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Register now at www.iaem.com/webinars and tune in today at 1:00 p.m. for IAEM’s Thursday Learning Webinar on “Mapping the Social Media of Disaster Survivors.” Learn how the landscape of social media conversations shifts throughout the course of a disaster. When do disaster survivors experience the greatest points of frustration, anger, joy, or sadness? While every disaster is unique, FEMA’s Office of External Affairs identified general patterns in online behavior over the course of many disaster responses and created a Survivor Experience Map. Some of the largest corporations in the world create user experience maps to better understand pain points in their customer service process. FEMA combined this concept with their social media listening efforts to better understand the hurdles survivors face throughout the preparation and recovery process. Now, the agency not only responds better in the moment, but also can better anticipate survivor information needs. In this presentation, Sara Smith, social listening specialist, FEMA, will review the Survivor Experience Map and demonstrate how a robust social listening program has helped this federal agency better understand and serve disaster survivors.
IAEM
The last special focus issue of 2017 will be based on the theme of the IAEM 2017 Annual Conference & EMEX, “Navigating a Journey with the Whole Community.” Articles should be related in some way to the conference theme. You could pick one of the following four conference focus areas: The Emergency Management Journey: What have you learned, and where do you want to go next; Sweeping the Depths for Treasure and Scanning the Horizon: The cutting edge of research and practice; All Hands on Deck: Collaborative practices; and Uncharted Waters: How do we steer through the unknown, the new normal. Alternately, you may have another idea about how to address the general conference theme. The Editorial Work Group looks forward to your article submissions. Please read the author’s guidelines, and email your article to Karen Thompson, editor, no later than Sept. 10, 2017.
The Freeman
The disaster risk reduction and management has been institutionalized through its integration into the school curriculum.
The Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education in Central Visayas have incorporated disaster risk reduction and management in their curricula.
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DNA India
India is battling a scourge of flood. The aggravating flood situation in Gujarat and Rajasthan has led to 100 deaths in the two states. Meanwhile, pockets of Jharkhand, Odisha and Bihar are also reeling under flood-like conditions. In Assam, the situation seems to be improving, but this recovery is 77 lives too late.
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India Times
Fifty schools in Delhi are getting disaster-ready. An NGO is training students and teachers of schools in the eastern part of the city to prepare and remain safe in case of a disaster.
Nonprofit organization, The Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society launched Honeywell Safe Schools — a holistic school safety and disaster risk reduction program.
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Protect those that are responding to your disaster.
Discover why the CDC recommends the BioSeal System body sealing technologies to contain human remains that result from traumatic incidents.
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Edmonton Journal
Thirty years ago, Edmonton Councilor Ed Gibbons was pacing up and down his Clareview driveway, waiting and hoping his children would arrive home safely.
When he heard about a tornado ripping through eastern Edmonton and Strathcona County on the afternoon of July 31, 1987, he called his wife, who scurried from work to scoop up their three kids at summer camp in Gold Bar Park on the city’s eastern edge.
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The Hamilton Spectator
A report on lessons learned from the Fort McMurray wildfire recommends improved prevention measures along with better disaster management and evacuation planning.
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo commissioned the KPMG review following the fire in May 2016 that forced about 88,000 people to flee the area in northeastern Alberta.
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The Associated Press via CBS News
More than 20,000 concertgoers were forced to evacuate a music festival in Barcelona over the weekend after flames engulfed the event's stage.
The fire on Saturday night consumed the large outdoor stage at the Tomorrowland electronic music festival held at Barcelona's Parc de Can Zam. Twelve firefighting units needed around an hour to extinguish the flames just before midnight.
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The Independent
There have been over 500 earthquakes in Iceland in the last four days, leading experts to believe that a volcanic eruption could be imminent.
A series of 40 small earthquakes occurred just North East of Mount Fagradalsfjall two days ago, with the final one felt in Reykjavik, measuring at almost 4 on the Richter scale.
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• The Evacu B can provide one nurse with the capability of
evacuating six babies and glide down a flight of stairs with no
bouncing
• The Evacu B can travel down the hall using its wheels
• The newborns are placed in pockets made of fire-retardant
and mildew-resistant material. Their heads are then secured in
adjustable hypoallergenic headrests.
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IAEM
Expo Proteção (occupational health and safety) and its parallel event, Expo Emergência (rescue, firefighting, and emergencies), will bring together more than 300 exhibitors and about 50,000 professionals during three days in São Paulo. The expo, scheduled for Aug. 16-18, 2017, will be accompanied by technical events of professional management and technical training, through congresses, seminars, meetings, workshops, and courses, in addition to technical lectures offered by exhibitors. In its 7th year, Expo Proteção is consolidated as an indispensable space for business, the exchange of experiences, and professional training. In addition to its recognized tradition as a technical event, the expo will provide access to the 1st 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), making this a unique occasion. Download event brochure.
Stuff.co.nz
They may not wear capes but for the graduates of the Youth Emergency Services program, the course has given them the chance to discover their inner hero.
Graduates from the Youth in Emergency Services program have been celebrating after graduating last month.
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ReliefWeb
ENSO forecast from global centers indicate a 50 percent chance of El Niño conditions developing during the second half of 2017. There are chances for the current persisting neutral condition to continue or weak to moderate El Niño like conditions might be possible. Historical data suggests that El Niño events which has onset from July to October are relatively weaker though other possibilities are not entirely ruled out at this stage.
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IAEM
IAEM-USA Individual, Affiliate, and Lifetime members are invited to vote for IAEM-USA second vice president and treasurer in an online election beginning tomorrow, 9:00 a.m. Eastern time, Aug. 4, 2017, and ending on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, 5:00 p.m. EDT. If you are an IAEM-USA member, you will receive an email from IAEM Headquarters tomorrow with a link to the election web page, where you can read or download candidate statements, learn how to vote online, learn about voter eligibility, and access the ballot. The online ballot is part of the IAEM membership database, so only qualified members can vote in the election. Your vote will remain confidential. If you need assistance with online voting or have any questions about the election, please email Karen Thompson, IAEM elections staff liaison, at Thompson@iaem.com.
IAEM
Today at 12:00 p.m. EDT, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) invites you to log in to 90-minute webinar on applying for Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grants. The webinar includes an overview of the results of the FY 2016 mitigation grant cycle, focusing on common issues and best practices across all project types, with an in-depth overview of the innovative Drought and Flood Mitigation Projects, such as green infrastructure, aquifer storage and recovery, flood diversion and storage, and floodplain and stream restoration. To participate, access the webinar online. For audio, call 1-800-320-4330, and enter conference code 787118 for today’s session. (Note: FEMA will open the FY 2017 HMA application period on Aug. 14, 2017. Eligible applicants must apply for funding through the Mitigation eGrants system on the FEMA Grants Portal. All HMA applications must be submitted no later than Nov. 14, 2017, 3:00 p.m. EST.)
IAEM
The EMS 2050 Project Team is incorporating an overview of the 1996 EMS Agenda for the Future and an assessment of industry performance to date as part of its process in creating the 2050 EMS Agenda. Your help is requested to make sure the assessment is as accurate and reflective of reality as possible, knowing there could be a wide spectrum of perceptions. Please download the first draft of the assessment, add your comments using Track Changes, and submit your feedback, name, and contact information by Nov. 1, 2017, to EMSAgenda2050@redhorsecorp.com, with a copy to John Walsh, IAEM liaison to the EMS 2050 Project Team.
IAEM
The IAEM Scholarship Program is offering a scholarship for part-time graduate students also involved in emergency management or disaster management through employment or volunteer activities. The goal of the program is to assist hard-working deserving students who are working on an advance degree in emergency management, disaster management, or closely related program of study. The application and instructions are available on the IAEM website. Completed applications and all supporting documentation must be submitted via email to shiley@iaem.com by 11:59 p.m. EDT on Aug. 31, 2017.
Nextgov
The Homeland Security Department is working with social media giants Twitter and Facebook to combat violent extremism online.
On Tuesday the department's Acting Secretary Elaine Duke attended the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism in San Francisco, along with representatives from Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft and YouTube. The United Kingdom's homeland security head Amber Rudd also joined.
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The Washington Post
On Saturday, it was just an ordinary tropical storm in the western tropical Pacific Ocean. But in a day’s time, the storm named Noru exploded — becoming a super typhoon and the planet’s most intense storm of the year so far.
In a mere 18 hours, Noru’s peak winds increased by 90 mph, the Weather Channel reported.
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Domestic Preparedness
The scientific textbook depiction of the flu virus is about to get a facelift, due to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine team’s discovery that a model of the influenza genome architecture untouched since the 1970s isn’t so perfect after all.
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IAEM
All EMI and EMAP training courses are only $25/day for IAEM members attending the IAEM Annual Conference at the full or basic registration rates, including students. If you are not a member, join today and save on conference training and registration fees. The IAEM Annual Conference will be held in Long Beach, California, Nov. 10-15, 2017. View our program for complete details.
Domestic Preparedness
The interconnected global environment can increase the number of vulnerabilities as well as the destabilizing effects of both natural and human-caused disasters. As such, when a high-impact, low-probability event occurs, the consequences can be devastating. To prepare for such events, planners must observe trends, predict futures, and create scenarios for better mitigating any potential threat.
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Domestic Preparedness
Nearly 100 federal, state and local public safety and private organizations gathered last week to test tactics and technologies to identify, locate and mitigate illegal jamming of communications systems, such as GPS, radio and wireless systems.
The 2017 First Responder Electronic Jamming Exercise (JamX 17) was hosted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) July 16-22, at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
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Homeland Security News Wire
High-speed winds during a thunderstorm may cause trees around an electric grid to crash into the distribution system feeders causing an outage in that area. Currently, most utility companies diminish such accidents by scheduling regular tree-trimming operations. This effort is costly and is based on a rotational approach to different service areas, which may take months and sometimes years before all trees are trimmed.
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IAEM
The IAEM Certification Commission is accepting applications until 5:00 p.m. EDT on Aug. 7, 2017, to fill a local sector commissioner position. The position begins Jan. 1, 2018. Information is available on the IAEM website.
IAEM
The recording of American Geosciences Institute's (AGI) July 6 webinar on "Planning for Coastal Storm and Erosion Hazards" is now available online. This AGI Critical Issues Webinar focused on efforts to anticipate, mitigate, and respond to coastal storms, erosion, and associated hazards at the federal, state, and local level. The webinar included an introductory talk and three case studies from around the United States, covering U.S. coastal storm and erosion hazards, as well as examples of coastal hazard planning from the Pacific, Gulf, and Atlantic coasts, with a focus on how geoscience informs planning at all levels.
IAEM
The North Carolina Active Assailant/Mass Violence Work Group recently published a White Paper for the Integrated Public Safety Response to the Active Shooter/Active Assailant, as the culmination of a four-year effort with the multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional, multi-discipline group representing more than 50 local, state and federal public safety agencies. A rapid, safe, and successful response to active shooter/active assailant incidents requires planning, training, and preparation. The white paper, based on nationally recognized and best recommendations, includes an emergency management section.
IAEM
IAEM student member and active duty Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Michael Turanitza seeks several additional volunteers to participate in his research study as he works to complete his Ph.D. in emergency management from Capella University. The study is entitled "Perceived Barriers to Disaster Response Technology Adoption and Potential for Improved Operational Effectiveness." The research questions being explored are: 1) Beyond the known financial constraints, what do first responders perceive as being barriers to disaster response technology adoption?; and 2) From the perspective of first responders, in what ways could removing these barriers affect disaster response operation efficiency? Volunteers would participate in a 60-90 minute face-to-face (or video teleconference) interview at a private-public venue. Participation would be kept confidential, and this study would benefit emergency management leadership and educational institutions in the development of course materials. Interested personnel are encouraged to email michael.turanitza@yahoo.com and put “Research Participant” in the subject line.
The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra blasted volcanic ash as high as 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles) on Wednesday, one of its biggest eruptions in the past several months of high activity.
Isya Nurrahmat Dana, an official at a volcano monitoring post in North Sumatra province, said at least 19 eruptions followed by lava flows were recorded by midday Wednesday.
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HuffPost
Wildfires have destroyed more than 300 buildings across British Columbia as smoke creates visibility problems for crews expecting to fight more fires in the coming days, officials say.
The lost structures include 71 homes, 116 outbuildings such as sheds and barns, and three commercial buildings, said Robert Turner with Emergency Management BC. Another 115 destroyed buildings have yet to be identified.
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The Guardian
Authorities race to identify bodies as rescue workers reach new areas and fear monsoon death toll will rise further. Severe monsoon flooding has killed 213 people in western India with officials fearing the death toll would rise as receding waters revealed additional victims.
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Khmer Times
The recent floods that slammed Preah Vihear and Oddar Meanchey provinces, among others, destroyed more than 2,000 homes, killed two people and caused at least $1 million in damages, officials said on Friday.
Water Resources Ministry and National Committee for Disaster Management officials said also that Cambodia can expect a short dry spell until Aug. 9.
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The Associated Press via The Washington Post
Taiwan’s first typhoon of the year left 111 people injured and coastal towns flooded as the island braced for a second tropical storm Sunday.
Howling winds toppled motor scooters and hit people with flying glass, the Central Emergency Operations Center said. In Yilan county on the northeast coast, one person was blown down, another was struck by a wind-driven object and a third was injured when a utility truck flipped.
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