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IAEM
This week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and several partner organizations (including IAEM) released two video presentations from the Youth Preparedness PrepTalks Symposium held on May 30, 2018, in Long Branch, New Jersey. Dr. Lori Peek's PrepTalk, "Children and Disasters: Reducing Vulnerability and Building Capacity," brings to life the progress, ongoing challenges and possibilities to reduce the vulnerability of children to disasters. She gives emergency managers five specific actions to take to reduce the vulnerability of children to disasters right now. Sarah Thompson's PrepTalk, "Youth: The Key to Building a Culture of Preparedness," highlights how children are great mobilizers, actors and connectors within their communities for building a culture of preparedness. Thompson uses her experience and sociological data to show how emergency managers can use the natural curiosity of children to build preparedness in their communities. Download the videos, Q&A sessions and discussion guides related to these talks at https://www.fema.gov/preptalks.
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IAEM
The IAEM Conference Committee has created a step-by-step guide to help demonstrate return on investment and gain approval to attend the IAEM 66th Annual Conference & EMEX in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Oct. 19-24, 2018. We know the economy impacts training budgets first, and you need to justify spending time and money to attend the IAEM conference. By following this five-step guide, you will demonstrate the positive ROI to be gained by you and your organization from your attendance at the IAEM conference. Download the guide and register today.
UNISDR
Government ministers and civil servants from across Asia and the Pacific are back at their desks with a fresh mandate to accelerate action on reducing disaster losses and disaster displacement as extreme weather continues across the region.
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The Jerusalem Post
Israel's Defense Ministry, along with the security establishment and the National Emergency Authority, will hold an emergency meeting after over 10 earthquakes struck around the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret) in recent days. According to a report by Israel's Channel 2, the meeting will discuss the possibility that relevant authorities may have to be activated at a moment's notice, and therefore instructions have already been issued to refresh emergency procedures.
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eTurboNews
Hon Edmund Bartlett is confirming strong regional support for the establishment of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre, which is expected to be operational in September. The center will be housed at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and is being designed to help vulnerable states across the world to recover quickly from natural disasters. It will specifically target destination preparedness, management and recovery from disruptions and/or crises that threaten economies and livelihoods globally with real-time data and effective communication.
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Homeland Security Today
Martyn Dunne, director of New Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries, which oversees biosecurity efforts, fisheries, food safety, operational responses to health concerns and regulation for forestry, argues that protecting against biothreats is as big of a concern as other threats to national security. The island nation has taken measures in recent years to combat threats including pests, diseases or potentially contaminated baby formula by identifying specific risks and developing improved communication with global trade partners to resolve issues that pose serious threats.
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Homeland Security Today
The Federal Emergency Management Agency extended the Public Assistance Alternative Procedures Debris Pilot through June 27, 2019, to collect additional data about the effectiveness of the pilot program. The data FEMA collects is used to assess the program's effectiveness in advancing the goals identified in the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act.
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FEMA/EMI
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Emergency Management Institute recently released two revised online National Incident Management System courses. NIMS defines the comprehensive approach guiding the whole community to work together during incidents. The two new courses are: (1) IS-100.c, "An Introduction to the Incident Command System," which introduces ICS and provides the foundation for higher level training, and (2) IS-700.b, "An Introduction to the National Incident Management System," which offers an overview providing learners with a basic understanding of NIMS concepts, principles and components. The courses are available online.
Campus Safety
School security advocates demanded more guidance from the government as findings of an ongoing study on state school security requirements revealed minimal standards that vary widely. The study, which is being conducted by the Police Foundation, shows only 15 states had some type of school facility security requirements prior to the Parkland, Florida shooting.
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IAEM
The IAEM Editorial Work Group asks that you consider writing an article for the upcoming IAEM Bulletin special focus issue on "Climate Change: An Emerging Threat." The deadline for article submissions has been extended to July 20, 2018. Articles might include, but are not limited to: coastal mitigation; increased needs for shelters (heating shelters, cooling shelters); how adaptation to climate change is defined; demographic changes; immigration; U.S. federal government website with resources on climate change; NASA resources with worldwide information available via database; global responses to climate change/climate adaptation, anticipated increase in weather extremes, case studies. These are just examples of articles. You may identify another aspect of climate change as it relates to emergency management that you would like to write about. Article length is 750-1,500 words. Please refer to the author guidelines for details, and email any questions to Editor Karen Thompson.
Route Fifty
Firefighters battling the West Valley Fire in the southwestern Utah had to ground their aircraft due to an unauthorized aerial drone flying over the blaze, prompting this important reminder: "If you fly, we can't. Help us keep our firefighters safe!"
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Homeland Security Today
The effort is a joint partnership between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate and Canada's Department of National Defence science and technology organization, Defence Research and Development Canada Centre for Security Science, to ensure both American and Canadian next-generation first responders are better connected, protected and fully aware during critical incidents.
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Emergency Management
As a ferocious hurricane bears down on South Florida, water managers desperately lower canals in anticipation of 4 feet of rain. That is one scenario for hurricanes in a warmer world, a subject of fiendish complexity and considerable scientific research.
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UN Office for Outer Space Affairs via ReliefWeb
India's Central Water Commission has signed a collaboration agreement with Google that will help crisis management agencies deal with extreme hydrological events, such as floods, more effectively. The agreement allows CWC to make use of Google's artificial intelligence, machine learning and geospatial mapping expertise for effective water management and flood forecasting.
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Pennsylvania State University
A team of researchers from Penn State, the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and the Qatar Computing Research Institute created an algorithm that analyzes Twitter data to identify smaller disaster-related events, known as sub-events, and generate highly accurate, real-time summaries that can be used to guide response activities.
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Newsweek
MIT scientists think a robot that moves like a cheetah could help rescue people in disaster zones. It's blind, but scientists designed its flexible joints and agile limbs to be just as versatile as any creature found in nature.
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Homeland Security Today
Light loses less energy and move faster than electrons moving through electrical cables, making fiber-optic cables more efficient — which is why they are the favorite for telecommunications like high-speed broadband. Now, the cables already underground around the world could come in handy for another reason. They may provide a low-cost way to detect earthquakes.
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IAEM
IAEM's most-attended certification preparatory course and exam offering will be held on Oct. 21, 2018, in conjunction with the IAEM Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Registration will open soon through the IAEM website. The preparatory course fee is $495, and the certification exam fee is $395 for IAEM members and $595 for non-members.
The Cullman Times
At its annual banquet this year, the Alabama Association of Emergency Managers presented Cullman EMA director Phyllis Little with the Pat Neuhauser Spirit of EMA Award, a once-only designation recognizing an EMA leader "who is dedicated, faithful and loyal with a high level of enthusiasm in promoting emergency management and a willingness to share and serve," according to the organization.
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IAEM
The FEMA Emergency Management Institute is offering a webinar on July 17, 2018, 2:00-3:30 p.m. EDT, featuring "Highlights from the 20th Annual Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium." If you miss the symposium this year or want to continue the dialogue and thinking that emerged from your attendance, plan to attend this interactive webinar. Presentations will be provided by the Higher Education Program manager, faculty presenters and participants. If you have a story or highlight you would like to share during this webinar, contact Wendy Walsh at wendy.walsh@fema.dhs.gov. Register online today. Conference call-in will be available at 800-320-4330 (pin: 376368). The 2018 symposium agenda is posted online.
IAEM
The National Information Sharing Consortium will be hosting a webinar with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Emergency Services Section on the DHS Office for Bombing Prevention . The webinar will describe the full spectrum of products, services and offerings from the DHS OBP, to include counter-IED information sharing through the Technical Resource for Incident Prevention, the extensive C-IED training and solutions program, as well as the C-IED Capability Assessment and Planning to include the National Counter-IED Capabilities Analysis Database and Multi-Jurisdiction IED Security Planning Program. The webinar will be held 1:00-2:00 p.m. EDT, July 26, 2018. Learn more and register for this webinar online.
IAEM
Planning is well underway for the 2018 IAEM-USA Region 1 Conference being hosted by Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, on Nov. 16, 2018. The conference planning committee is putting together a great lineup of speakers and activities. Registration is now open and can be accessed on the IAEM website.
Chicago Tribune
Rescuers were combing through mud-covered hillsides and along riverbanks searching for dozens of people missing after heavy rains unleashed flooding and mudslides in southwestern Japan, where the death toll has exceeded 150. Work under the scorching sun was hampered by mud and heat, and shipments of relief goods were delayed by damaged roads and transportation systems, especially in areas isolated by the disaster.
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Times Live
The vessel, carrying 30 traders and their wares, overturned in high winds on a river in the Isa district of Nigeria's northwestern Sokoto state during a heavy downpour. Eight passengers were rescued, and the body of one of the passengers was recovered, Suleiman Karim of the National Emergency Management Agency said.
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Daily Express
Taiwan is bracing for super typhoon Maria as the swirling vortex tracks northwards toward the island. Typhoon Maria is on course to lash Japan's Ryukyu Islands before barrelling into China, south of Shanghai.
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Reuters via NDTV
Twenty-four people were killed in northwest Turkey when a train headed for Istanbul derailed following heavy rain and a landslide, making it the worst train disaster in the country in more than 14 years. Two train drivers were summoned for questioning by police over the accident, state news agency Anadolu reported.
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UPI
More than 20,000 homes and businesses were without power as Beryl, the Atlantic season's first hurricane passed over Puerto Rico, including at least 1,500 who have been without electricity since Hurricane Maria devastated the island last year, Lt. Gov. Luis Rivera Marín told the Miami Herald. About 60,000 homes were still covered by tarps after Hurricane Maria destroyed roofs, and several temporary bridges were still in place.
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