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There are many reasons to visit this year’s location for the IAEM Annual Conference, Savannah, Georgia, so don’t come alone. Bring your spouse or a friend to visit Travel and Leisure magazine’s third best city on the “Best Cities in the United States” list. As an added bonus, while you are in sessions, IAEM offers 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 the complete details and register today. The IAEM 64th Annual Conference & EMEX begins on Oct. 14, 2016.
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Did you know that IAEM expects more than 2,000 attendees at its 64th Annual Conference & EMEX in Savannah, Georgia? Don’t miss this rare opportunity to share your products and services with emergency managers from across the globe. Sign up by Aug. 25, 2016, to ensure that your company listing is included in the printed program guide. Read about the IAEM Annual Conference and register on our website, or contact Jennifer Walsh.
Government Executive
Fifteen years ago this September 11, 19 terrorists, using four jetliners as guided missiles, killed 2,977 people — and enveloped the country in fear. It was the first sustained attack on American soil since the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which was a far-off military base. This massacre hit the center of our government and blasted away part of our most iconic skyline.
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The IAEM-USA Awards & Recognition Committee is seeking nominations for three (3) new USA-only award categories that will recognize the contributions of volunteers who assist emergency managers in the United States. The new award categories are: Emergency Management Volunteer of the Year, Emergency Management Volunteer Organization of the Year, and Emergency Management Uniformed Services Auxiliary Member of the Year. The nominations period began on July 15 and will end on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, 5:00 p.m. EDT. There will be no deadline extensions. No self-nominations are accepted in these award categories. Nominations must be submitted using the official nominations form by email to Karen Thompson. Any additional letters of support must be included with the official nominations form.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended the deadline to Dec. 15, 2016, to submit feedback to the Mitigation Federal Leadership Group (MitFLG) Disaster Resilience Indicators Subcommittee’s Draft Interagency Concept for Community Resilience Indicators and National-Level Progress Measures. Stakeholders can submit comments and feedback to FEMA-CommunityResilience@fema.dhs.gov. In response to broad public interest in identifying key factors of community resilience nationwide, FEMA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and federal partners in the MitFLG Disaster Resilience Indicators Subcommittee released the draft white paper in June 2016. It is intended to start a broad conversation among public- and private-sector stakeholders on ways to best define and track improvements in community resilience capacity across 28 key indicator categories. Learn more details about this initiative through FEMA and NOAA partnership here.
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For the first time on the Atlantic Seaboard, 16 hours of comprehensive training for FEMA’s Public Assistance Program at the IAEM conference.
The training includes 50 Excel spreadsheets and forms to assist in disaster cost recovery.
Register at iaemconference.info
Presented by: Mike Martinet, MS, CEM
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The IAEM-Global Editorial Work Group has extended the deadline to Sept. 1, 2016, for feature articles on “Today’s Emergency Management: Working in a Complex World,” the theme of the IAEM 2016 Annual Conference. Articles might focus on an aspect of one of these areas: complex events or incidents: the lessons we have yet to learn or failed to implement; current research and practice; and successful collaborative practices. Ideas for topics within each of these areas are posted here. Please read the author’s guidelines, and email your 750-1,500 word article to Bulletin Editor Karen Thompson no later than Sept. 1, 2016.
Popular Science
Zip-lining into a volcano sounds like something for adventure tourism, but for these researchers it’s all part of a day’s work. A motley conglomeration of explorers, volcanologists, GE, and the Nicaraguan government have banded together to bring the Masaya volcano in Nicaragua into the 21st century, by installing sensors that can compile huge amounts of data and make it available not only to volcanologists, but also to policy makers and the public.
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National Geographic
Although dozens of powerful hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic Basin during the past decade, the last time a major hurricane with winds exceeding 110 mph struck U.S. shores was when George W. Bush was president during the stormy summer of 2005.
So as we head into the time of year that author Ernest Hemingway referred to as “a more dangerous summer” when powerful hurricanes most often form, there’s an obvious question being asked by meteorologists and coastal dwellers on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Will this be the year that the remarkable hurricane-free streak — the longest since record-keeping started in 1851 — is ended?
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Fast Company
When a terrorist struck Nice, France, on July 14 a new French government app designed to alert people failed. Three hours passed before SAIP, as the app is called, warned people in and around Nice of the danger on the city’s waterfront during Bastille Day festivities.
This aspect of the tragedy highlights an emerging element of disaster preparation and response: the potential for smartphone apps, social media sites, and information technology to assist both emergency responders and the public at large in figuring out what is happening and what to do about it.
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Fast Company
The company's Disaster Response Tool was first activated back in 2012 in response to Hurricane Sandy. This time it has been activated due to the severe flooding in Louisiana over the past few days that have seen at least seven people killed and tens of thousands displaced from their homes, reports Mashable. Airbnb's Disaster Response Tool allows hosts and local residents to list available rooms for free so people affected by disasters can take shelter.
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“Emergency management has moved from a ‘duty as required’ to a profession over the last several years. The CEM® designation tells me that the applicant has the education and experience needed to understand the complexities of emergency management and is likely to be a valuable addition to my organization.” ─ Bijan Karimi, CEM, Assistant Deputy Director, San Francisco Department of Emergency Management. IAEM’s AEM®/CEM® certification program is growing as more emergency managers understand the importance of getting certified and many employers now list the CEM® as a job requirement when posting positions for emergency managers. Start your certification application, and begin your journey toward certification as an Associate Emergency Manager or Certified Emergency Manager. You can find more information on the Getting Started page of the IAEM website, or contact us with any questions about the program.
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The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) will offer a jointly sponsored webinar on “Addressing the Zika Virus Threat to the U.S. Blood Supply by Nucleic Acid Testing,” on Sept. 22, 2016, 1:00-2:00 p.m. EDT. In the last year, the Zika virus has rapidly spread in South and Central America and could be a real threat to transfusion blood and blood components in the United States and its territories. This webinar will discuss the performance characteristics of the nucleic acid test (NAT) for Zika virus RNA, along with an update on NAT blood screening for the Zika virus in the United States under an Investigational New Drug (IND) protocol. The speaker will be Jeffrey M. Linnen, Ph.D., Associate Vice President, Research and Development, Hologic Inc., San Diego, California. Download the event flyer for details, and register online by Sept. 20, 2016.
Emergency Live
Japan will host a long training course on disaster risk management of cultural heritage in three different cities: Kyoto, Kobe and Sasayama from 10th to 26th September 2016.
Indeed, heritage sites located in hot spots of the world are exposed to a high level of risk. Floods, cyclones, typhoons and storm surges can cause them serious damages and the frequency of disasters caused by hydro-meteorological events do not help their conservation.
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FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI) has scheduled a Virtual Tabletop Exercise (VTTX) offering an earthquake scenario, Sept. 20-22, 2016, 12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. EDT. This exercise is designed to help communities specifically look at an earthquake in their community, using historical events and recovery actions. The VTTX involves key personnel discussing simulated scenarios in an informal setting and can be used to assess plans, policies, training, and procedures. Content for each session is the same for all days, and participants should only attend one session. Complete details are available online. Interested participants should email a request to Doug Kahn at douglas.kahn@fema.dhs.gov and copy fema-emi-iemb@fema.dhs.gov, or call 301-447-7645 or 301-447-1381. Deadline for applications is Aug. 26, 2016.
The Associated Press via Firefighter Nation
A wind-whipped wildfire roared through a Northern California town still recovering from a devastating blaze nearly a year ago, destroying more than 100 homes and forcing thousands of people to flee, authorities said.
The fire seemed calm Sunday before gusts kicked up the flames that tore through neighborhoods in Lower Lake, a rural town of roughly 1,300 about 90 miles north of San Francisco, officials said.
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Reuters
Floods caused by monsoon rains have killed at least eight people and disrupted the lives of 400,000 across Myanmar, the government said, a year since the worst floods in decades left thousands homeless and inundated vast tracts of farmland.
Weeks of torrential rains have flooded more than 400,000 acres of paddy fields, exacerbating last year's damage, a senior Agriculture Ministry official said on Monday.
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The Associated Press via Global News
Firefighters in Portugal and Spain still are battling scores of wildfires after a week that has wrought the worst destruction in years on the mountainous Iberian Peninsula.
Authorities in Portugal said more than 1,800 firefighters were tackling over 30 different fires throughout the country on Monday. But they say one of the most stubborn blazes has been brought under control near the central town of Sao Pedro do Sol.
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USA Today
Historic flooding that killed six people and forced more than 20,000 sometimes harrowing rescues continued to sweep across southern Louisiana on Monday as the region braced for ever higher waters.
More than 12,000 people were staying in shelters and 40,000 homes and businesses were without power, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Monday.
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Inquirer News
A rare tornado hit some parts of Manila on Sunday afternoon, tearing off roofs and spinning debris into the air, a radio report said.
No was reported injured in the brief violent windstorm that has scared many residents in Manila, DZMM reported.
A witness said a column of cloud appeared in Intramuros that swiftly traveled toward the Liwasang Bonifacio.
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Reuters
A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck about 330 miles southeast of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, briefly triggering a local tsunami warning.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a warning for areas close to the quake, although there was no Pacific-wide threat of a tsunami, the Hawaii-based center said.
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CBC News
A shallow, magnitude 5.4 earthquake shook southern Peru's picturesque Colca Valley, killing at least four people, including a U.S. tourist, and injuring 52 as it toppled adobe homes, authorities said.
The quake hit at 9:58 p.m. local time Sunday near the town of Chivay, which is north of the city of Arequipa, with an epicenter just 10 kilometers deep, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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