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IAEM
The IAEM Scholarship Program 2019 Summer Auction is now open. The auction will close at 10:00 p.m. EDT, Sept. 3, 2019. Your bids will help us further 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 keep your bids updated. 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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Join Paul Anderson, director, Omaha/Douglas County Emergency Management Agency, Nebraska, on Nov. 20, 2019, at the 8:25 a.m. plenary session, “Stranded in Freezing Waters – If Only We Would Have.” On Mar. 9, 2019, intense and prolonged severe rains fell on frozen lakes, rivers and ice-covered ground. Rivers quickly flooded, dams and levees broke free and severe weather challenged all rescue operations, leaving access by car, truck, boat and aircraft virtually impossible for two-and-a-half days. The agricultural economy was devastated due to cropland damage and death of livestock. Paul will provide a frank and transparent discussion of why and how a new planning approach to dealing with severe incidents needs to be implemented. For more information about the conference and to register, visit iaemconference.info.
IAEM
The IAEM Annual Conference & EMEX is known to be the place to build your network and make new emergency management friendships. An overwhelming 98% of attendees believe attending the conference provides numerous networking opportunities to expand your professional network. View the conference program and register today for the IAEM 67th Annual Conference & EMEX in Savannah, Georgia, Nov. 15-20, 2019. Don’t miss this opportunity.
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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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Insurance News Net
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
Hurricane conditions are possible in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. On Sunday, the Heritage Emergency National Task Force (HENTF) sent hurricane preparedness tips to colleagues in both territories, encouraging them to reach out to constituents before the storm. Once the storm passes, HENTF requests help ascertaining the extent and severity of damage to cultural and historic resources by forwarding reports of damage to hentf@si.edu.
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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 tomorrow (Friday), Aug. 30, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. EDT. Members are encouraged to read candidate statements before voting. Links to each election’s candidate statements 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 and the Ad Council kick off National Preparedness Month with new public service announcements from FEMA’s Ready Campaign that promote the importance of preparing children and teenagers for possible emergencies and disasters. Involving young people in preparedness efforts can help youth, families and communities be prepared and able to respond when faced with disasters. The campaign products this year, with the tagline “Prepared, Not Scared,” encourage parents, teachers, and caregivers to visit Ready.gov/kids so they can teach our youth what to do when a crisis occurs, and how to take preparedness actions together. Each week of National Preparedness Month, the Ready Campaign will emphasize a unique aspect of preparedness:
- Sept. 1-7: Save Early for Disaster Costs
- Sept. 8-14: Make a Plan to Prepare for Disasters
- Sept. 15-21: Teach Youth to Prepare for Disasters
- Sept. 22-30: Get Involved in Your Community’s Preparedness
To view and download all of the Ready Campaign’s PSAs, visit the Ad Council website.
CNN-TV
The Trump administration plans to shift at least $155 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief fund to support its policy of returning some migrants to Mexico.
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IAEM
To assist in controlling the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recruiting experienced French-speaking public health professionals (epidemiologists, data managers, risk communicators, behavioral scientists, infection control specialists, and health educators) to deploy to the DRC for 30-90 days. If you are interested or would like more information, contact the CDC via email at eocevent230@cdc.gov. When contacting the CDC, please attach a resume, indicate your organizational affiliation as appropriate, and in the text of the email provide your area of expertise and dates of availability.
NextGov
The Homeland Security Department’s cyber chief recently countered the notion that every civilian agency should be responsible for managing their own digital risks and said federal leaders are considering ways to centralize those operations.
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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 for the conference issue is Sept. 10, 2019, and articles should be 750-1,500 words. Contact Editor Karen Thompson at Thompson@iaem.com with any questions.
GovTech
Evacuation planning is one of the most difficult tasks in emergency management, and on evacuation routes, bottlenecks in recent disasters have resulted in loss of life.
That was the impetus for StreetLight Data to conduct a national (plus Canada) analysis of small towns and their evacuation risks in situations like floods, fire, dam breaks, hurricanes, tornadoes and other emergencies.
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Domestic Preparedness
When there is a need for sheltering animals, there are several options – each comes with advantages and disadvantages. Conditions, agency policies, experiences, resources or timing typically drive the decision as to what type of shelter is used. Regardless of the type of shelter utilized, the primary goal is to provide quality daily care until animals are reunited with their families or rehomed to new families.
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The Guardian
The nightmares kept coming and David Leal knew he was in trouble. A navy veteran with a can-do attitude and a solidly middle-class IT job at a hospital in Santa Rosa, California, he didn’t think of himself as mentally vulnerable. But when the Tubbs fire snatched his house off the face of the earth in the early morning hours of October 2017, it hit him hard.
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GovTech
School safety is never finished, as Henderson County Public Schools Superintendent Bo Caldwell often points out. And this year the school system has several new changes this year to continue to address the topic.
More than 13,500 HCPS students will be in school Monday morning for the start of the 2019-20 school year.
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GovTech
The school shootings from the last few years have prompted action by school districts to do something that might curb or mitigate a potential mass shooting, and one of the “tools in the toolbox,” is school resource officers.
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Homeland Security News Wire
A school in the United States has spent $48 million redesigning its buildings with curved corridors, hiding places and cement barriers in a bid to thwart mass shooters. The project at Fruitport High School in Michigan is aimed at reducing casualties in the event of an attack by hampering the sight lines available to a gunman in corridors.
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NPR
Three people turned themselves in to police Monday to face criminal charges in connection with the deaths of a dozen patients at a South Florida rehabilitation facility days after Hurricane Irma in 2017. A fourth person was arrested by authorities in Miami-Dade County.
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HS Today
Resilience should be driven by outside-the-box thinking and backups that are built into critical infrastructure to ensure that attacks on water, power or financial networks don’t take down the systems, said Brian Harrell, assistant director for infrastructure security at DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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GovTech
Meteorologist Frank Marks, longtime director of the federal Hurricane Research Division, had a genuine bird’s-eye view of the effects of Hurricane Barry on New Orleans as the troublesome storm made landfall last month.
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Domestic Preparedness
It is important for academics and practitioners to collaborate and learn from each other. Academic research can help to address real-world challenges, and practitioners are uniquely positioned to provide meaningful insight to help shape research agendas.
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Princeton University
A 100-year flood is supposed to be just that: A flood that occurs once every 100 years, or a flood that has a 1% chance of happening every year.
But Princeton researchers have developed new maps that predict coastal flooding for every county on the Eastern and Gulf Coasts and find 100-year floods could become annual occurrences in New England; and happen every one to 30 years along the southeast Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico shorelines.
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Route Fifty
In the event of a flash flood, active shooter or major road closure, local governments have a new way to get information about emergency situations to residents.
Facebook announced recently the expansion of a tool that will allow governments to craft local alerts which “greatly amplify” their reach on the social media platform.
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State Scoop
At least nine local governments across Texas have been identified as victims in the widespread ransomware incident that targeted impacted nearly two dozen cities and counties across the state. Meanwhile, the apparently coordinated attack continues to attract the attention of cybersecurity professionals — including a top federal official — as a clear sign that ransomware is maturing.
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Route Fifty
When a fire breaks out inside a large structure like a mall or office building, firefighters are often at the mercy of blueprints or hand-drawn sketches to figure out the safest way to navigate the smoke-filled corridors.
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IAEM
The IAEM Certification Program is offering the following exam/prep courses for certification candidates. Visit the IAEM website for registration details.
- Sept. 16, 2019 (Exam Only) – Stevenson, Washington (Registration deadline is Aug. 30)
- Sept. 17, 2019 (Exam Only) – New Haven, Connecticut
- Nov. 17, 2019 (Prep. Course & Exam) – Savannah, Georgia
A minimum of 10 registrants are required for each offering. Contact Certification Administrator Chelsea Firth with any questions.
IAEM
The abstract submission period for the 2020 Preparedness Summit, Mar. 31-Apr. 3, 2020, in Dallas, Texas, is now open. A whole and fully functioning national security system is only as strong as its weakest component. That’s why this year's theme, Fixing Our Fault Lines: Addressing Systemic Vulnerabilities, will focus on methods to identify systemic weaknesses and highlight tools and policies that can empower all communities, and particularly the ones that are most vulnerable, to address those weaknesses and become more resilient. Abstracts must be submitted by Sept. 17. Read more information on the submission process on the conference website.
The Nation
The relentless sequence of natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific over the past two years was beyond what the region had previously experienced or was able to predict — this is a sign of things to come in the new climate reality, according to the latest report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
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New Indian Express
The Karnataka High Court said state government’s Disaster Management Plan was itself “disastrous” after it learnt that the government had held only one meeting in the past 11 years since the Disaster Management Authority came into existence.
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Speaker Politics
Released before the sixth session of the Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangkok, The United Nations Economic and Social Council for the Asia Pacific's report titled ‘Asia-Pacific related Disaster Report 2019’ stated that negative impacts of natural disasters have worsened in the region.
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Today Online
Technological innovations — from unique digital identies for drought-hit farmers to use of data from drones and social media — can better predict increasingly complex disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and limit their impact on vulnerable people, the United Nations said in a report.
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The Source
The site provides updates on various recovery funds available to the territory to include total dollars obligated, allocated and expended. The website features information on the (Federal Emergency Management Agency) funded Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation Programs, the Housing and Urban Development CDBG-DR Program, the Federal Highway-Emergency Relief Program and other federal programs.
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Miami Herald
When Cyclone Idai roared through central Mozambique in March, it made some 200,000 people homeless and destroyed about 2 million acres of crops.
"The winds blew, the rains poured and the river flooded," said farmer Fernando Amis. "It happened very quickly. Before we knew it the water was up to our necks."
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Euro News
Flash flooding caused by heavy hail storms swept through Madrid transforming roads into rivers and bringing the city to a standstill.
In the town of Arganda del Rey, near the capital, eyewitness footage captured cars and rubbish bins being swept away by the rushing flood waters.
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The Guardian
As fires continue to rage in Brazil, nearly a million hectares (6,200 sq miles) of farmland and unique dry forest have been destroyed by weeks of blazes across the border in Bolivia, where the flames have now reached the country’s Amazon region.
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The Star
Typhoon Bailu made landfall in East China’s Fujian province, local authorities said.
With a maximum wind force of 90kph, Bailu, the 11th typhoon this year, made landfall in Dongshan County.
Fujian province said recently that 9,926 fishing vessels had been recalled to harbour as it braced itself for the coming Typhoon Bailu.
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