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This week, FEMA along with its emergency management partners, released Chief Brian Fennessy’s PrepTalk “Building a Mission-Driven Culture.” He shares the values of a mission-driven culture and the importance of intent-based leadership in emergency management. In addition, Chief Fennessy discusses his path to leadership and why he firmly believes that a mission-driven culture is critical to organizational success in times of chaos and during daily operations. Fennessy is fire chief of the Orange County Fire Authority in California. He also serves as the representative for the nine Western Division FEMA Urban Search & Rescue Task Force Sponsoring Agency Chiefs, the vice-chair of the California Fire Chiefs Association Metro Chiefs, and vice-chair of the FIRESCOPE Board of Directors. His PrepTalk video and additional resources are available on the FEMA website. Additional PrepTalks from the April 2019 symposium in Santa Rosa, California, will be released in the coming months. PrepTalks are a partnership between FEMA, IAEM, NEMA, the National Homeland Security Consortium, and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
IAEM
Come early to the IAEM 67th Annual Conference & EMEX in Savannah, Georgia, and network with other attendees in two exclusive tours on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. Get behind the scenes while you tour the Georgia Ports Authority, or choose to be spooked while you hear the history of all the haunted buildings in Savannah. For more information and to register for the conference, visit our website.
IAEM
Sponsorship opportunities are available for the upcoming IAEM Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia, Nov. 15-20, 2019. There are opportunities for all budgets. Contact Sponsorship Manager Kate McClimans to discuss further.
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Daily Commercial News
The Ontario government has announced that former Manitoba deputy minister of infrastructure and transportation Doug McNeil has been named Ontario’s special advisor on flooding.
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Australian Journal of Emergency Management
Douglas Shire Council has completed its strategic plan as part of the Resilient Coast Program designed to mitigate the impacts of coastal hazards on communities.
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Australian Journal of Emergency Management
In October 2018, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation in Melbourne launched its Hot Spots initiative, led by not-for-profit and community health organizations, to test the resourcing of local-level, cross-sector collaborations focused on addressing heatwave vulnerability.
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Australian Journal of Emergency Management
Examination of the levels of Indigenous employment in southern Australia reveals that most agencies do not adequately record the proportion of staff who are Indigenous. Recent initiatives to improve Indigenous staffing levels need to provide consistent and detailed data on employment.
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Australian Journal of Emergency Management
In 2018, the Western Australian Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) released a primary school education program to improve bushfire resilience. The North West Bushfire Patrol is geographically and culturally appropriate for the north-west regions of Western Australia.
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Radio Ink
The nationwide test to radio and TV stations will take place Wednesday, August 7 at 2:20 p.m. EDT. The one-minute test message, conducted through FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, will originate from designated radio stations known as Primary Entry Point stations.
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IAEM
FEMA released the latest National Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA), which is the process to identify catastrophic threats and hazards, and associated consequences and the capabilities the nation needs to address those hazards. FEMA designed the THIRA methodology to support collaboration between state and local governments, federal agencies, and other emergency management entities. The new National THIRA relies on this same methodology to provide a holistic depiction of the nation's readiness on all hazards, at all levels of government. This common assessment will allow FEMA and other federal agencies to track progress over time and provide concrete answers in specific, measurable terms to the question: “How prepared is the nation?” The 2019 National Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA): Overview and Methodology is available on the FEMA website.
The Hill
Tens of thousands of water bottles meant for the people of Puerto Rico after a pair of hurricanes hit the island in 2017 are sitting unopened on farmland near the city of San Juan nearly two years after the disasters.
Photographs of the water bottles emerged this week after international news agency AFP captured aerial images of the bottles on what appeared to be a private estate 25 miles west of San Juan.
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Homeland Seurity Today
A new risk model from Karen Clark & Company (KCC), which contains over 90,000 hurricanes, estimates that a strong Category 5 storm making landfall near Miami would drive re/insured residential losses of more than $200 billion.
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MeriTalk
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), the National Governors Association (NGA), and the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) released new recommendations to help state, local, and tribal governments safeguard against ransomware, and urged governments to take “immediate action” to prevent attacks.
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Emergency Management
The roadmap outlines investment in whole community preparedness and how those investments can help get the nonprofit, faith-based, public and private sectors to collaborate better to develop resilient communities.
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Emergency Management
Acting FEMA administrator Peter Gaynor has a wealth of experience on which to draw and shares his knowledge about the future of emergency management and the nation’s ability to develop resilience.
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IAEM
ASPR’s National Healthcare Preparedness Program and FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) are seeking healthcare coalitions to participate in their jointly developed Health Care Coalition Response Leadership Course to be held at the CDP campus in Anniston, Alabama. The purpose of the course is to provide instruction and practical experience in the best practice procedures for preparing and responding as a healthcare coalition leadership team to community and regional public health and medical emergencies. The application submission deadline for Training Week 51 is close of business on Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. Apply here.
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Smithsonian
The Arctic Circle is in the midst of an "unprecendented" wildfire season on record, with more than 100 blazes raging across the region since the start of June.
As Mark Parrington, senior scientist at the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), tells CNN’s Isabelle Gerretsen, the scale and intensity of these recent wildfires is “unusual and unprecedented.”
Route Fifty
Of all the communities across the United States wrestling with climate change, few face its effects day to day like the strand of coastal islands that make up Dare County.
The county, strung mostly along a chain of narrow barrier islands jutting into the Atlantic Ocean, sits in the path of hurricanes that form in late summer off Africa’s Cape Verde.
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Homeland Security Today
Fire season is here again. Actually, in the Northern Hemisphere – especially California – there are two distinct fire seasons that essentially overlap: a heat-driven summer fire season from June through September and wind-driven ‘Santa Ana’ fires from October through April. In the United States, an average of 100,000 wildfires (also known as wildland fires) burn 4 to 5 million acres each year.
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Australian Journal of Emergency Management
The rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand was an extraordinary story of human endurance that captivated hearts and minds around the world. One year on, the Australian Government is consolidating its preparedness planning using insights from the experience.
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CBS News
More than eight years have passed since a monster earthquake and tsunami struck Northeast Japan and triggered what became, after Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster in history at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
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IAEM
IAEM has published a list of Featured Mentors on the IAEM website for AEM®/CEM® candidates looking for guidance during the application process. Check it out on the IAEM website!
IAEM
The National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) will hold a webinar on “Tracking Disaster Spending – Ohio EMA’s Innovative Approach,” on Aug. 21, 2019, 2:00 p.m. EDT. From Midwest flooding to West Coast wildfires, natural disasters are putting stress on budgets at all levels of government. At this webinar, Laura Adcock from Ohio’s Emergency Management Agency will discuss how her agency worked with Ohio’s budget office to improve tracking of interagency disaster spending by establishing a new statewide policy. In addition, Pew Charitable Trusts will share findings from its research on state spending in an era of more frequent, severe, and expensive disasters. Register online.
Indian Express
The course is likely to include topics ranging from facing man-made disasters such as a nuclear or chemical fire, building fires, rail and road accidents and dealing with pollution.
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Yahoo News
Congress is pushing for the creation of the Department of Disaster Resiliency and Alertness Management (DReAM) for all disaster-resilience related matters.
House Bill No. 2001 or the proposed “Disaster Resiliency and Alertness Management (DReAM) Department Act of 2019” will also include before, during and after disasters.
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Prevention Web
A recording of 38.7°C at Cambridge Botanic Garden on Thursday 25 July has become the highest temperature officially recorded in the U.K.
The provisional value was released on Friday and has been subject to quality control and analysis over the past few days. It has now been validated by the Met Office observations’ team.
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Australian Journal of Emergency Management
In 2011, a catastrophic tsunami ravaged the north-east coast of Japan, causing devastating damage to the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. Len Morris, born and raised in Miyagi Prefecture, writes that we can learn a lot from Japan’s disaster education practices to reduce the risks to people.
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Xinhua
The floods in parts of Bangladesh have left 75 people dead, affected over 6 million people and displaced many families in almost half of the country.
Bangladeshi State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Md Enamur Rahman told journalists here Sunday that some 60,74,415 people were affected due to floods in 28 districts.
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The Economic Times
There was no let up in the flood situation in Bihar where the deluge has affected over 85 lakh people even though the toll remained at 127 for the second consecutive day.
One of the severely affected districts, Darbhanga has so far reported 12 casualties ever since Bihar was hit by flash floods earlier this month owing to torrential rainfall in Terai region of Nepal.
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Manila Bulletin
The death toll in a landslide which buried a village in southwest China rose to 42, state broadcaster CCTV said, with nine still missing days after the disaster struck.
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Reuters
An earthquake and aftershocks struck islands off the north of the Philippines on Saturday killing eight people and injuring 60, disaster officials said.
An initial quake of magnitude 5.4 that struck the Batanes islands was followed shortly by an aftershock of magnitude 5.9, according to Philippine government data. Another big aftershock struck a little later.
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Reuters
Firefighters and Croatian army forces joined a battle against wildfires threatening homes and wind power plants near the coastal Adriatic town of Sibenik, state news agency Hina reported. About 200 firefighters and 50 soldiers were deployed in the area south of Sibenik in the evening as the wind picked up strength and after firefighting aircraft that were deployed during the day had to withdraw for the night.
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Asia Pacigic
An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck near the south coast of Japan's island of Honshu, the European earthquake monitoring service EMSC reported.
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Government Technology
This year is ahead of last year's pace, with 38.21 inches already, far above the normal rate of 24.18 inches. Records for the wettest 12-month period are being set each month, according to the weather service.
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BBC News
A bridge has collapsed as flash flooding hit part of North Yorkshire after almost a month's rain fell in four hours.
The region is braced for more rainfall as the Met Office has issued a yellow warning for rain across much of the north of England.
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