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.IAEM CONFERENCE NEWS
IAEM Annual Conference early bird pricing ends this Friday
IAEM
Save money by registering by Fri. Sept. 10, for the IAEM Annual Conference & EMEX. You don't want to miss out on the discounts that come with early bird pricing. Don’t forget to book your hotel at the same time. The hotel room block at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel is selling fast. The deadline to book at the IAEM rate is Sept. 16 or when the block sells out. There is a limited number of rooms available at the government rate. To book your stay in the IAEM discounted room block rate and the government rate on nights that are not sold out, please contact the hotel directly. As a special bonus, if you register for the conference by Sept. 13 you will gain access to eight additional sessions in the Early Edition Speaker Series starting on Sept. 14. Register now for early bird pricing and the Early Edition Speaker Series. We're excited to see you in Grand Rapids in October.
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.IAEM-USA COUNCIL NEWS
FEMA updates Flood Insurance Manual
IAEM
This month, FEMA released the updated edition of the National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) Flood Insurance Manual, one month before it’s effective date. The manual presents guidance for FEMA’s new rating methodology, known as Risk Rating 2.0 – Equity in Action. The manual updates existing NFIP underwriting policies and processes to enable effective and consistent program implementation of the new rating methodology. Risk Rating 2.0 provides more accurate flood insurance premiums, better communicates flood risk to individuals and promotes action to mitigate against flooding. FEMA will roll out the rates to the new methodology in a two-phase approach. In Phase I, new NFIP policies beginning Oct. 1 will be subject to the new rating methodology and existing policyholders eligible for renewal will be able to take advantage of immediate decreases in their premiums. In Phase II, all remaining policies renewing on or after April 1, 2022, will be subject to the new rating methodology. To complement the NFIP Flood Insurance Manual, FEMA released an Industry Transition Memorandum to explain how transitioning from the legacy rating plan to the new methodology will occur and provides business, data, and information technology guidance for NFIP insurers and vendors on how to accomplish that transition.
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FEMA revamps individual assistance policies to advance equity for disaster survivors
Disaster Recovery Journal
FEMA announced three immediate steps the agency is taking to reduce access barriers experienced by underserved populations to its programs that provide individual assistance to disaster survivors. The agency will now accept additional documentation to verify occupancy and ownership, and enhance access to disaster assistance for underserved communities.
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.EM NEWS
Biden's plea after seeing ida damage: 'This is code red'
Government Technology
President Biden on Tuesday visited a New York City still licking its wounds from Hurricane Ida’s wrath, speaking with locals in hard-hit sections of Queens before issuing an urgent plea for action to combat climate change.
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Texas ice storm inspires community preparedness workshop
Government Technology
The February ice storm this year caught Texans by surprise and left more than 4 million households without power and as many as 13 million people without tap water.
That event spurred Paul Harvey, emergency management coordinator of Lakeway, Texas, to set up public workshops to educate the public on how to prepare in the case of any natural or manmade hazard.
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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
Our future on a hotter planet means more climate disasters happening simultaneously*
NPR
While the Gulf Coast and the Northeast struggle with flooding and power outages, it's easy to forget that wildfires are still raging in the West.
It's a taste of a future when simultaneous disasters grow more common, according to the latest global report on climate science. Hurricanes, wildfires and torrential rain that triggers flooding are all amplified by heat, and the planet is getting hotter. Emergency managers are preparing for that future right now. They're hoping to speed up the pace of disaster response and also move people and critical infrastructure out of harm's way.
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Hurricane Ida: 2 reasons for its record-shattering rainfall in NYC and the Northeast long after the winds weakened*
The Conversation
Record downpours from Hurricane Ida overwhelmed cities across the Northeast on Sept. 1, 2021, hitting some with more than 3 inches of rain an hour. Water poured into subway stations in New York City, and streets flooded up to the rooftops of cars in Philadelphia. The storm had already wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast after hitting Louisiana three days earlier as a Category 4 hurricane.
Ida had weakened well below hurricane strength by the time it reached the Northeast, so how did it still cause so much rain?
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The master’s degree in Homeland Security provides a comprehensive, full field view of both current and emerging threats, as well as a cutting-edge graduate curriculum in homeland security studies that examines relevant national and information security policy and practices in the public and private sectors.
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Hurricane Ida shows the increasing impact of climate change since Katrina
Homeland Security News Wire
While no two disasters are the same, looking at differences between past and present disasters can help us to better understand what is needed to prepare for future disasters. Given the scope of the emerging impacts of Hurricane Ida, we see that while this is not a repeat of a Katrina disaster, questions are being raised about the effect of climate change and the resiliency of lifeline infrastructure like electricity.
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.CYBERSECURITY NEWS
Larrimore, Costello fill key cybersecurity roles at DHS*
Homeland Security Today
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has brought back two department veterans for key senior cybersecurity appointments.
David Larrimore has been named chief technology officer for DHS, a role he previously held at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) between 2016 and 2019. Between federal appointments, Larrimore was lead solution engineer at Salesforce.
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.EM RESOURCES
FEMA releases revised Preliminary Damage Assessment Guide
IAEM
Today, FEMA released the revised Preliminary Damage Assessment Guide (PDA Guide) and its accompanying Preliminary Damage Assessment Pocket Guide (PDA Pocket Guide). The updated PDA Guide adjudicated comments received from a one-year public comment period that closed on June 8, 2021. The revised guide is effective as of October 1, 2021. A Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA) is the mechanism state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal governments use to determine the impact and magnitude of damage following a disaster and the resulting unmet needs to individuals, businesses, the public sector, and communities. The primary objective of the PDA is to collect information, conduct analysis, and provide situation awareness to state, territorial, or tribal government leaders to determine whether the impacts of a disaster warrant a disaster declaration request under the Stafford Act. The PDA guide establishes a framework for how emergency management officials, at every level of government, document and validate details of damage following a disaster. The guide includes a concept of operations, defined roles and responsibilities, recommended methodologies, and the documentation and data required to validate damage.
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 “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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CDC announces Hub for Injury Prevention with thousands of resources in one database
IAEM
CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control studies injuries and violence – from child abuse and neglect and intimate partner violence to suicide and overdose, traumatic brain injury, older adult falls, motor vehicle safety, and more – and research the best ways to prevent them. CDC’s new Hub for Injury Prevention (HIP) is a collection of resources from the Injury Center and partner organizations that can be used to inform programming and help keep communities safe.
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.NEW INSIGHTS
Mitigating hazards with vulnerability in mind
Homeland Security News Wire
From tropical storms to landslides, the form and frequency of natural hazards vary widely. To mitigate natural hazards equitably, an MIT Ph.D. candidate is incorporating social vulnerability into resilience engineering and hazard recovery.
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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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.DISASTER TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Quickly detecting cyanide poisoning after fires can save lives
Homeland Security Today
In the chaos of burning buildings, it is not just the flames that are dangerous and potentially lethal, but also toxic fumes like cyanide that are released when certain materials are incinerated. These fumes, mixed with smoke, are so toxic that even in very low quantities may pose more risk than the fire itself.
Firefighters are generally, but not always, protected by their self-contained breathing apparatus and other equipment. However, unprotected civilians can suffer serious health consequences.
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.GRANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
ASPR announces new Notice of Funding Opportunity to Strengthen the Nation's Healthcare And Public Health Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
IAEM
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has announced a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to establish Partnership(s) for Enhanced Efforts To Strengthen The Nation’s Healthcare And Public Health Preparedness, Response, And Recovery To Disasters And Other Emergencies. This NOFO seeks to fund up to seven new cooperative agreements to enable ASPR’s broad collaboration with public health and health care sectors and emergency management services to ensure local governments, communities, private sector entities, non-governmental organizations, academia, and individuals can optimally coordinate their respective national health security roles and responsibilities to achieve community health resilience and strengthen health care, public health, and emergency management systems in preparation of, response to, and recovery from disasters and other emergencies. Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. EDT, Sept. 22, 2021.
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The online executive program Promoting Racial Equity in the Workplace runs from Sept. 13-17, 2021. Learn effective strategies for increasing diversity, inclusion, and racial equity within your organization while building your network.
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.IAEM-EUROPA NEWS
Ex-Commissioner Stylianides named head of Civil Protection*
Ekathimerini
The Greek government confirmed on Monday that former European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Christos Stylianides, will head the newly formed Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry.
Former Chief of the Air Force Staff, Evangelos Tournas, was appointed deputy minister, government spokesperson Yiannis Oikonomou said opening a press briefing.
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The EU promised 200M vaccine doses. How many has it delivered?*
Devex
The European Union executive says it is confident its member countries will “do their utmost” to hit the goal of sharing 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses with lower-income nations by the year’s end, though so far only around 18 million have been delivered.
A European Commission spokesperson told Devex last week that the 18 million doses delivered by Sept. 1 included 6 million doses sent via the global procurement mechanism COVAX: 4.17 million donated by France, 1 million by Sweden, 756,480 by Spain, and 86,000 by Portugal.
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.AROUND THE WORLD
About 14,000 people displaced when Ida battered one Louisiana parish, official says
CNN
About 14,000 people in one Louisiana parish are without homes after Hurricane Ida damaged or destroyed 75 percent of the structures there, Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson said Monday. The parish remains under a curfew, and power likely won't be restored until around September 29, according to regional energy provider Entergy.
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16 die as floods swamp public hospital in central Mexico
The Associated Press via ABC News
Torrential rains in central Mexico suddenly flooded a hospital early Tuesday, killing 16 patients, possibly due to the loss of oxygen equipment as the power went out, the national Social Security Institute said.
A video posted on the agency's social media feed said about 40 other patients survived as waters rose swiftly in downtown Tula, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of Mexico City, and flooded the public hospital around 6 a.m.
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Typhoon hits eastern Philippines, causing power outages
The Associated Press
A strong typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines on Tuesday, bringing high winds that caused power outages in several provinces.
Typhoon Conson carried sustained winds of 120 kilometers (74 miles) per hour with gusts of up to 150 kph (93 mph), first making landfall at the coastal town of Hernani in Eastern Samar province before hitting nearby Samar province, the state weather service said.
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Three new wild fires ignite in California as Caldor fire slows
The Hill
Three new wildfires ignited in California on Sunday as the state reported progress in containing the Caldor fire.
The Aruba fire, sparked in San Diego County, has burned across the southeast portion of the community of Rainbow, according to Cal Fire.
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