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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. Michele Gay, a mother of three, former teacher, and co-founder of Safe and Sound Schools (a nonprofit started by Sandy Hook parents to support school crisis prevention, response, and recovery), spoke on “Rethinking School Safety." She relays her personal experience as the parent of a child killed in the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. Kristina Anderson, founder of the The Koshka Foundation for Safe Schools (a non-profit dedicated to helping local community and school stakeholders work together to prevent, respond, and heal in the aftermath of school violence), presented “Safety is Personal: Lessons Learned as a Survivor of the Virginia Tech Tragedy." Videos of the presentations and question-and-answer sessions, a discussion guide on youth preparedness, and related resources are available at https://www.fema.gov/preptalks.
IAEM
Download the new fact sheet developed by ASPR TRACIE that provides information on general durable medical equipment (DME) categories and focuses on electricity-dependent DME that may be affected by disasters and emergencies, including power failures. The fact sheet also includes information to assist healthcare system preparedness stakeholders plan for medically vulnerable populations who rely on DME.
Campus Safety
The Secret Service’s newly-released report on creating programs for conducting a threat assessment in schools provides a guide for officials to compare to their own systems.
The report was released by the agency’s National Threat Assessment Center, which was created in 1998 to provide guidance and training on threat assessments to criminal justice and public safety professionals.
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IAEM
Are you only interested in certain topics or interest areas? Do you want to see all the speakers who are presenting? Do you want to plan out the sessions you will attend in advance of your arrival at IAEM 2018? Do you need to show your employer the detailed content of the sessions and topics being presented at IAEM 2018 to gain approval to attend? The IAEM Annual Conference Program is now available and can be searched to answer all of these questions. View the program online and register today.
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Rappler
President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his call for Congress to pass a law creating a Department of Disaster Management during his 3rd State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 23.
"We in the Cabinet have approved for immediate endorsement to Congress the passage of a law creating the Department of Disaster Management," said Duterte, reading from his speech.
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Money Control
It is a part of the regular protocol for BMC's Disaster Management Cell (DMC) to trouble-shoot in the monsoon season, where they receive approximately 1,000 phone calls on any typical day. During heavy rainfalls. the number increases up to 3,000, as per a report in The Times of India.
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Japan has reopened three beaches in regions devastated by the 2011 tsunami and resulting Fukushima nuclear disaster after years of reconstruction efforts, officials said. Local officials in Fukushima said they hoped the opening of the Haragamaobama beach would help change perceptions of the region, which has become inextricably linked with the 2011 disaster.
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IAEM
IAEM-Canada members may now obtain the official record of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) by downloading the minutes. They are maintained on the IAEM-Canada AGM documents web page.
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The 2019 CatIQ Connect (formerly known as C4), Canada’s Catastrophe Conference, will take place on Feb. 4-6, 2019, at the Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, Ontario. Registration is now open, and you can save $100 by registering before Oct. 31, 2018. CatIQ Connect is a content-driven discussion to foster collaboration before, during and after catastrophic events. This conference provides an overview of catastrophes, discusses strategies in catastrophe management, and explores sector perspectives. Overall themes are on preparedness and resiliency, available tools, and impacted stakeholder and policy makers working together for the greater good of all Canadians. Complete details and registration are online at the event site. IAEM-Canada is a community partner of CatIQ Connect.
KBC
Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa wants county governments to establish disaster management teams and policies to save lives and property in the event of a disaster.
Wamalwa has also called on the county assemblies to enact legislation that would guide the establishment of the disaster response and management teams.
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Route Fifty
State and local officials expressed support for legislation allowing them to put a portion of disaster costs toward mitigation, as the Federal Emergency Management Agency stresses greater intergovernmental coordination. The Disaster Recovery Reform Act proposed by U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, a Republican from Pennsylvania, would shift 6 percent of annual disaster grants into a National Public Infrastructure Pre-Disaster Mitigation Fund for resilience projects.
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Homeland Security News Wire
The Department of Justice released a report produced by the Attorney General’s Cyber-Digital Task Force. The report provides a comprehensive assessment of the cyber-enabled threats confronting the United States and details the ways in which the DOJ combats those threats.
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Houston Chronicle
A top Federal Emergency Management Agency official testified that his agency has updated plans and procedures to prepare for the 2018 hurricane season after assessments, some of them internal, of failures during last year’s string of epic natural disasters.
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IAEM
The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has enhanced its Fellows Program and is now accepting applications from state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) partners. The Fellows Program provides a unique opportunity for SLTT partners to collaborate with DHS, the Intelligence Community (IC), and the federal interagency to ensure that SLTT perspectives are integrated into the threat information shared by federal partners. Several opportunities are available, and applicants may apply for more than one opportunity, in which case applicants should indicate their preference. Download program overview and application, and send any questions to SLTTPartnerEngagement@hq.dhs.gov.
IAEM
In recognition of the men and women who have dedicated their careers and lives to make citizens and communities safer from both natural disasters and terrorist events, the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) presents the annual Lacy E. Suiter Distinguished Service in Emergency Management Award. The award is named posthumously in honor of Lacy E. Suiter, one of the nation's most experienced and respected emergency management and homeland security leaders. The NEMA Board of Directors, past presidents and former award recipients are responsible for reviewing nominations and making award determinations. The group is interested in the specific activities and accomplishments of nominees rather than their general background. Self-nominations will not be accepted. Nominations should include a one-page summary of those accomplishments or activities you believe merit consideration for an award. Email your completed nomination form and one-page summary of nominee accomplishments by July 31, 2018, to tsheets@csg.org.
Nextgov
The Homeland Security Department would have broad authority to bar technology contractors that officials believe pose cybersecurity and national security risks under legislation forwarded by the House Homeland Security Committee.
The bill, which would only apply to Homeland Security contracts, would generally require the department to notify contractors before a ban and allow them to protest the ban or make efforts to mitigate the problem.
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Business Insider via San Antonio Express-News
It's been nearly a year since Hurricane Harvey brought 130 mph winds and rain that fell up to four inches per hour on Texas' Gulf Coast.
While climate change didn't cause Harvey, scientists say a warmer planet likely made the storm worse. Plus, higher sea levels — due to climate change and human disruptions (like oil drilling) have changed the ocean and land levels — encouraged destructive flooding as the stormwater rose.
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IAEM
The IAEM Editorial Work Group seeks article submissions for the October 2018 conference issue of the IAEM Bulletin. Articles should be related in some way to the overall conference theme of “Opportunities & Innovations in Emergency Management.” Visit the Bulletin web page for details, and be sure to read the author guidelines. Articles should be 750-1,500 words, emailed as a Word attachment to Karen Thompson, editor, at Thompson@iaem.com, no later than Sept. 10, 2018.
Homeland Security News Wire
DHS has warned utilities that Russian government hackers accessed the U.S. electric grid control systems in 2016 and 2017, and could have, at the time of their choosing, caused blackouts across the United States. “They got to the point where they could have thrown switches” and disrupted power flows, said Jonathan Homer, chief of industrial-control-system analysis for DHS.
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VOA
There have been many improvements in how weather experts predict the path of hurricanes, powerful storms that form in the ocean.
However, forecasters still struggle when trying to estimate one quality of a coming storm: its intensity.
Intensity measurements would help people prepare for flooding and deadly winds, like those of Hurricane Maria last year.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Landslides are the third-largest contributor to earthquake deaths, after building collapse and tsunamis. From 2004 to 2010, earthquake-induced landslides caused an estimated 47,000 deaths. Researchers have developed a model which can help experts address such risks by estimating the likelihood of landslides that will be caused by earthquakes anywhere in the world.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Whether a catastrophe is natural or man-made, emergency managers need to respond quickly with the optimal solution. Making decisions on the fly can be difficult, which is why significant planning must go into a disaster response strategy. Many conversations need to happen, and they need to cover a range of possible scenarios.
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IAEM
Did you miss the Certification Webinar Series that consists of four introductory webinars that help candidates navigate the IAEM certification process? All webinars were recorded and are available on the IAEM website for on-demand viewing.
IAEM
As a follow-up to its popular Combating Ransomware series, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is hosting another series of unclassified, virtual awareness briefings – this time on Russian government cyber activity against critical infrastructure. Join experts from the DHS Stakeholder Engagement and Cyber Infrastructure Resilience (SECIR) division and the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) to learn about recent cyber incidents, as well as mitigation techniques to protect critical assets. Briefings will be offered from 1:00-2:30 p.m. EDT on the following dates: Monday, July 30, and Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. Content is the same for each session. View the event flyer.
BBC News
Survivors of the wildfires that have killed at least 74 people in Greece have described how they were forced into the sea by a blaze that "struck like a flamethrower".
"The flames were chasing us all the way to the water," said one victim.
Meanwhile, the bodies of 26 adults and children who apparently died hugging each other were found close to the sea.
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The Weather Channel
Numerous tropical downpours since the weekend have caused flash flooding in parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, where water rescues were reported and a disaster emergency was declared in at least one Pennsylvania town. Parts of the interior mid-Atlantic have been swamped with over 10 inches of rain, according to NOAA's Weather Prediction Center, prompting numerous water rescues and some evacuations.
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Telesur
Six people have been reported dead and thousands of others displaced in the Philippines following heavy rains resulting from three tropical cyclones effected by the monsoon season. Two children, aged three and six, were among the casualties Sunday after a landslide buried their house in the town of Barbaza, which is located about 400 kilometers south of Manila, police said.
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USA Today
Filipinos take shelter inside a gymnasium turned into a temporary evacuation center in Marikina city, east of Manila, Philippines on July 22, 2018. According to news reports scores of towns and cities in the Philippines are under a state of emergency due to severe caused by the southwest monsoon enhanced by Tropical Storm Josie.
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CTV News
Some residents of the Okanagan region in British Columbia woke up Sunday to a sight they hadn’t seen in days: a smoke-free sky.
“This is the best I’ve seen it in the last couple days,” Peachland Mayor Cindy Fortin told CTV News Channel.
Several wildfires have been burning in the area since a lightning storm hit early last week.
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South China Morning Post
Twelve people died of heatstroke in the week ending July 15 after three perished in the preceding week, according to latest data.
More than 9,900 people were rushed to hospital during the week to mid-July, jumping from 2,700 in the previous week, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.
The scorching weather shows no signs of easing.
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