, sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security, as a pre-conference training option. This exclusive offer is for registered attendees at the full, basic and student registration rates at the IAEM 68th Annual Conference being held in Long Beach, California, Nov. 13-20, 2020. For a complete listing of all training choices, visit the conference website. Registration is open online.
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IAEM
The IAEM Scholarship Program now is accepting applications from full-time undergraduate and full- and part-time graduate students for scholarship awards for the 2020-2021 academic year. Students must be working toward a degree in emergency management, disaster management, or a closely related field of study. Undergraduate and graduate applications with complete instructions are available on the IAEM website. The application deadline is 11:59:59 p.m. CDT, July 15, 2020. Questions may be directed to Scholarship Program Director Dawn Shiley.
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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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IAEM
The entry period for the IAEM Awards Competition will end at 5:00 p.m. EDT on June 30, 2020. All required entry forms and supporting documentation are due by the deadline. During these unconventional and busy times, this is a wonderful way to recognize the hard work of your colleagues or your EM program from last year, but time is limited. There is no entry fee for IAEM members. Members are encouraged to consider nominating their colleagues for the IAEM-USA Clayton R. Christopher Local Emergency Manager Memorial Award, IAEM-USA Emergency Manager of the Year Award, IAEM-Global Business and Industry Preparedness Award, IAEM-Global Partners in Preparedness Award, IAEM-Global Public Awareness Award, and IAEM-Global Technology & Innovation Award. You can find links to the other award categories (Global, USA-only, Canada-only, and Student awards) starting on the main IAEM Awards web page. Direct any questions to Rebecca Campbell, staff liaison for IAEM Awards.
IAEM
In August, the IAEM Editorial Committee will publish the third 2020 special focus issue on the topic of “Black Swan Events: Crumbling Infrastructure.” Many of us are facing the challenges of crumbling infrastructure, including power grid failure, weakened dams and bridges, and general aging of the infrastructure as a whole. How do emergency managers prepare their communities when a potential disaster has not yet occurred? Share your experiences in an article for this issue. What did you and your community learn from an event that occurred due to crumbling infrastructure? It is more obvious than ever that our world is rapidly changing. How will we learn to operate in an environment that is unlike anything in our past? Will technology be our friend or an obstacle? Where are the opportunities for growth, development, change and synergy as we move into the future world of emergency management? The deadline for article submissions on this topic is July 20, 2020. Details are posted online. Direct questions to IAEM Bulletin Editor Karen Thompson.
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IAEM
The calls for nomination are open for IAEM-USA council and regional officer positions up for election in 2020. Nominations must be received by 5:00 p.m. EDT, July 2, 2020. Nominations are sought for second vice president and secretary of the IAEM-USA Council. In addition, there will be six regional officer elections (IAEM-USA Regions 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10) to be held on the same schedule as the national election. Members who voluntarily share their time and skills are crucial to IAEM making a difference every day. Show your commitment to our association and our profession by running for office in the national or regional elections. Complete details of each call for nomination can be downloaded from the IAEM-USA News page. Prospective candidates may direct any questions to Rebecca Campbell, staff liaison for IAEM online elections.
Homeland Security Today
Project Airbridge was created to shorten the amount of time it takes for U.S. medical supply distributors to bring personal protective equipment (PPE) and other critical medical supplies into the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic response. This shipment method, the focus of the acceleration effort of FEMA’s supply chain task force, was a temporary solution to expedite the transportation of commercially distributed PPE from international manufacturers to the United States.
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Optimum Seismic
How vulnerable is your apartment to earthquake damage? Is it located near a fault, landslide or liquefaction zone? The United States Geological Survey has published an interactive map online, (https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/EQZApp/app/ ) enabling the public to search by property address to determine the earthquake risks associated with specific land parcels.
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Homeland Preparedness News
A panel of public health experts called on Congress to focus on creating a mechanism that would help create vaccines for future pandemics, even as the world is working to cope with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
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Government Executive
As new COVID-19 outbreaks crop up in many parts of the country, heads of agencies leading the federal government’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic stressed they are going to significant lengths to prepare for a large uptick in cases later this year.
Agencies are working to ramp up the production and distribution of personal protective equipment, exponentially increase testing capacity and develop treatments and vaccines, officials told the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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TNS via Emergency Management
Nearly two years after one of the deadliest corporate crimes in California history — a utility-sparked wildfire that killed scores of people and destroyed the city of Paradise in rural Butte County — state and federal officials have staked out differing positions on how to prevent history from repeating itself.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Public Utilities Commission created a new division to monitor wildfire safety plans from California utilities, including Pacific Gas & Electric, whose equipment and negligence ignited the Camp fire in November 2018.
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IAEM
FEMA seeks public feedback on the draft of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) document, Guideline for Resource Management Preparedness. Feedback will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. EDT, July 23. National engagement provides an opportunity for interested parties to comment on the draft document to ensure that it is relevant for all implementing partners. The guideline supplements the National Incident Management System Resource Management component by providing additional details on resource management preparedness processes, best practices, authorities and tools. FEMA will host a series of webinars to outline the guidance and answer related questions. All webinars are open to the whole community. To register for one of the webinars or to review the draft document visit the FEMA website.
Advisory Board
Jeffrey Elder, MD—emergency medicine physician at University Medical Center, Clinical Associate Professor at Louisiana State University School of Medicine, and former Administrative Director and Medical Director of New Orleans Emergency Medical Services—recently spoke with Advisory Board's Alice Thornton Bell, APRN, senior director, and Rebecca Soistmann, analyst, about how hospitals should proactively prepare to manage hurricane response amid COVID-19.
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Homeland Security News Wire
June 1 is the start of hurricane season in the Atlantic, and with 2020 predicted to be particularly active, residents in coastal regions are keeping watchful eyes on the weather. Flooding is often the most damaging effect of tropical storms, and one of the first casualties of large-scale is the quality of water sources in the flooded areas.
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The Weather Channel
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is off to a fast start with four named storms forming before the end of June.
There have been several unusual aspects about this early-season activity. Below is a look back at some of the notables.
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IAEM
FEMA published a new policy, "Emergency Non-Congregate Sheltering during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency." This policy addresses the extraordinary challenges involved with operating a sheltering program during the pandemic, in a manner that limits the risk of exposure to or further transmission of the coronavirus. This policy outlines the framework and requirements for determining eligible work and costs for non-congregate sheltering operations in response to a presidentially-declared emergency or major disaster for the Public Assistance Program or a Fire Management Assistance Grant declaration. This policy is one aspect of a larger recovery strategy to support the safe sheltering of survivors in a COVID-19 environment. The intent is that state, local, tribal and territorial governments work with FEMA and other non-governmental partners to determine how non-congregate sheltering options may be incorporated into overall sheltering plans.
IAEM
FEMA created an exercise starter kit to help organizations facilitate their own internal workshops based on preparedness planning principles, "COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance for 2020 Hurricane Season" and a FEMA fact sheet on Preparedness in a Pandemic Exercise Starter Kit. The exercise starter kit includes a fact sheet, sample slides and a facilitator guide with suggested discussion questions that can be tailored to meet the needs of your organization or agency., local, tribal and territorial partners efforts to prepare for all-hazards in a pandemic environment.
Homeland Security Today
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Matthew Vollrath, a journalism Master’s student at Stanford, has created a podcast entitled “Climate in the Coronaverse.” This five-part series explores the linkages between the coronavirus and climate change, how we respond to both, the partisan divides impacting action, and more.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Near the end of the First World War, a deadly flu raced across the globe. The influenza pandemic became the most severe pandemic in recent history, infecting about one-third of the world’s population between 1918 and 1920 and killing between 50 and 100 million people. It was caused by an H1N1 virus that originated in birds and mutated to infect humans. Now a century later the world is amidst another global pandemic caused by a zoonotic disease that “jumped” from wildlife to people, a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Research conducted as part of the project EvacSound demonstrates that auditory guidance using sound beacons is an effective aid during the evacuation of smoke-filled road tunnels. This is good news. It is a fact that vehicle drivers and passengers cannot normally expect to be rescued by the emergency services during such accidents.
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IAEM
Due to the demands of COVID-19, certification candidates concerned about meeting a deadline in the AEM®/CEM® application/exam process should contact IAEM HQ at info@iaem.com. We recognize that your priority and focus is responding to the pandemic at this time, and IAEM Staff will provide a response and further details to each request received.
Bloomberg
Japan natural disaster evacuation plans need an overhaul as the country heads into its rainy season, experts warned, saying crowded conditions could spark coronavirus clusters that grow into another wave of infections.
The period of heavy precipitation, which typically triggers floods and landslides -- often forcing hundreds of people to take shelter together in gymnasiums -- has already settled in in some parts of Japan.
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The Associated Press via WTTV-TV
A vast cloud of Sahara dust is blanketing the Caribbean as it heads to the U.S. with a size and concentration that experts say hasn’t been seen in half a century.
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The Weather Channel
At least five people are dead after a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake rattled the Mexican state of Oaxaca Tuesday morning, shaking buildings and prompting a tsunami warning.
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Middle East Monitor
Five people have died after heavy rains caused floods in Bursa, northwestern Turkey, the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said today.
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The Logical Indian
The death toll in Assam due to the second wave of floods reached 11 after a person drowned in floodwaters at the Nazira area in Sivasagar district on Monday. Almost 30,000 people in Assam's Dhemaji, Sivasagar, Jorhat and Dibrugarh districts have been severely affected by the second wave of floods.
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Daily Sabah
Heavy rainfall and flash floods drenched Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul on Tuesday, with a rare tornado forming in the city’s westernmost areas, killing a Syrian refugee.
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Sixth Tone
The southwestern Chinese metropolis of Chongqing has experienced its worst floods in over two decades, as torrential rainfall batters nearly two-thirds of the country.
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