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Did you hear the news? This year, IAEM is 65 years old and is celebrating with a focus on membership. Send us a short (less than one minute) mobile phone video telling us what you do for emergency management and how IAEM-USA helps. Email it to membership@iaem.com. Be sure to mention IAEM-USA membership value to colleagues, and review the member video guidelines. In our current membership drive, both new and referring IAEM-USA members receive valuable credit to use toward products, conference or membership fees, when new members register online before Aug. 31, 2017.
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Full-time students working towards a degree in emergency management, disaster management, or a closely related field, wishing to apply for an IAEM Scholarship, must apply by 11:59 p.m. EDT, tomorrow, June 30, 2017. Graduate and undergraduate applications with complete instructions are available on the IAEM website. Questions may be directed to Scholarship Program Director Dawn Shiley.
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Register today for the next IAEM Think Tank event, “Large Event Crisis Planning – a Private Sector Perspective,” to be held July 18, 2017, 2:00-3:30 p.m. EDT. Crisis planning for large events is now on the mind of many emergency managers due to recent headlines, and this concern is especially high for private sector companies that host thousands of people at events or at their sites. This IAEM Think Tank will provide a behind-the-scenes look at large event crisis planning from a private sector perspective, including a discussion of how to engage with government responders to develop a seamless response plan. Join Andrea Davis, director of global crisis management and business continuity at The Walt Disney Company; George Fong, director of facilities and event security at ESPN; and Richard Serino, IAEM Think Tank moderator, for an inside look at this timely topic.
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The IAEM Editorial Work Group is seeking articles on “Lessons Learned,” and the article submission deadline is July 10, 2017. Please consider writing a feature article for the August 2017 IAEM Bulletin special focus issue on “Lessons Learned.” We know that you all have stories to tell, and it’s time to share your experiences, knowledge, and wisdom with your fellow IAEM members. 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. If you have an idea for an article, but you’re not sure it will fit into this issue, email a paragraph or two describing what you want to write about, and we’ll supply you with feedback. Read the author’s guidelines, and email your 750 to 1,500 word article to Editor Karen Thompson.
Xinhuanet
China issued a grade-IV emergency response on Monday following rain, storms and flooding across central China's Hunan Province, which have left six dead and one missing.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs and China National Commission for Disaster Reduction have sent teams to assist in disaster-hit areas.
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POLITICO
Within hours of Portugal asking the EU for help as forest fires raged out of control near Coimbra and Leiria, “water bomber” planes were on their way from France, Italy and Spain as were around 120 Spanish firefighters and 26 vehicles. Within a few days, Cyprus and Greece had also offered help to Portuguese firefighters — all coordinated by a small team of blue-uniformed European Commission officials in Brussels.
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Jamaican Information Service
A national strategy is being developed by the government to ensure the continuity of its operation and that of state entities, in the event Jamaica is severely impacted by major natural disasters, such as an earthquake or intense hurricane.
The plan is being facilitated under the 2016/17 Jamaica-Mexico Bilateral Cooperation Agreement, which entails the implementation of projects in 13 areas, including agriculture, the environment and disaster prevention.
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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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The Courier Mail
Cyclone Debbie’s disaster has spun into a sweeping overhaul of the state’s emergency protocols.
Fourteen deaths, $2 billion of damage and Queensland’s biggest-yet mass evacuation exposed fatal flaws in the state’s disaster response.
Thousands of north Queensland residents defied police orders to evacuate homes as the Category 4 system rolled towards the coast.
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PBS NewsHour
The tornado hit the suburbs of east New Orleans at lunchtime on a mild Tuesday in February.
The twister spun across mid-century ranch houses still etched with the spray-painted symbols that search and rescue squads left after Hurricane Katrina. At its calmest, the tornado tugged at asphalt shingles. At its most vicious, it flipped parked cars and snatched entire roofs and walls from their frames.
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IAEM
The nominations period will end tomorrow, June 30, 2017, at 5:00 p.m. EDT for those candidates who wish to run for IAEM-USA Second Vice President and Treasurer. To be placed on the ballot, candidates must submit these items via email to info@iaem.com by the deadline: a letter stating candidacy; a letter of permission from the candidate’s immediate supervisor supporting the time and travel necessary to fulfill duties of office; a 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 an Individual 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. For more details, see the IAEM-USA Administrative Policies & Procedures and visit the IAEM-USA News web page.
Homeland Security News Wire
Floods are the natural disaster that kill the most people. They are also the most common natural disaster. As the threat of flooding increases worldwide, a group of scientists at LSU have gathered valuable information on flood hazard, exposure and vulnerability in counties throughout the United States.
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The Hill
Growing concerns about threats to U.S. election systems have put the heat on the Department of Homeland Security and its efforts to boost national cybersecurity.
Homeland Security officials testified this week before the Senate Intelligence Committee that they have evidence that Russia targeted election-related systems in 21 states as part of its wider effort to influence the presidential election.
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IAEM
FEMA this week released 48 Core Capability Development Sheets to help state, local, tribal, and territorial jurisdictions build and sustain their core capabilities as well as close capability gaps identified through the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment, the State Preparedness Report, or other capability assessments. The National Preparedness Goal identifies the core capabilities needed by all jurisdictions to be fully prepared to prevent, protect, mitigate against, respond to, and recover from all hazards and to be able to implement the National Preparedness System. Each sheet provides the core capability definition and tasks, relevant trainings, example capability targets, typed resources, critical planning partners, validation techniques, and additional organizations that support development or delivery of the specific capability. Download the sheets by mission area – Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, and Recovery – or as a complete set.
CNBC
Wildfire season is just getting underway, but the recent heatwave, dry conditions and abundant growth of grasses from heavy winter rains is already spelling danger for California.
According to Cal Fire, more than 19,000 acres of land had been scorched in the year-to-date period through Thursday — representing a threefold increase over of the amount burned in the same period a year ago.
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IAEM
Following an internal FEMA management review of the Chemical, Ordnance, Biological, and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF) at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) in Anniston, Alabama, FEMA leadership is working to address the key recommendations in the report, and take the necessary courses of action to restart the live agent training, while maintaining the highest standard of safety culture. To support the next phase, additional leadership support is necessary to fully implement recommendations and lead a culture of change, while carrying out day-to-day training facility operations. To oversee the additional changes, FEMA Senior Executive Tony Russell who currently serves as the superintendent of FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI) in Emmitsburg, Maryland, will join the CDP leadership team on detail and serve as the acting superintendent, effective July 10, 2017. Russell joins Bruce Bush, who resumes his position as CDP’s deputy superintendent, to together lead the CDP in Its commitment to having an emergency response community prepared for and capable of responding to all-hazards events. The CDP provides unique, hands on training to more than 45,000 emergency responders a year from state, local and tribal agencies. Additionally, Paul Butki will serve as the acting Emergency Management Institute superintendent during Mr. Russell’s detail.
Homeland Security News Wire
Biological agents including viruses, bacteria, and toxins, can devastate local economies with their potential effects on humans and livestock. In addition to potentially catastrophic immediate impact, these agents could also set in motion long-term disasters, causing regional instability and challenging international security.
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IAEM
IAEM Headquarters is maintaining a list of IAEM members who have a current student membership and wish to be considered for a student registration fee 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.
Forbes
Yellowstone supervolcano was recently hit with over 450 earthquakes, prompting scientists to closely monitor the area. The first of the swarm of earthquakes began on June 12 and continued in the following days, including up to a 4.5 magnitude earthquake.
It's important to note that despite Yellowstone supervolcano's ability to erupt catastrophically, there do not appear to be signs that this swarm of earthquakes is leading to an eruption.
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NewsDay
Each country has its share of red zones, disaster troubled spots that are fragile and can be volatile during encounters with destructive floods, violent winds or earthquakes. As such, every nation should have a special inventory of those trouble spots, so that when disasters strike, they can be ready to manage them in order to safeguard human lives, livestock and property.
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Phys.org
Every year disasters take lives, cause significant damage, inhibit development and contribute to conflict and forced migration. Unfortunately, the trend is an upward one.
In May 2017, policy-makers and disaster management experts from over 180 countries gathered in Cancun, Mexico, to discuss ways to counter this trend.
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Domestic Preparedness
The term “fit for duty” in modern firefighting goes beyond being physically fit to include being resilient to the stress and emotional effects of the job. For individual resilience, this means having the ability to prepare for and recover from stressful events so the responder can return to duty with some sense of normality. To accomplish this, responders must sleep well, eat right, and positively engage with peers.
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IAEM
Watch this short video for comments from past conference attendees, who assert that the IAEM Annual Conference & EMEX is the premier emergency management event of the year. Visit our conference website to access our detailed program, view photo and video highlights from last year, and learn more about the benefits of conference attendance. Register now to lock in early bird savings, and book your hotel accommodations for Long Beach, Nov. 10-15, 2017.
Domestic Preparedness
No organization, or government, can solve every problem. There will always be a crisis that will require an emergency response. And fundamental to the success of that response will be the public’s reaction. Emergency managers can react and can mobilize, but they will not be successful unless they do so in such a way as to ensure the public trust. This was apparent in 2005 with Hurricane Katrina, which was a crisis of government.
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Reuters via ReliefWeb
When floods swept through this small town in Sri Lanka's Southern Province, 12-year-old Radhika Dayarathne lost more than her home.
The floodwaters that destroyed her family's house and most of their possessions also swept away her and her older brother's school books, school bags and uniforms, leaving them uncertain whether they can return to school.
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HuffPost
In a disaster, we say tune to local TV and radio stations for information from your community officials. In the age of social media, is that still relevant? To over half of your audience, the answer is yes, 57 percent of people surveyed said they rely on local TV and radio stations in an emergency. The local news stations are the first informers in emergencies and disasters.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Earthquakes and explosions damage thousands of structures worldwide each year, destroying countless lives in their wake, but a team of researchers at Penn State is examining a completely new way of safeguarding key infrastructure, thanks to a $50,000 Multidisciplinary Research Seed Grant provided by the College of Engineering.
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IT News Africa
In the midst of the worst wildfire to strike the southern Cape coast, South Africa in over 150 years, drones slowly started coming into play as a local firefighting and disaster management tool.
Firefighters issued a call for drones equipped with heat mapping capabilities, which would allow them to identify hot spots at the greatest risk of flare-ups — a task virtually impossible for ground crews working in blinding smoke and dense undergrowth.
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The Associated Press via The Washington Times
Civilian drones are forcing firefighters to ground their aircraft, slowing their ability to fight Arizona wildfires.
The Arizona Republic reports another unauthorized drone was spotted Sunday, temporarily halting aerial efforts to put out a fire northwest of Flagstaff.
Public Information Officer with the Bureau of Land Management Dennis Godfrey says it’s the second drone that has been observed at the fire.
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Domestic Preparedness
The use of facial recognition technologies to support public safety has long been considered a potent tool for law enforcement. The capability to automatically identify persons of interest in real-time has the potential to alert police of threats before an incident occurs. Long considered a technology of science fiction, FR is finally moving into the public safety mainstream with new capabilities now being rolled out.
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IAEM
The IAEM Certification Webinar Series is a four-part free virtual offering hosted by the Certification Commission to walk candidates through the requirements of the application. The last webinar is July 13 at 3:00 p.m. EDT. Registration details can be found on the IAEM website, as well as recordings of the previous webinars in the series.
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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response’s (ASPR) Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE) recently published the EMS Infectious Disease Playbook. This resource was developed to address occupational exposure to a potentially infectious patient. ASPR/TRACIE incorporated existing official guidance and best practice information into this one-stop resource that can guide the transport of patients known or suspected of having an infectious disease. The aim was not to develop novel guidance for EMS agencies, but to unify multiple sources of information in a single planning document addressing the full spectrum of infectious agents to create a concise reference resource for EMS agencies developing their service policies. This document does not represent official policy of HHS/ASPR or other federal or private agencies.
GCN
A new virtual training platform is now available free to first responders.
The Department of Homeland Security's Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment is a multiplayer, scalable, online platform that trains responders — single agencies or across agencies, jurisdictions or disciplines — for a coordinated response to active shooter incidents.
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Outbreak News Today
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have developed an evidence-informed checklist that outlines action steps for medical and public health officials to assess and strengthen the resilience of their community’s health sector to high-consequence infectious disease events.
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IAEM
Since 2012, the Department of Homeland Security has provided more than $47 million in Homeland Security National Training Program Continuing Training Grants (CTG) awards. This week, FEMA announced that $8 million in Fiscal Year 2017 CTG funding is available to develop and deliver FEMA training to address specific focus areas: cybersecurity, economic recovery, housing, and rural and tribal preparedness. This competitive program attracts applications from around the nation, including state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, non-profit local and national organizations, colleges and universities, and faith-based organizations. Complete instructions to apply are found in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), posted on Grants.gov, listed under Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number 97.005, Continuing Training Grants. FEMA will review, evaluate and score proposals by applying a methodology that is detailed in the NOFO. The CTG application period opened on June 26, 2017, and will close at 11:59 p.m. EDT on July 26, 2017. Awards will be made by Sept. 30, 2017.
The Indian Express
The damage caused due to floods in Assam worsened on Friday with reports of over 82,000 people being affected in four districts in the state, news agency PTI reported. A report submitted by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority stated that more than 82,500 people were affected by floods in Lakhimpur, Darrang, Udalguri and Karimganj districts. The report also added that 146 villages in the state are under water and over 500 hectares of agricultural land have been damaged.
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DW
A 50-year-old man was killed when his car was struck by a tree in the town of Uelzen in Lower Saxony, as the German weather service DWD confirmed that a tornado had caused widespread damage across northern Germany.
A cyclist was also severely injured by another tree nearby as the atypical weather pattern hit the region.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Official reports into Portugal's deadliest natural disaster in decades have described freak conditions that drove the wildfire that killed 64 people, while Portuguese authorities said Thursday they have contained a second fire that raged for five days close by.
More than 2,000 firefighters and some two dozen water-dropping aircraft fought the two fires for days and nights amid strong winds and temperatures above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) as the country's annual wildfire season started earlier than usual.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Rain bands reeling away from Tropical Depression Cindy spread drenching rains from the Southeast to the Midwest, triggering flash flood warnings over several states including West Virginia, whose residents on Friday marked the anniversary of deadly floods last June.
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SunStar
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit off Guatemala's Pacific coast Thursday, shaking much of the country and neighboring El Salvador. Officials said four people were injured and only minor damage was reported. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6:31 a.m. quake was centered about 24 miles southwest of Puerto San Jose and six miles below the surface. People in El Salvador fled into the streets.
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NPR
More than 90 people remain missing after rescuers found 10 bodies among the debris of a landslide in the town of Xinmo in southwest China's Sichuan province that happened Saturday.
Local officials had first estimated more than 120 people and 62 homes were buried under tons of rubble.
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The Associated Press via Journal of Emergency Medical Services
A second landslide struck the village in southwest China where rescue workers have been looking for nearly 100 people buried over the weekend by a massive wave of rocks and debris.
Chinese state radio said the latest landslide struck the village of Xinmo in Sichuan province at around 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Government teams were ordered to evacuate the site on Monday after radar detected shifts in the mountain, signaling another imminent collapse.
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GulfNews
A dozen warehouses were destroyed in a massive fire that broke out in Sharjah’s industrial area 13 on Monday. Authorities earlier said four warehouses were destroyed in the blaze.
The warehouses contained building materials and wood, authorities said.
Police said the fire started at around 12:18 p.m. Sharjah firefighters quickly battled the flames and prevented it from spreading to adjacent premises.
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The Sun
Six people are dead and at least 28 missing after a boat carrying 150 tourists sunk on a Colombian reservoir during a long holiday weekend in the South American country.
A huge rescue mission — involving rescue boats and divers — is still underway in the Guatape reservoir near Medellin after the tragedy last night.
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CBS News
Firefighters are keeping an eye the smoldering ruins of an abandoned mill after a fire gutted the structure and lit up the night sky in in Sanford, Maine.
More than 100 firefighters from Maine and New Hampshire responded Friday evening as the blaze swept through part of the 95-year-old building that was once the Stenton Trust Mill. Firefighters doused part of the 300,000-square-foot building with water from outside because of concerns the structure might collapse.
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