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Enter a random drawing to receive one of the 100 autographed copies of Ted Koppel’s book, Lights Out
, that will be given away at the IAEM 2016 Annual Conference. To be eligible to enter, you must be registered by the early bird registration deadline of Sept. 13, 2016, and attend the conference. You must pick up your book immediately following Ted Koppel’s session on Monday, Oct. 17, at 4:15 p.m. during his book signing, or afterward at the IAEM Bookstore in the Exhibit Hall through 12:00 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19. Finally, to be eligible to enter the drawing, you must submit an emergency management related question to be asked of Mr. Koppel during his plenary session. To enter the drawing for the book giveaway and submit your question, complete this form and email it to Julie Husk by midnight, Sept. 13, 2016. Winners will receive notification by Oct. 1, 2016. Only 100 copies will be given away, so not all entrants will receive a copy. Additional copies will be available for purchase at the IAEM Bookstore. Click here to find out more about the conference program, and register today for $100 off the registration fee.
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IAEM has arranged for discounted rates for a limited number of rooms at area hotels in Savannah, Georgia, for the 64th IAEM Annual Conference & EMEX. The rooms are filling quickly. Many of the options are in charming historic Savannah, with complimentary water shuttle to the convention center. IAEM has arranged for additional ferries on our conference days, with a set schedule to make it convenient for attendees. Make your hotel room reservation today.
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The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) is offering a free one-year TIEMS membership and a 10% reduced registration fee to IAEM members who attend its 2016 annual conference, to be held Sept. 13-15, 2016, San Diego, California. The discount applies to conference materials, catering, and social events, with the exception of the gala dinner. Details are available online.
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The IAEM Think Tank begins a new season with a panel discussion on “Countering Violent Extremism: What Emergency Managers Need to Know,” scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, 1:00-2:30 p.m. EDT. With the acts of violence and terror that have been occurring all over the world, we in the emergency management community must learn about Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). Extremists can come from a variety of areas, from domestic and homegrown terrorists to international terror groups. IAEM has teamed up with The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to discuss countering violent extremism and the role of emergency management. The Think Tank panel, facilitated by Rich Serino, will include Brette Steele, acting deputy director of the CVE Task Force, and other speakers to be named soon. Details and registration are online.
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The IAEM-Global Editorial Work Group has extended the deadline to Sept. 10, 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 are posted here. Please read the author’s guidelines, and email your 750-1,500 word article to Karen Thompson, editor, Thompson@iaem.com no later than Sept. 10, 2016.
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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
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Reuters via Daily Mail
Pakistan will invest $8.5 million to expand a network of glacier monitoring stations tracking the pace of glacial melt in the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalayan mountain ranges, in an effort to strengthen early warning systems and reduce the impact of flooding in the South Asian country.
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The IAEM International Council and the International Quality & Productivity Centre (IQPC) will co-host the Second Annual Emergency Management & Business Continuity Summit, scheduled for Oct. 5-6, 2016, at Dusit Thani, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The event will present attendees with the information they need to meet the new challenges that lie ahead and an opportunity to network with their peers participating at all levels. The summit will feature a panel of experts presenting a variety of topics, including national security, critical infrastructure protection, emergency response, enterprise risk management, fire safety, and civil defense contingency planning. Download a brochure, and find more details and registration at the event website.
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With the GCC region bracing itself to host mega events like the EXPO 2020 and World Cup 2022, it's extremely important that all stakeholders of critical infrastructure i.e. government, energy and utilities sector enhance emergency response resilience and build a comprehensive crisis and risk management system.
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Radio New Zealand
The United Nations children's agency has helped develop books featuring cartoons and local stories to help children in Fiji who were traumatised by Cyclone Winston. Up to 70 Fijians, including designers, artists and poets were consulted to create eight books featuring real stories from children in Fiji.
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IAEM-USA Individual, Affiliate, and Lifetime members are reminded to vote online in the IAEM-USA 2016 officers election, for IAEM-USA Second Vice President and Secretary. Complete details are available online, and the deadline for voting is Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, 5:00 p.m. EDT.
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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, Thompson@iaem.com, with any additional letters of support included with the official nominations form.
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FEMA is updating its Tribal Policy that guides how the agency implements a framework for nation-to-nation relations with federally recognized tribal governments that recognizes tribal sovereignty, self-governance, and our trust responsibility consistent with applicable authorities. This updated policy will supersede the current FEMA Tribal Policy, issued in 2013, which expires on Dec. 30, 2016. This consultation period will facilitate tribal leaders’ or their designees' feedback during the policy update process. FEMA will engage officials through face-to-face meetings, national and regional association conferences, conference calls, and webinars to seek input on questions highlighted in the FEMA Tribal Policy: Key Concepts document. Tribal officials’ suggestions and comments will inform further development and refinement of FEMA’s Tribal Policy. Tribal officials can submit comments on the FEMA Tribal Policy by email until Oct. 28, 2016.
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FEMA announced the winners of the 2016 FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Awards, recognizing the outstanding efforts of individuals, programs and organizations throughout the country working to prepare their communities for emergencies. This year’s award recipients developed innovative practices and programs that contributed to (or just helped make) making communities safer, better prepared and more resilient. The 11 FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Award recipients will be recognized on Sept. 13, 2016, in Washington, D.C. During the recognition ceremony, recipients will share their experiences, success stories, and lessons learned with fellow emergency management leaders. Visit here for more information on this year’s award recipients and to see the honorable mentions.
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The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) on Aug. 23 opened Docket OSHA-201 6-0021 to allow submission of comments on these draft process safety management (PSM) guidance documents: Process Safety Management Explosive and Pyrotechnics Manufacturing Guidelines for Compliance; Process Safety Management Small Business Guidelines for Compliance; and Process Safety Management Storage Facilities Guidelines for Compliance. These guidance documents are products of Executive Order 13650: “Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security (EO).” In Actions to Improve Chemical Facility Safety and Security - A Shared Commitment Report to the President, OSHA committed to "develop guidance for PSM at small businesses and storage facilities," and to "develop guidance for PSM at explosive facilities." At this time, OSHA is interested in soliciting feedback on these draft guidance documents. Any interested party may submit comments through Sept. 23, 2016, through the Federal eRulemaking Portal online.
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FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate appointed five new members and reappointed seven current members to FEMA’s National Advisory Council (NAC). The NAC is an advisory committee established by federal law to ensure effective and ongoing coordination of federal emergency management activities. Members represent the whole community and include representatives from a wide array of backgrounds and communities involved in or affected by the emergency management profession. Additionally, the NAC provides recommendations to the FEMA Administrator on a variety of issues within emergency management. The five new members (all IAEM members) are: Donna Boston, director, Emergency Management Division, Orange County Sheriff's Department (Silverado, California); Gabriele Almon, independent consultant (Monrovia, California); Jeff Stern, state coordinator, Virginia Division of Emergency Management (Richmond, Virginia); Eugene Henry, hazard mitigation manager, Hillsborough County (Tampa, Florida); and Peter Ginaitt, senior environmental affairs, safety compliance officer and emergency manager, Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (Providence, Rhode Island).
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is proposing to amend its regulations addressing floodplain management and protection of wetlands, in order to implement Executive Order 13690, which establishes the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS) to reduce the risk to Federal investments. FEMA is seeking input from all stakeholders regarding the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and supplementary Policy 078-3 “Guidance for Implementing the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard. FEMA believes that fewer flooding-related fatalities, and less flooding-related property damage will occur if FEMA addresses current and future flood risk through improved standards. The FFRMS is a flexible framework to increase resilience against flooding and to help preserve the natural values of floodplains. View documents and background materials, and submit your comments in the Federal eRulemaking Portal at Docket ID FEMA-2015-0006, by Oct. 21, 2016. Questions should be directed to FEMA’s Intergovernmental Affairs Division at 202-646-3444 or FEMA-IGA@fema.dhs.gov.
IAEM
FEMA released updated Federal Interagency Operational Plans (FIOPs) for three of the five mission areas outlined in the National Preparedness Goal: Mitigation, Response and Recovery. In addition to the updated FIOPs, FEMA released the first edition of the Protection FIOP. All FIOPs link together the range of activities conducted by all of the federal departments and agencies involved in national preparedness. They specifically outline the concept of operations for integrating and synchronizing existing national-level federal capabilities to support local, state, tribal, territorial, and federal plans. FEMA is hosting a series of 60-minute informational webinars with interested stakeholders to discuss the updates to the FIOPs. Advanced registration is required due to space limitations and registration is on a first come, first serve basis. For more information on national preparedness efforts, to download the FIOPs, or to register for a webinar, visit the FEMA website.
Campus Safety
A new Gallup poll found that more students fear for their physical safety in schools today than they have at any point since 2001.
Overall, 13 percent of K-12 students in the country were reported to be concerned for their safety in schools.
The poll also measured parental safety concerns and found 28 percent of parents are concerned for their children’s safety in school.
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NPR
As expected, the Zika outbreak in Florida is growing — though how fast is still difficult to say.
State and federal health officials say mosquitoes are spreading Zika in two neighborhoods of Miami, including Miami Beach. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told pregnant women Friday not to go into these neighborhoods — and to consider postponing travel to all parts of Miami-Dade County.
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NPR
The rain fell for days, sometimes 3 inches or more in a single hour, as streets became rivers and rivers ate up entire neighborhoods in southeast Louisiana.
Between Aug. 11 and Aug. 14, more than 20 inches of rain fell in and around East Baton Rouge, one of the hardest-hit parishes. And in some parishes in the region, as much as 2 feet of rain fell in 48 hours.
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Route Fifty
Each real-life disaster situation offers opportunities for various levels of government and other stakeholders to test their level of preparedness and response. This month’s unprecedented flooding in Louisiana, which inundated parts of 20 parishes, damaged at least 60,000 homes, killed 13 people and required the rescuing of more than 20,000 people, is no exception.
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The Wall Street Journal
Even before the devastating flooding began in Louisiana last week, and we learned that July 2016 shattered all global temperature records, mounting data had demonstrated the growing risks climate change poses to the global economy. Whether you are an investor assessing the $2 trillion in bonds that Moody’s found carry elevated near-term climate risk, one of the nearly two million U.S. homeowners facing significant risk from climate-related flooding, or a U.S. taxpayer staring at $360 billion in direct government costs from extreme weather over the past decade — these threats are looming, large and increasing.
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Business Standard
Scientists have developed a way to rebuild homes destroyed by natural disasters within a few months, an advance that may especially benefit low-income residents in disaster-prone areas.
RAPIDO, a pilot program developed with recommendations from Texas A&M University's Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, dramatically reduces the time it takes to rebuild homes destroyed by natural disasters.
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Emergency Management
Federal weather forecasters have developed a new forecasting tool to simulate how water moves throughout the nation’s rivers and streams, one officials describe as the "biggest improvement in flood forecasting the country has ever seen."
The development, announced and launched last week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, comes as Louisiana reels from one of the biggest floods in its history.
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IAEM
Effective Jan. 1, 2017, Canadian CEM® applicants will be required to submit any three- or four-year bachelor program or any post-graduate degree in emergency management or related field from a regionally accredited institution. Currently, Canadian CEM® candidates may substitute experience for a degree to meet the education component of the credential. This equivalency will expire at the end of 2016. Once the new education requirement goes into effect, candidates will no longer have the option of substituting extra years of emergency management work experience in lieu of the education requirement. This will bring Canada CEM® candidates in line with USA, Europa, and Oceania CEM® candidates.
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Are you getting ready to study for the AEM®/CEM® exam? The recommended publications list and the additional references for U.S.-specific exams list have been updated in the AEM/CEM Study Guide. The following resources have been removed from their respective lists:
- IS-619 Research in Training and Education
- IS-208a State Disaster Management
The following resource has been added to the U.S.-specific exams list:
- A Whole Community Approach to Emergency Management: Principles, Themes, and Pathways for Action
FDOC 104-008-1 / December 2011
Get the current list for all exams in the AEM®/CEM® Study Guide.
IAEM
The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS), a partner of IAEM, published two newsletters in July 2016 that are now available online. TIEMS Newsletter Issue No. 27 includes news from TIEMS, as well as other global emergency management and disaster response news. TIEMS Newsletter Special Edition No. 3 is dedicated to presentations from the first Asia Emergency Management Conference and scientific articles with results from the EU project PHAROS.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s Ready Business Program for Inland Flooding has released its new Ready Business Inland Flooding Toolkit, geared toward helping business understand flooding risk and mitigation plans, in order to ensure safety of employees and customers and to maintain business continuity. The toolkit is focused on planning and mitigation by businesses for flood risks, linked to other online resources to help organizational leaders work through a step-by-step planning process.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the International Public Safety Association (IPSA) have scheduled a joint webcast, “Resources and Tools for Emergency Responders,” for Sept. 20, 2016, 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT. The webcast will inform emergency responders about the tools and resources available to them through the Emergency Services Sector (ESS). Encompassing a wide range of emergency response functions, ESS saves lives, protects property and the environment, assists communities impacted by disasters, and aids recovery from emergencies. ESS has many resources available to help manage risks, improve security, and aid the implementation and execution of protective measures programs. Details and registration are online.
IAEM
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has scheduled a three-day course, “Transportation Disaster Response: Mass Fatality Incidents for Medicolegal Professionals,” Oct. 11-31, 2016, NTSB Training Center, Ashburn, Virginia (near Washington, D.C.). The course will examine the core principles of the medicolegal response to transportation disasters, focusing on victim accounting, collection of antemortem and postmortem data, search and recovery operations, morgue operations, and quality assurance procedures. The course is designed for coroners and medical examiners, death investigators, forensic scientists, and other medicolegal professionals directly involved in planning for and responding to mass fatality incidents. Complete details and registration are available online.
USA Today
At least 73 people were reported killed and dozens more were missing or feared dead Wednesday after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake and a series of aftershocks struck several towns in central Italy, toppling scores of buildings, according to Italy’s civil protection agency.
Hardest hit were towns in the regions of Umbria, Lazio and Marche some 80 to 100 miles northeast of Rome.
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AFP via Yahoo News
A strong typhoon dumped heavy rain that caused flooding on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Tuesday after killing one person near Tokyo and injuring dozens.
Typhoon Mindulle, which made landfall near Japan's capital on Monday, flooded rivers, submerged roads and damaged farms in Hokkaido, TV footage showed.
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The Weather Channel
More than 300 people have died in India and hundreds of thousands have been evacuated after monsoon rains flooded several states.
The rains have pushed the Ganges River and its tributaries to their limits, the Associated Press reports, flooding about 20 districts of the states of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
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The Atlantic
More than 26 wildfires are currently burning nearly half a million acres in the United States as recent hot and dry weather has fueled their explosive growth, including one that now threatens to destroy an iconic monument in California.
One of the fires in California, known as the Chimney fire, started 10 days ago, burning between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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Business Standard
At least seven persons were killed and two went missing as typhoon Dianmu hit Vietnam, authorities said on Sunday.
After making landfall in northern Vietnam on Friday, Dianmu weakened into a tropical depression, Xinhua news agency quoted the Natural Disaster Prevention and Control committee as saying.
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AFP via Yahoo News
A strong earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan for a third consecutive day early Sunday though there were no immediate reports of people injured or damage.
The shallow 6.0 magnitude quake hit 105 miles east-northeast of Miyako city, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was followed by a 5.3 aftershock.
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BBC News
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has hit central Myanmar, damaging pagodas in the ancient city of Bagan and killing at least one person.
The quake struck 15.5 miles west of Chauk, at a depth of 52 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Tremors were felt as far away as Thailand, Bangladesh and India, sending fearful residents into the streets.
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