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.IAEM CONFERENCE NEWS
Limited seats remain in pre- and post-conference training at the October IAEM Annual Conference
IAEM
Registrations for pre- and post-conference training are coming in quickly. DHS/FEMA training is offered at no additional cost for registered attendees at the full and student registration rates. Courses that have some availabilities are:
- Ascenttra Advanced Exercise Design Course (2 days)
- AWR-308 - Natural Disaster Awareness for Caregiver (4 hrs.)
- L0102 - Science for Disasters (3 days)
- L0146 - Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program Training Course (2 days)
- L0191 - Emergency Operations Center/Incident Command System Interface (1 day)
- L0318 - Local Mitigation Planning Workshop (2 days)
- MGT-317 - Disaster Management for Public Services (2 days)
- MGT-439 - Pediatric Disaster Response and Emergency Preparedness (2 days)
- MGT-452 - Physical and Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure (1 day)
- MGT-460 - Planning for Disaster Debris Management (1 day)
Learn more about the courses on the conference website. Register by Sept. 10 to take advantage of early bird pricing.
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.IAEM-USA COUNCIL NEWS
FEMA announces new interim policy for Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant Programs
IAEM
On Aug. 27, a new interim FEMA policy began requiring certain structures in Special Flood Hazard Areas to conform to higher flood elevation standards if they use Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant funds. FEMA published the Partial Implementation of the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard for Hazard Mitigation Assistance Programs (FEMA Policy FP-206-21-0003) to better align with Executive Order 14030 Climate-Related Financial Risk, which aims to strengthen resiliency nationwide. This new standard is in the fiscal year 2021 notices of funding opportunity for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) and Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) programs. In addition to BRIC and FMA, it also applies to the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) for any major disaster declared on or after Aug. 27 and assistance authorized for all 59 COVID-19 disaster declarations. In addition, the interim policy applies to HMGP Post Fire for any Fire Mitigation Assistance Grant declarations issued on or after Aug. 27.
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.IAEM NEWS
IAEM seeks articles for next special focus issue of the IAEM Bulletin — Deadline Sept. 15
IAEM
The next special focus issue of the IAEM Bulletin will be on the conference theme, “Looking Back to Look Ahead.” IAEM seeks articles on this topic from the emergency management community by Sept. 15. The issue will be available to the public and featured on the conference app during the October IAEM Annual Conference. Writing article for the IAEM Bulletin may qualify toward requirements for the IAEM Certification Program under the category of professional contributions in the field of emergency management. October article submissions can be sent to Bulletin Editor John Osborne. Be sure to review Author’s Guidelines prior to submitting the article.
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.EM NEWS
Who is Biden's FEMA boss Deanne Criswell?
Texas News Today
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was expected to play an important role in disaster relief as Louisiana and the Gulf prepare for hurricane Aida and land as a Category 4 storm on Sunday.
So who is that head, Dian Chriswell?
Former New York City Emergency Management Agency Commissioner Chriswell was confirmed by the Senate as a FEMA administrator in April and is the first woman to lead the agency.
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For over 36 years, IEM’s team of nationally recognized emergency management, disaster recovery, and crisis response leaders have applied their expertise, experience, and innovative solutions helping communities prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against disasters, public health emergencies, and other hazards. No matter the crisis, #TeamIEM is prepared to take on the challenge. How can we help you create a more resilient future?
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.CLIMATE/WATER/WEATHER UPDATES
Study finds combined threats to water quality after flooding
Coastal Review
Human and swine feces polluted eastern North Carolina waters sampled after Hurricane Florence’s historic flooding of the Coastal Plain. In all, 48 sites in the Neuse, Cape Fear, Lumber and Waccamaw River watersheds were sampled as part of a study investigating microbial contamination in surface waters following the storm, which dumped up to 25-35 inches of rain in some areas of the eastern part of the state after making landfall in mid-September 2018.
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Flood control: Seeking community-driven answers to living with flooding
Homeland Security News Wire
Researchers at West Virginia University have used a localized flooding event to envision how human beings can live with the threat of water invading their living and working spaces. In understanding those tragic lived experiences, Nicolas Zegre and Jamie Shinn have developed a model for solving more far-reaching problems.
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.CYBERSECURITY NEWS
COVID-19: Impact on financial fraud
Domestic Preparedness
The past 16 months have been challenging. COVID-19 left a trail of destruction and a tremendous loss of life. It has had an impact on almost every aspect of daily life. The economy, supply chains, social norms, schools, and places of worship were all affected. The pandemic also led to increased risk of financial fraud and cybercrime. The nation seems to be turning the corner on the pandemic, and people are gradually setting their sights on returning to a new normal way of life.
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CISA releases five Pulse Secure-related MARs
Homeland Security Today
As part of CISA’s ongoing response to Pulse Secure compromises, CISA has analyzed five malware samples related to exploited Pulse Secure devices. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following five malware analysis reports (MARs) for threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs), and review CISA’s Alert, Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities, for more information.
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.EM RESOURCES
New FEMA toolkit helps communities design natural hazard retrofit programs
IAEM
Many communities want to implement programs to help residents protect their buildings and homes from natural disasters, but from inventories to outreach, it’s hard to know where to start. FEMA Region 9 created the Natural Hazard Retrofit Program Toolkit to help local jurisdictions shape retrofit programs tailored to their own community’s needs and hazards. FEMA listened to local practitioners across the United States who have established retrofit programs and incorporated their insights, best practices, and examples in the toolkit. Whether your community wants to create a program for seismic events, hurricanes, flooding, or other risks, the Natural Hazard Retrofit Program Toolkit can help you every step of the way.
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.NEW INSIGHTS
How many 'natural' disasters can one city endure?
National Geographic
Storm-damaged Lake Charles, a Louisiana petrochemical hub, is facing issues that will confront many communities under climate change. How can we adapt, and who is going to pay?
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.DISASTER TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Robots to the rescue: New solutions for campus security
Campus Safety
Robots are increasingly being used in security and surveillance applications. Recent technological developments in a broad range of security-related sensors and in autonomous self-driving technology are driving growth and rapid adoption among leaders in charge of public safety. Using technology to reduce security officer costs and maximize security budgets, such as with access control and cameras, has been the industry trend for years now.
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Promoted by Optimum Seismic Inc.
 “We educate our neighbors so not only are we taking responsibility for our property, but realizing what we do on our property impacts our neighbor’s property, which impacts the neighborhood, which impacts the whole community…” Mountain Rim Fire Safe Council President Laura Dyberg recently told the Orange County Register.
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.IAEM MEMBER NEWS
Book edited by IAEM member, Michael Fagel, CEM, available on Sept. 27
IAEM
The Second Edition of Principles of Emergency Management and Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) will be released on Sept. 27. Among its three editors is IAEM member, Michael Fagel, CEM. The highly anticipated second edition provides an updated understanding of the coordination, operation of EOCs at local, regional, state, and federal operations. Contributions from leading experts provide contemporary knowledge and best practice learned through lived experience. The chapters collectively act as a vital training guide, at both a theoretical and practical level, providing detailed guidance on handling each phase and type of emergency. Readers will emerge with a blueprint of how to create effective training and exercise programs, and thereby develop the skills required for successful emergency management. Along with thoroughly updated and expanded chapters from the first edition, this second edition contains several new chapters. The book can be pre-ordered now.
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.GRANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Deloitte’s Close as You Go (CAYG) is a secure cloud-based software platform built to help agencies manage recovery documentation for procurement and contracting, model policies and procedures, and plan for disaster. Developed alongside specialists in preparedness and response, CAYG helps you prepare, so you can focus on recovery.
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.IAEM-ASIA NEWS
Need for disaster resilient schools in India
The Times of India
According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, disasters are defined as ‘a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society causing widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources’. Human and economic losses from disasters in India are high in comparison to many other developing nations.
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State will focus on better disaster management strategies: Minister
The Hindu
As a developed state, Tamil Nadu will focus on better risk reduction and disaster management strategies, said Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, while visiting the newly built district office for the Fire and Rescue Services Department on the Collectorate premises.
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.AROUND THE WORLD
Ida left more than 1 million without power, possibly for weeks. And now comes the scorching heat
CNN
The levees held. The power grid did not.
Millions of Gulf Coast residents who survived Ida's devastating winds and deluge of rain face a new danger -- widespread power outages that are expected to last for weeks, coupled with a period of excessive heat.
Ida, which made landfall Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane, has already contributed to five deaths, including a drowning in Lafitte, Louisiana.
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One dead and seven missing as Hurricane Nora Hits Mexico's Pacific Coast
Homeland Security Today
Hurricane Nora caused floods and landslides along Mexico’s Pacific coast Sunday, while making landfall and passing just inland of the Mazatlan resort area before veering into the Gulf of California and weakening into a tropical storm.
Communities in the coastal states of Michoacan, Colima and Jalisco experienced heavy rain and rough surf as the storm moved northward hugging the shoreline.
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Bangladesh: At least 22 dead after passenger boat sinks
Independent via Yahoo News
At least 22 people have died after a passenger boat carrying more than 100 people sank following a collision in a large pond in Bangladesh.
The vessel collided with two sand-laden bulkheads in the Brahmanbaria district, around 51 miles east of Dhaka, the Anadolu Agency reported.
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Nine dead, 90,000 affected as heavy rains over past three days trigger floods, landslides
The Kathmandu Post
Flooding and inundation caused by incessant rainfall has claimed nine lives with four people missing in various parts of the country over the past three days, according to the Home Ministry.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said in a statement on Sunday that 42 houses have been destroyed over the past three days while 756 persons have been moved to safety. The authority estimates that around 90,000 people have been affected as floodwaters inundated around 4,500 houses.
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