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IAEM
Brock Long, the former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from 2017-2019, will share his experiences and why he feels strongly that fundamental change within our profession is necessary in his plenary session on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, at the IAEM 67th Annual Conference & EMEX in Savannah, Georgia. Faced with unprecedented disasters during his tenure at FEMA, Long will discuss why citizen preparedness efforts, training, recovery funding, and current resiliency efforts must be revised now in order to avoid losing the opportunity to make positive change. To find out more about the IAEM Conference and to register, visit the conference website.
IAEM
Savannah, Georgia, the site for this year’s IAEM Annual Conference, is a city that begs to be explored. Bring your spouse and non-EM friend along to visit the city that Travel and Leisure magazine calls the third best city in the United States. As an added bonus, IAEM offers discounted rates for your companion to attend all the events with you. While you are in sessions, IAEM has a Spouse/Friend Program for those accompanying attendees to help them meet other fellow travelers, touch base with past friends, and coordinate plans for exploring the beautiful Savannah area. View complete details and register today for the IAEM 67th Annual Conference & EMEX, Nov. 15-20, 2019.
IAEM
The IAEM Scholarship Program 2019 Summer Auction is now open. The auction will run from Aug. 15-Sept. 3, 2019, with proceeds supporting our mission to nurture, promote and develop disaster preparedness and resistance by furthering the education of students studying the field of emergency management, disaster management or a related program. Some items open for bid include: 2018 IAEM Annual Conference challenge coin; 2019 Official White House Christmas Ornament; BBQ Pitmaster tools and accessories; Civil Defense era official booklets; jewelry; Hurricane Irma and Harvey pins; and more. Visit the auction website to set up your Bidding For Good account and then follow the auction using mobile bidding to receive notifications immediately when you are outbid. The next auction will begin in late September. If you have items, especially EM collectibles, to donate, please contact IAEM Scholarship Program Director Dawn Shiley.
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Everbridge
With severe weather season intensifying, counties and cities across Florida share their perspective on hurricane preparedness and the benefits of leveraging Everbridge as their statewide mass notification platform, including improved situational intelligence, communication, and mutual aid. Watch Now.
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Global News
With August nearly half over, B.C. has spent less than half what it shelled out to fight wildfires in the province, by this point in the summer. The savings come the same year as the province boosted its wildfire fighting budget to $101 million, up from $64 million in the wake of a string of brutal fire seasons.
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Global News
The Saskatchewan and federal governments are jointly putting forward $1-million to better map flood plains for 20 “high risk” communities.
Saskatchewan’s Water Security Agency (WSA) will conduct the mapping through the National Disaster Mitigation Program, with the two branches of government splitting the cost 50-50.
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IT World Canada
Just over a year after announcing an updated federal cybersecurity strategy, Ottawa has revealed how it will be implemented.
Theaction planfor improving the resilience of the federal and critical infrastructure includes $10.3 million over five years for special projects created by provincial, territorial and municipal governments, researchers, commercial companies and not for profits.
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InsuranceNewsNet
Public Safety Canada issued the following news release:
Flooding is Canada's costliest and most frequent natural disaster. Communities are looking for solutions to mitigate the costs and damages caused by flooding to businesses and residences.
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IAEM
The IAEM-USA Council is holding its annual Council officers’ election. Additionally, IAEM-USA Regions 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 9 are holding Regional officers’ elections. Voting began on Aug. 1, 2019, when voting members were sent emails with their individual links to online ballots. Voting will end on Aug. 30, 2019, 5:00 p.m. EDT. Members are encouraged to read candidate statements before voting. Links to each election’s candidate information can be found at the top of the IAEM-USA News page. Questions or requests for assistance regarding voting should be emailed to Karen Thompson, IAEM elections facilitator.
IAEM
FEMA, IAEM and other partnering organizations will be live taping the next series of the very popular PrepTalks on Sept. 19, 2019, in Washington, D.C., and IAEM members are invited to attend and participate in the Q&A sessions. View the invitation on the IAEM website. Several speakers have been announced, including: Dr. Howard Kunreuther, “Our Unconscious Self: Why We Underprepare for Disasters;” Carolyn Kousky, “Closing the Insurance Gap;” Kate Konschnik, “Electric Grid Dependencies & Vulnerabilities;” Jan Peelen, “Designing with Water in Mind;” and more. Attendees may register at no cost. Seating is limited and is filling fast. So, register today online to guarantee your seat at this unique learning experience.
Homeland Security Today
The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) marked a significant milestone today with release of a new Roadmap for the future of FirstNet, the nationwide public safety broadband network.
Unveiled at the APCO International Conference and Expo in Baltimore, the FirstNet Authority Roadmap builds on the organization’s nationwide engagement with public safety to gather feedback on the most important communications capabilities for their missions.
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IAEM
On Aug. 13, FEMA and its federal partners, in close coordination with experts across governmental agencies, academia and non-governmental organizations, released the National Mitigation Investment Strategy (NMIS). The NMIS provides a national, whole-community approach to investments in mitigation activities and risk management across federal, state, local, and tribal and territorial government and the private and non- profit sectors. Recommendations proposed in the NMIS will reduce loss of life and injuries, damage to property, and negative impacts to the economy and the environment, and lead the whole community in building a more resilient future.
Scientific American
The southern half of the United States is far less resilient than the northern half, according to a groundbreaking federal study that analyzed factors such as income inequality and religious affiliation in every county.
But one of the least resilient counties, oddly, is New York County, better known as Manhattan, which suffers because residents eschew personal automobiles.
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Government Technology
A spike in cyberattacks in recent months has left state and local governments reeling. Baltimore faces more than $18 million in losses following a May ransomware attack. Several Florida cities were hit in June. And Los Angeles police data was hacked in late July.
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Homeland Security News Wire
The series of powerful earthquakes that shook Southern California in July prompted understandable concern about whether the region is prepared for a period of possibly more active seismic shifts.
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Gizmodo
We are not ready for the extreme rainfall coming with climate change. A quick dramatic thunderstorm in New York on Wednesday flooded Staten Island so badly that brown murky water joined bus riders for their evening ride home.
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National Geographic
For decades, scientist have searched for clues that would signal an impending earthquake. Teams have analyzed electromagnetic activity, weather patterns, and more only to scratch them off the list as potential harbingers of rocky destruction.
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Government Technology
It's two storms down and a predicted eight to 15 more to go this hurricane season as NOAA forecasters updated their seasonal outlook on Thursday, Aug. 8. They called for a greater chance of above-normal hurricane activity than they did at the start of the season in May.
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IAEM
The last IAEM Bulletin special focus issue of 2019 will be based on the theme of the 67th IAEM Annual Conference & EMEX, to be held Nov. 15-20, 2019, in Savannah, Georgia. The IAEM Editorial Committee seeks articles related to the conference theme, which is “Honor the Past, Treasure the Present, Shape the Future.” Obtain details on the IAEM Bulletin web page for examples of the types of articles sought. The deadline for article submissions is Sept. 10, 2019, and articles should be 750-1,500 words. Contact Editor Karen Thompson at Thompson@iaem.com with any questions.
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Government Technology
Owensboro Public Schools (OPS) has joined three other Kentucky districts and still more around the country that have deployed the CrisisGo app, a platform to help district employees communicate in an emergency.
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Domestic Preparedness
With the myriad of threats that communities prepare for, influenza pandemic is consistently at the top of the priority list. In recent years, strains such as H7N9 and H1N1 have caused concern among health officials. It is no mystery why, considering the 1918 influenza pandemic – which infected over 500 million individuals around the world and caused tens of millions of deaths.
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The Verge
2018 was the fourth-warmest year on record, federal climate experts announced today — just behind 2015, 2016, and 2017. The year also featured $91 billion in direct losses from 14 weather disasters in the United States that cost $1 billion or more, making it the fourth-costliest year on record, too.
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The St Kitts & Nevis Observer
The Community Disaster Risk Reduction Fund of the Caribbean
Development Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation joined
Members of Jamaica’s Social Development Commission (SDC) to conduct community-wide research toassess the relationship between climate change, disasters and how they affect the lives and earnings of residents in 30 Jamaican communities.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Continuity Programs this week released the Business Process Analysis and Business Impact Analysis User Guide. The document is intended for use by whole community stakeholders. It incorporates the concepts found in the FEMA Continuity Guidance Circular and places them in a user’s guide for those individuals that must determine an organization’s essential functions, how those essential functions are conducted and resourced and how to mitigate impacts to the performance of those functions. To view the document and obtain additional information about continuity and continuity planning, please visit the Continuity toolkit. The User Guide can be found in the Continuity Guidance Circular, Chapter 2: Building a Capability.
The New York Times
Major cities are turning to a Silicon Valley start-up to help save lives in an emergency. But some fear its promise has been dangerously exaggerated.
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Government Technology
The gliders' deployment in Hurricane Florence found that subsurface temperatures were about 25 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the ocean modeling predicted without their input. Another glider helped define the Gulf Stream.
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ArsTechnica
Not that they're ones to brag about it, but hurricane forecasters have gotten a lot better at their jobs in recent years, especially when it comes to predicting where tropical cyclones will go.
From the period of 1990 through 2016, the three-day track error for tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico declined from 555km to 185km, dramatically reducing the size of hurricane warning and evacuation zone areas.
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IAEM
Are you working towards your AEM®/CEM® this year? Visit the IAEM website to obtain credential review dates and important information about completing the process in time to receive your diploma at the IAEM Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia. Submit your initial application by August 31, 2019, in order to have it approved during the September credential review meeting; pass the exam and have it processed by IAEM Headquarters by Oct. 21, 2019; and let IAEM Headquarters staff know that you plan to attend the awards banquet at the conference.
Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara officials announced Tuesday the selection of Kelly Hubbard as next director for the county’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) after former director Rob Lewin’s retirement in May. Hubbard comes from Orange County, where she served as emergency manager for the region’s water district for the past 15 years.
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IAEM
The Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) has scheduled a webinar on “Communications and Warning Standard Review” for Aug. 21, 2019, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. EDT. Have you struggled to understand how to approach and navigate through the Communications and Warning Standard Area? Do you know what EMAP is looking for in the planning and testing of your communication, notification, and warning systems? These are questions that the webinar will strive to address. The Communications and Warning Standard Area can be challenging due to its structure and requirements. This is your chance to learn more about the intent and application of the Communications and Warning Standard Area. Register online.
IAEM
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is hosting the 2nd Annual National Cybersecurity Summit, Sept 18-20, 2019, in National Harbor, Maryland. The summit will bring together stakeholders from around the world to a forum with presentations focused on emerging technologies, vulnerability management, incident response, risk mitigation, and other current cybersecurity topics. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from federal, state, and local agencies, private sector organizations, and international partners as they highlight successes and opportunities for collective action. The Summit is intended to be an inclusive event and will be particularly valuable for senior leaders, CISOs, practitioners, and policy experts at public and private sector organizations who have shown a commitment to advancing cybersecurity and infrastructure protection risk management discussions.
There is no cost to attend this event. However, travel, accommodations, meals, beverages, and other incidental expenses are the responsibility of the event participant and will not be covered by CISA. Please register for the Summit no later than Sept. 13, 2019.
IAEM
The International Public Safety Association (IPSA) has scheduled a free webinar on “How to Build Resilience and Reduce Risk with your Emergency Communications Plan,” on Aug. 29, 2019, 1:00 p.m. EDT. Recent disasters, from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico to the Camp Fire in California, have proven that communications are the most critical and central infrastructure for emergency response and recovery. In order to reduce future disaster risk, emergency managers can begin to build community resilience with a better understanding of modern communications infrastructure. In this webinar, you will learn how to turn the lessons of recent disasters into actionable strategies for your emergency communications plan. The instructor will be Cale Teeter-Greg, director of public safety at goTenna, who served as the senior strategic homeland security planner for the Brazos Valley Region in Texas. Register online in advance.
The Times of India
NEW DELHI: Rains continue to lash several states around the country claiming lives, displacing families and damaging property. Just a month after severe flooding in Bihar and Assam, southern and western states are facing torrential rains and widespread floods. A look at the regions affected and why floods create havoc every year.
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Homeland Security Today
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the ASEAN Secretariat have teamed up to launch a three-year disaster risk management plan that aims to strengthen the financial resiliency of ASEAN member states when natural disasters strike.
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Ekathimerini
Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis on Monday pointed to the General Secretariat Civil Protection (GSCV) as responsible for sending messages on possible emergencies, after no alerts were sent to warn on the large blaze which broke out in a suburb of Athens.
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The Guardian
A cloud of smoke and soot bigger than the European Union is billowing across Siberia as wildfires in the Arctic Circle rage into an unprecedented third month.
The normally frozen region, which is a crucial part of the planet’s cooling system, is spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and worsening the manmade climate disruption that created the tinderbox conditions.
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EuroNews
A large wildfire blown by strong winds destroyed areas of forest on the Greek island of Evia on Tuesday morning, and Greek authorities are now preparing to evacuate surrounding villages.
Numerous Greek regions are on high alert, with the General Secretariat for Civil Protection banning all activity in national parks, forests and “vulnerable” areas.
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Hindustan Times
The southwest monsoon’s trail of destruction continued to claim lives across states including West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, with at least 227 reported dead in floods, lightning, and landslides around the country.
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AccuWeather
Dozens of deaths and injuries lay in the wake of Lekima's destruction after the typhoon struck eastern China on Saturday morning.
The intense flooding and threat of landslides prompted over a million people to leave their homes.
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Gulf News Asia
Myanmar troops deployed to flood-hit parts of the country on Sunday to help with relief efforts after rising waters left thousands stranded and the death toll from a landslide jumped to 51.
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China.org.cn
An official from Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority confirmed on Sunday that a total of 161 people have been killed and 137 others injured in rain-related incidents since July across the country due to the current monsoon-triggered heavy rainfalls.
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The Associated Press via WFXT-TV
Spanish authorities say a wildfire on the Canary Island of Gran Canaria has burned 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) and has forced the evacuation of 1,000 residents.
The regional government of the Canary Islands said Sunday that 200 firefighters and 10 water-dumping aircraft are working to combat the blaze that started on Saturday for reasons still unknown.
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Fox News
Nearly two dozen people were injured after a tornado ripped through the southern part of Luxembourg on Friday while another twister swept through Amsterdam as severe storms rocked northern Europe.
Amateur footage obtained by the Associated Press showed the rare tornado in Amsterdam as it ripped through the Dutch capital on Friday night.
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