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On Nov. 14, 2017, at the IAEM Annual Conference in Long Beach, California, experts from the leading Silicon Valley technology companies, Airbnb, Box.org, Facebook, Google, Twilio.org, Twitter, and Uber, will participate in an interactive session to discuss their involvement in disaster response and recovery at the local and global levels. Learn about our panelists’ disaster programs and how you can access them. For more information about the conference, visit iaemconference.info and register today.
Reuters
During Sri Lanka's May floods, rescue crews in Kiriella, a small town in Rathnapura District, spotted a remarkable sight.
A middle-aged woman, trudging through waist-deep floodwater, clutched a rooster carefully above the torrent, while a small girl struggled to hold onto the woman's waist, at times barely able to keep her head above water.
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The First Latin American Congress of Emergency Managers, supported by AIGELAC (International Association of Emergency Managers of Latin America and the Caribbean) and IAEM (International Association of Emergency Managers), will be held Aug. 16-18, 2017, in conjunction with the 7th International Fair of Safety at Work (Expo Proteção) and the 11th Fair of Rescue, Pre-Hospital Attendance, Firefighting, and Chemical Emergencies (Expo Emergência) at Expo Center Norte in São Paulo, Brasil. The dual expos, which will bring together more than 300 exhibitors and around 50,000 professionals, will be accompanied by technical events and various seminars, workshops, and courses. Learn more from the event brochure.
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ZDNet
If you thought NBN was opaque, confused, and not very helpful at all, then you are not alone, as the Western Australian government agrees with this assessment.
Writing in a submission to the Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband Network, the WA government said its Office of the Government Chief Information Officer had attempted to work with NBN on a number of occasions, but received responses it described as opaque.
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IAEM
IAEM-USA members are urged to help build their professional network. Sponsor a colleague for membership before the Annual Membership Drive ends on Aug. 31, 2017, and receive credit that may be applied to IAEM products (store, membership and conference). Visit www.iaem.com/USA2017MembershipDrive to learn how to sponsor a member. Support the membership drive by sending us a short (less than one minute) mobile phone video sharing how IAEM-USA membership enhances your role in emergency management. Email it to membership@iaem.com. Be sure to mention the value of IAEM-USA membership to colleagues. Please review the member video guidelines. If you are not an IAEM-USA member and do not have a sponsor, we will help you join during the drive and provide a special incentive. You may follow the link to the Membership Drive and join. All new members receive a $15 credit to be applied to IAEM products.
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IAEM
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, and Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds recently announced that their states intend to opt in to the FirstNet network. These states join Virginia and Wyoming in pledging to accept FirstNet’s advanced technologies that will help first responders save lives and protect communities. For states and territories that elect to opt in, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) and its network provider, AT&T, will deploy, operate and maintain FirstNet at no cost for 25 years. Once a state/territory opts in, FirstNet becomes available to its public safety community. States/territories that choose to opt out are responsible for deploying, operating, maintaining, and improving a FirstNet-compatible public safety network in their state/territory at their own cost. For the latest news, visit FirstNet.gov.
IAEM
The IAEM-Global Student Council reminds all IAEM student members that entries are open until Aug. 1, 2017, in the 2017 Student Essay Competition. Competing in the essay competition provides the opportunity for IAEM student members to show their talent, develop ideas, and share their knowledge and views on a critical emergency management issue – the whole community approach to emergency management. Download the essay competition guidelines for details, and submit your essay to iaemgsc@gmail.com by Aug. 1, 2017.
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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.
TheStreet
Lloyd's of London analysts said an extreme global cyber attack could cost as much as $121.4 billion in damages, equivalent to the cost of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Bloomberg reported.
In the hypothetical attack, the failure of a widely-used cloud-based service provider would cost about $53 billion.
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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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Gizmodo
Tornadoes aren’t hurricanes. Hurricanes are long-lasting, low-pressure swirls that follow somewhat predictable paths. But tornadoes can pop up and disappear in just a few minutes. It hasn’t been easy to give people fair warning about tornadoes, especially those folks caught in the crosshairs of violently-rotating columns of damaging, high-speed winds.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Employees at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have been fired and disciplinary action against other personnel was taken after small amounts of radioactive material were mistakenly shipped aboard a commercial cargo plane. Nuclear experts say the mishap could have led to serious consequences. The rapid pressure changes during flights could have damaged the packaging, causing radiation to escape.
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Domestic Preparedness
The FEMA Corps Program is the result of a revolutionized partnership between the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Established in 2012, FEMA Corps falls under the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps umbrella. Its members travel across the country assisting FEMA and its partners with disaster preparedness, response, and recovery initiatives.
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Domestic Preparedness
On May 22, 2017, DomPrep held a panel discussion on “Responders of the Future” at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. In concert with that event, Secure Schools Alliance Research and Education (the Alliance) released its brief, “Securing Our Schools: Partner Roles and Responsibilities.” Together, these offerings provide significant insight on the power that students can play in the safety and security of their schools.
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IAEM
The deadline for articles on “Lessons Learned” for the IAEM Bulletin was extended last week to Monday, July 24, 2017, so you still have time to be a part of this special focus issue. 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; or how standards can bridge the interfaces between countries and between jurisdictions. If you’re not sure your idea for an article will fit what we’re requesting, 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 by July 24, 2017. And remember, an article published in the Bulletin can help you meet the Publications requirement if you’re an AEM® or CEM® candidate.
Domestic Preparedness
On June , 2017, the Urban Assembly School for Emergency Management (UASEM), the first high school in the United States dedicated to the field, graduated its first cohort of students. Over the past four years, UASEM has engaged students in exploring careers in first response through trips to the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) training headquarters, logistics at the New York City Emergency Management Emergency Operations Center, and internships in emergency management organizations across the region.
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Domestic Preparedness
If someone were to walk into a high school classroom today and ask the students about their future professions, there may be one or possibly two students who wish to pursue emergency management. However, as much as the field has grown since 2001, emergency management is still not the dream career of the average high school student. It is much more likely that these students would consider more traditional fields in the business, health, or finance world.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Our economy, livelihood and well-being depend on food and its supply chains. Supply chains may break if a natural disaster destroys a crop in its primary production region, or if someone tampers with food to cause harm or raise profits. In such cases we need to find out quickly about these incidents and find alternative sources of food ingredients and supplies.
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Big Island Now
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) researchers have discovered a new method for predicting when lava flow-forming volcanoes will stop erupting using infrared satellite data.
UHM graduate student Estelle Bonny and her mentor, researcher Robert Wright of the Hawai‘i Institute for Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP), tested a hypothesis first published in 1981 using data gathered for nearly two decades by NASA satellites.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Researchers are experimenting with technologies designed to empower the civilian population in times of crisis. They aim to establish basic communications and means to share information, thus facilitating human cooperation and mutual aid even following wide-spread power and internet outages.
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IAEM
If you have recently earned your IAEM certification or successfully recertified, brag a little. IAEM provides a press release for you to submit to your local paper as well as a letter notifying your employer of your accomplishment. Information about how to access these resources can be found in your notification letter. Congratulations on your achievement.
IAEM
The Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response (ASPR) recently announced the publication of Step Care for Ebola/Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Patients: Guidance for International Field Hospitals. Developed by Dr. John Hick, this document is intended to help organizations that want to provide care to EVD/VHF patients in resource-restricted settings determine an appropriate level of medical care that they can provide and anticipate the supplies that may be needed to do so. The document is available at the Technical Resources, Assistance Center, & Information Exchange (TRACIE) website.
Houston Chronicle
Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management public information officer Francisco Sanchez has been selected to serve on a body to advise federal officials on how best to respond to emergencies, county officials announced this week.
Sanchez was selected to serve on the Federal Emergency Management Agency National Advisory Council Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Subcommittee.
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IAEM
Remote Sensing Solutions Inc. and the Dartmouth Flood Observatory (DFO) have been awarded a NASA Small Business Innovative Research award to develop a “one-stop-shop” for global flood disaster response assistance. The goal is to build upon and expand the DFO flood portal that makes use of the Web Mapping Service. The researchers would like you to inform us about the needs and requirements of your organization to make this portal more useful. What data/layers should be included? What functionality is currently missing or could be improved? Would you like to see the option of “customization” or “tailoring” a product for purchase? Do you have other ideas? Before completing the survey, please test out the WMS (Flood Portal) at the DFO, if you have not already done so, by clicking on one of the continents at this link. Please take three minutes of your time to complete this survey.
IAEM
Hosted by the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation, the National Geospatial Preparedness Summit (NGPS) is the only U.S. preparedness summit dedicated to advancing the use of location-enabled decision support technology and data. It will be held Aug. 8-9, 2017, at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Supported by IAEM, this event brings together public safety practitioners and GIS responders – to build skills in developing and implementing GIS-based decision support tools, share best practices, build peer relationships, and validate skills and capabilities through workshops and exercises. All of the training workshops and materials are provided at no cost to public-sector participants from federal, local, state, and tribal government. Visit the event site to view the agenda and register online.
NPR
A flash flood swept through central Arizona on Saturday, killing at least nine people who had gathered at a popular swimming hole for a birthday celebration.
The family was relaxing alongside a mountain stream in Tonto National Forest, unaware that summer thunderstorms had just dropped heavy rains upstream.
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The Guardian
Dozens of homes have been evacuated on the south coast of Cornwall as flash floods sweep through the county after violent thunderstorms on Tuesday afternoon.
Cornwall Fire and Rescue told people to avoid the Coverack area because of “major flooding.”
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The Atlantic
Recent high temperatures and dry, windy conditions across southern Europe have resulted in thousands of small wildfires and a few large large blazes in Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, France, Portugal, and more. Although thousands have been evacuated, and tens of thousands of acres have burned, authorities claim to have most fires under control at the moment. Collected here are images of the situation from the past week.
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Los Angeles Times
A massive wildfire in Mariposa County triggered a new round of evacuations Tuesday as flames threatened power lines that feed Yosemite National Park, officials said.
Approximately 4,000 people have been forced from their homes since the Detwiler fire, which is burning east of Lake McClure, exploded to 25,000 acres, with hundreds of firefighters trudging through steep terrain to reach flames in overgrown vegetation, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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NPR
Wildfires are spreading rapidly across the Canadian province of British Columbia, so far eluding firefighters and forcing some 40,000 people from their homes. And with no rain in the forecast until Thursday, Canadian officials fear the fires currently raging will worsen before they can battle back the blazes.
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CNBC
The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said Monday evening that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake had occurred off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.
"Based on preliminary earthquake parameters ... hazardous tsunami waves are possible for coasts located within 186 miles of the earthquake epicenter," the center wrote in an official message soon after the quake.
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The Star Online
The death toll from severe monsoon flooding across India has risen to at least 76, officials said, with eight people killed in the past day in the worst-hit states.
Heavy rain in Gujarat has claimed 11 lives since Saturday as the monsoon intensified across the western state.
“Seven of these died in the last 24 hours and at least four others are still missing,” Pankaj Kumar, a Gujarat government official, said.
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SABC News
Typhoon Talas has wrecked havoc across China and Vietnam, leaving a trail of destruction. This is the fourth typhoon in 2017.
Heavy rain has brought strong winds and showers causing severe flooding.
Torrential rain and hail continue to hit parts of southwest China's Sichuan Province, delaying flights and disrupting local traffic.
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