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IAEM
Training courses are filling up fast at the IAEM 66th Annual Conference & EMEX in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Secure your space in highly sought after pre/post-conference training courses held on Oct. 19-21 and Oct. 25. Fees for most of the courses are waived for conference attendees at the full conference rate (early bird rate included in the offer). A list of the courses is available on the conference website. Register today to save your seat. To help you with the registration process, IAEM has created a short step-by-step video for your viewing.
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The deadline to lock in early bird savings is Sept. 21, 2018. Learn why so many EM professionals return to this conference annually. Starting on Monday, Oct. 22, IAEM will offer more than 100 breakout and spotlight sessions, numerous keynote and plenary sessions, the popular EMvision Talks, the Poster Showcase and unlimited networking opportunities. Come out early or stay late and maximize your time away from work with one of the many free pre-conference training courses, or just enjoy the beautiful area of Grand Rapids. For more information, view the conference program and register today!
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IAEM has negotiated favorable discount rates at many area attractions in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Registered attendees may register to attend an exclusive Private Tour of Spectrum Health, one of the nation’s top 15 health systems, on Oct. 20, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Attend a Grand Rapids Griffins hockey game on Oct. 20, 7:00 p.m. with discounted tickets. Get your team together or join other IAEM attendees in an Escape Room Adventure and see if you can solve the puzzle. Take a tour of one of the many local attractions, including the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids Public Museum and the John Ball Zoo with discounted entrance as a conference attendee. Plus Show your Badge and receive numerous discounts for dining, shopping and other area attractions.
The Weather Channel
Three hurricanes and the California wildfires created unprecedented demand for federal disaster response in 2017 and left the Federal Emergency Management Agency "overwhelmed by the response needs," according to a government report released Sept. 4.
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Government Executive
One year ago, on August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey struck Texas – the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Wilma in 2005. Harvey dumped record-breaking rain and flooded hundreds of thousands of homes in and around Houston. It caused some US$125 billion in damages, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
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Homeland Security Today
The deadly wildfires that devastated parts of California this summer may be a harbinger of more catastrophes if greenhouse-gas emissions keep rising. That’s one finding of a report released this week assessing the impact of climate change on the Golden State.
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PR Log
The Virginia-based social media savvy disaster response organization Humanity Road is pleased to announce their acceptance as a National Member of National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster. "Accurate and timely information is critical to any disaster response and recovery. We welcome Humanity Road as a National VOAD member," said President and CEO of National VOAD, Gregory Forrester.
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NBC Los Angeles
A replacement bridge under construction at the nation's second-busiest port isn't just a crucial route for cargo trucks and Southern California commuters — it's a concrete-and-steel science experiment for engineers and seismologists. The new bridge, which will stretch 8,800 feet over the Port of Long Beach, is being built with about 75 seismic sensors that will measure the forces imparted on the span when one of several nearby faults set off an earthquake.
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Fire Engineering
California has a problem to the tune of 129 million dead trees, spread across 8.9 million acres. Thats 6,450 times the number of trees in Central Park, truly astronomical, in the words of Heather Williams, a spokesperson for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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IAEM
The IAEM Editorial Work Group seeks article submissions for the October 2018 conference issue of the IAEM Bulletin. Articles should be related in some way to the overall conference theme of “Opportunities & Innovations in Emergency Management.” Visit the Bulletin web page for details, and be sure to read the author guidelines. Articles should be 750-1,500 words, emailed as a Word attachment to Karen Thompson, editor, at Thompson@iaem.com, no later than Sept. 10, 2018. The deadline will not be extended for this issue.
Domestic Preparedness
There is no shortage of crisis management tools and concepts, yet individuals and organizations often still struggle to respond effectively when a crisis occurs. There are likely numerous reasons for this, but one challenge stems from an inability to operationalize the key concepts during a crisis. It can be helpful to establish frameworks that can serve as “mental cues” to organize, guide, and prompt action. This article examines one such framework.
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Forbes
The past few years have brought some devastating wildfires to large parts of the American West. In 1988, 36% of the land in Yellowstone National Park — 793,880 acres — burned in one giant conflagration. A combination of lightning strikes, human-caused fires, and parched conditions created the out-of-control blaze.
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Campus Safety
Campus Safety magazine is pleased to announce that it is now accepting nominations for the Director of the Year program. If you know a school, university or hospital police chief, security director or emergency manager who goes above and beyond the call of duty, demonstrating outstanding leadership skills, ingenuity, selflessness and overall achievement, we encourage you to submit his or her (or your) nomination.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Investments in global health security programs at the federal level directly benefit U.S. national security and the economy by helping to prevent the cross-border spread of infectious disease outbreaks in other countries.
That was the overarching theme of a daylong discussion among more than 70 experts convened by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security on 30 July 2018, in Washington, D.C., to gather stakeholder input on the forthcoming U.S. Global Health Security Strategy.
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Route Fifty
Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers says there’s an upside to the fact that his city has been ground zero for a string of headline-grabbing enormously destructive natural disasters over the last decade. He says that Colorado Springs officials probably don’t have to work as hard as officials in other cities to make the case that building up local resilience should be a top public policy priority.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Damage caused by natural disasters and recovery efforts launched in their aftermaths have increased wealth inequality between races in the United States, according to new research from Rice University and the University of Pittsburgh.
“Damages Done: The Longitudinal Impacts of Natural Hazards on Wealth Inequality in the United States” will appear in an upcoming edition of Social Problems.
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Domestic Preparedness
Stakeholders in each discipline are tasked with protecting their industries’ assets and resources from potential risks and threats. However, each industry is interdependent on numerous other industries and their preparedness practices. The “whole community” concept encompasses the “all for one and one for all” motto. Together, communities can build strength and resilience. Apart, they may miss the warning signs and opportunities to mitigate disaster.
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Route Fifty
The Homeland Security Department is looking to outfit first responders with uniforms that can charge radios, sensors and other electronics they carry on the front lines.
The agency’s science and technology office on Tuesday announced a nearly $200,000 contract with Protect the Force, a Boston-based first responder supply company, to develop textiles that can generate and store their own electricity.
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Government Executive
Social media sites can help with assessing the impact of natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey, but federal authorities overlook much of the critical information those sites convey, according to new research.
The report shows almost half of the Hurricane Harvey damage reports people provided using social media were not captured by Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates.
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Nextgov
Earthquake researchers have been trying to model aftershocks for years. By now, they’re able to fairly accurately predict when aftershocks are going to happen, and how large they’ll be. But they’ve been far from perfect when it comes to pinpointing their location.
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Homeland Security News Wire
In the U.S., 15,498 of the more than 88,000 dams in the country are categorized as having high hazard potential—meaning that if they fail, they could kill people. As of 2015, some 2,000 of these high hazard dams are in need of repair. With a hefty price tag estimated at around $20 billion, those repairs aren’t going to happen overnight.
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Emergency Management
Geospiza is one of a few startups who see a void in alerting and messaging in the emergency management realm and offer a solution in artificial intelligence software.
Sarah Tuneberg started Geospiza a little more than a year ago after years of acting as a consultant in the field of public safety and emergency management.
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IAEM
IAEM encourages individuals seeking certification to register for their exam or prep course at one of the following scheduled events.
- Sept. 22, 2018 — AEM®/CEM® Exam (Miami, Florida)
- Sept. 24, 2018 — AEM®/CEM® Exam (California Emergency Services Association Annual Conference in Indians Wells, California)
- Oct. 21, 2018 — AEM®/CEM® Prep Course and Exam (IAEM Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan)
- Nov. 2, 2018 — AEM®/CEM® Exam (St. Louis, Missouri)
- Nov. 17, 2018 — AEM®/CEM® Exam (IAEM-USA Region 1 Conference in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts)
Register through the IAEM website. A minimum of 10 registrants is required for most offerings.
Houston Chronicle
Katy’s new emergency management coordinator, Gregory Goedecker brings eight years of experience in the emergency management field to his position, including a stint tracking people and resources in the aftermath of the April 20, 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon/BP MC252 drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
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IAEM
IAEM is offering an IAEM Think Tank on the topic of “Smart Cities: How New Technology, Including Nanotechnology, Can Enhance All Phases of Emergency Management.” This event will take place on Sept. 25, 2018, 2:00-3:30 p.m. EDT. Register online here. Smart cities and nanotechnology, now emerging, have the potential to improve community resilience. We are hosting our Think Tank from San Diego, California, one of the leaders in the smart city initiative. Smart City San Diego is a broad public-private collaboration that includes the City of San Diego, San Diego Gas & Electric, General Electric, the University of California, San Diego, and CleanTech San Diego. Joining the discussion is San Diego based startup AerNos, Inc., a nano gas sensor company developing air quality monitoring solutions for smart cities. Deployed on smart street lights and parking meters, AerNos sensors will provide granular, actionable data to cities. The objective of the collaboration is to improve the region's energy independence, to empower consumers to use electric vehicles, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and to encourage economic growth. This webinar will look at the use of nanotechnology in helping to develop smart cities and how it could affect the field of emergency management. Speaker bios are online.
The World Bank
To associate a gun shot with foul play seems logical. But that’s not necessarily the case in Guldara, a district nearly 40 kilometers outside of Kabul City in Afghanistan.
Gun shots typically come from communities living at the top of the mountain to warn vulnerable downhill communities of potential flooding from the Guldara river.
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Prevention Web
A new initiative announced on 1 September 2018 will boost the local disaster preparedness and response capacity of nine national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in Asia Pacific.
People in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Timor-Leste and Viet Nam will benefit from the two-year, 2 million US dollar (1.7 million Euro) programme to improve the capacity, readiness and resilience of local Red Cross and Red Crescent responders.
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IRIN News
The floods came early this year in Tua Sin Chai, a remote village in Vietnam’s northern highlands. In June, heavy rainfall unleashed landslides that tumbled through this hillside village, killing a family of four. Giang Hong Ky lost his son, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren when the tide of earth and rocks cascaded down the hillside.
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Hindustan Times
Floods are becoming a common phenomenon in India. Over the past few decades, areas facing recurring calamities have become relatively better prepared, with an increased understanding of the risks. This does not hold true for areas that have not experienced a major calamity in the recent past. Ignoring all the safety guidelines, dwellings, factories and infrastructure facilities have been constructed in areas that are potentially vulnerable to natural hazards like floods.
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The Art Newspaper
A massive fire engulfed the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro Sunday evening (2 September) shortly after the museum had closed to visitors. The historic building held more than 20 million artefacts, including the oldest human skull ever found in the Americas.
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NPR
A powerful typhoon made landfall in western Japan, causing extensive damage and multiple deaths.
At least 11 people have died as a result of Typhoon Jebi, the most powerful storm to hit the country in a quarter century, according to Japan's Kyodo news service. The Japan Times newspaper puts the number of injured at 110.
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PBS
Tropical Storm Gordon never became a hurricane but it was deadly all the same, killing a child by blowing a tree onto a mobile home as it made landfall. The storm later weakened into a depression on Wednesday, dumping heavy rains across southern states.
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IOL
A landslide triggered by heavy rains in Ethiopia's rural southwest Tuesday killed at least 12 people, state media reported.
Four people were injured in the disaster which occurred in the Isara district of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region.
The "bodies of 10 people have so far been discovered and search for bodies of the remaining two people has continued," state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate reported, citing the district police chief.
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Xinhua Net
People clear up wood pieces in the river after a mudflow at flood-hit Mengdong Township in Malipo County of Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Wenshan, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 4, 2018. Heavy rainstorms that started pounding Mengdong Township on Sunday have triggered a flood and mudslide, which left five people dead and seven others injured.
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Vanguard
Director General of Niger State Emergency Management Agency, NSEMA, Alhaji Ibrahim Inga, has said 14 persons have been certified dead from flooding in different parts of the state this year.
The local government mostly affected by the flooding, according to him, are Edati, Gbako, Munyan, Agaie, Rafi and Bida.
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