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The IAEM Poster Showcase provides an opportunity to learn from peers as they showcase their research, best practices and innovative projects. More than 40 participants have entered in either the competitive or noncompetitive divisions. Those in the competitive division will be judged to earn recognition at a gold, silver or bronze level. The lineup of participants is available on the conference website. In addition, several IAEM caucuses and committees have created posters to highlight their projects. All participants will be available for questions during a special presentation session on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, from 9:30-10:15 a.m. in the River Concourse of the Savannah Convention Center. Register today for the conference to view this spectacular event.
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Challenge coins, EM patches, and EM memorabilia (especially items and documents from the Civil Defense era) donated by members are a highlight in the IAEM Scholarship Program benefit auctions. The Scholarship Commission is soliciting donations of coins, especially rare event coins, patches, and EM memorabilia that will be auctioned in upcoming online and live auctions. To donate, please send the coin or patch to Dawn Shiley, IAEM Scholarship Program director, 201 Park Washington Ct., Falls Church, VA 22046. Please be sure to include the donor’s name and contact information (including e-mail) and an estimated value for the donated item. A donation receipt will be sent to the donor. Please email Dawn Shiley in advance so that she is aware of the pending donation.
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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 has been extended to Monday, Sept. 23, 2019, and articles should be 750-1,500 words. Contact Editor Karen Thompson at Thompson@iaem.com with any questions.
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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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Homeland Security News Wire
When thinking of earthquakes in the U.S., California often comes to mind. But what if a massive earthquake suddenly struck Middle America? Would first responders and emergency managers have the tools to swiftly secure infrastructure and ensure public safety?
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Emergency Management
Among the lessons learned in Panama City from the storm is the inadequacy of the widely accepted guidance that people need to have water, food and other resources to sustain themselves for three days after a hurricane.
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Homeland Security Today
In 2017, three major hurricanes — Harvey, Irma, and Maria—struck Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico, causing severe damage and deaths. After Hurricane Maria, questions were raised about how deaths related to the hurricane were identified and documented in Puerto Rico.
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Last week, FEMA’s National Integration Center released three documents for national engagement, designed to provide guidance to state, local, tribal and territorial jurisdictions in preparedness, as well as response and recovery activities. The three documents are as follows:
- Planning Considerations: Disaster Housing - This document provides guidance on national housing priorities, types of housing, key considerations, and housing-specific planning recommendations that jurisdictions can apply when developing or improving housing plans.
- Disaster Financial Management Guide - This document is intended to support jurisdictions in establishing and implementing sound disaster financial management practices. The document also presents an overview of common disaster recovery funding programs and resources that may be beneficial to jurisdictions’ recovery efforts.
- NIMS Basic Guidance for Public Information Officers - This is an updated document that includes digital engagement and social media protocols as well as provides operational practices to help PIOs perform their duties within the NIMS Command and Coordination structures.
FEMA will host a series of 60-minute engagement webinars to describe the draft documents and answer participants’ questions about providing feedback. The webinars will be open to the whole community. To review the draft housing and financial management documents, please visit the FEMA website. For the draft PIOs document, go to FEMA website. Information on the webinars is available on both webpages.
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Homeland Security News Wire
In the months following the tornado which hit Marshalltown, Iowa, faculty and students in Iowa State University’s sustainable environments interdisciplinary graduate program examined the housing recovery experience of different groups of Marshalltown residents.
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Homeland Security News Wire
You may think of volcanic eruptions as spectacular but brief explosions. But in reality, these destructive forces wreak havoc before headlines are made and continue long after they fade. As our new research shows, it is the drawn-out nature of volcanic eruptions that can be most fatal – and understanding why is the key to saving lives.
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The Mid-Atlantic Center for Emergency Management & Public Safety combines accredited college expertise and practitioner experience to offer cutting-edge academic, training, and credentialing opportunities. MORE
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Prevention Web
It took Kathlean Wolf a few extra minutes to get ready. She had to put the braces on her feet that allow her to walk. But once ready to go, she was winding through tall grasses of the marshy stormwater swale across from her apartment on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin.
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USA Today
An explosion sparked a fire Monday at a Russian biological research center known for being one of two places in the world that holds live samples of the smallpox virus.
A gas cylinder exploded on the fifth floor of a six story laboratory building at the Russian State Centre for Research on Virology and Biotechnology in the city of Koltsovo, the center said in a statement Monday.
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Homeland Security Today
Recently, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) released the National Mitigation Investment Strategy (NMIS) outlining the framework for a coordinated, federal and national investment strategy for mitigation.
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Future Structure
Microgrid systems would allow key institutions such as hospitals, municipal utilities and certain government agencies to continue to operate in the event of a natural disaster that interrupts electrical transmission.
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Campus Safety
For years now, Campus Safety magazine has been talking about the importance of access control, locks, lockdown and door hardware, and according to CS’ latest survey, schools, colleges and healthcare facilities have heard that message loud and clear.
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CBS News
Flooding from storm surges and heavy rainfall can be one of the most devastating effects of storms — and scientists say climate change is making those storms worse. Often, engineers build barriers like sea walls and levees to protect coastal cities. But now, there's a new, prettier approach: public parks that are also storm-resistant.
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The Oklahoman
Weather scientists know that Earth's changing climate has serious and long-ranging effects, but its link to severe weather is still under intense
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IAEM
This week, FEMA’s Ready Campaign relaunched newly updated Ready.gov/kids, or Ready Kids, webpages. The relaunch is part of week three of National Preparedness Month, which focuses on the importance of including young people in disaster preparedness. Ready Kids is the youth preparedness platform for the Ready Campaign. The updated website is a one-stop shop with interactive search features, tools and resources to help engage kids and young people on emergency and disaster preparedness. It also includes games and activities for kids to teach them about being prepared for disasters. Parents, caregivers and educators are encouraged to go to Ready.gov/kids for tools to create a family communications plan, a checklist to build an emergency preparedness kit, and resources to talk with children and teens about disasters that may occur where you live. The website also has resources to support the integration and implementation of children’s disaster-related needs into preparedness, planning, response and recovery efforts. State, local, territorial and tribal governments and other stakeholders responsible for the temporary care of children can find tools for developing emergency operations plans, trainings, guidance, policies and more on the updated Ready Kids website.
Domestic Preparedness
Guidance for developing an integrated, coordinated, and synchronized emergency operations plan (EOP) is provided in Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101 (CPG 101). Although many emergency managers consider the EOP the foundation of emergency and disaster plans, CPG 101 acknowledges that it is not the only plan that supports emergency management within a jurisdiction.
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CNN
The chances of a global pandemic are growing — and we are all dangerously under prepared, according to a new report published Wednesday.
The panel of international health experts and officials pointed to the 1918 influenza pandemic as an example of a global catastrophe.
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Homeland Security Today
National Preparedness Month got me thinking: How can we increase preparedness within our community? I asked 20 or so of my friends (people in their late 20s to early 30s) about what they had done to prepare for emergencies, and if they had any emergency plans made for their homes; out of those asked, no one did.
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Nextgov
A new tool called “Panacea’s Cloud” could give first responders a way to communicate during a natural or human-made disaster when devices such as cell phones may not work.
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Popular Mechanics
On July 19, 2008, volcanologists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory were stunned to see evidence of an eruption at Okmok Volcano in the remote Aleutian Islands. Usually, there are clues that a volcano may soon erupt: heightened gas emissions, seismicity, and ground deformation.
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EHS Today
For the past 30 years, Joel Vetter, chief of fire rescue services for Suffolk County, New York, has seen an evolution in the types of threats that call for emergency preparedness.
He’s observed schools and the American public at large move from simple procedures such as stop, drop and roll to full-scale drills to prepare for mass shooting situations, or what he considers, “the new norm.”
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UConn Today
In major storms such as Hurricane Dorian, which initially posed grave threats to the southeastern United States before devastating the Bahamas, massive flooding can occur within a matter of hours.
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India Times
It was set up during the British colonial rule in 1767 and is easily among the oldest institutions in the country.
The Survey of India, which has historically been tasked with mapping the country, is reportedly going to be using drones for the first time to achieve its purpose.
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Livemint
Facebook’s Data for Good initiative aims to use the vast amounts of data the social network gets to help in various humanitarian issues. Important amongst these is working on disaster management and relief, and the company has worked with Indian organisations like SEEDS India, Wadhwani AI and more in the same direction.
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IAEM
The largest AEM®/CEM Prep Course and exam offering of the year is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 17 at the IAEM Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia. Visit the IAEM website for registration details
My Clallam County
Longtime emergency management planner for Clallam County, Jamye Wisecup, has died unexpectedly.
Wisecup was doing a presentation to the Sequim Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, when she collapsed during her talk.
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Santa Ynez Valley star
Kelly Hubbard, the emergency manager at the Municipal Water District of Orange County for the past 15 years, has been named director of Santa Barbara County’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM).
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IAEM
Heritage Emergency and Response Training (HEART) 2019 will take place Dec. 9–13, 2019, at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. This year’s HEART program builds upon the D.C. program launched in 2017 and further refined through state and territorial programs in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Maine. HEART 2019 seeks applications from U.S. cultural heritage professionals and first responder/emergency management professionals from all 56 states and territories and tribal governments. The application deadline is Oct. 8, 2019. For complete details about this program and instructions on how to apply, please visit the Cultural Rescue Initiative website. HEART is sponsored by the Heritage Emergency National Task Force (HENTF), a public-private partnership co-sponsored by FEMA and the Smithsonian Institution. This training is made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Bank of America.
Yale Environment 360
For centuries, Indians have rejoiced at the arrival of the monsoon to break summer’s fever. From June to September, rains water the crops, revive rivers and wells, and cool the air.
Increasingly, however, the season’s sweet relief is laced with apprehension.
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Japan Times
New Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Kazuyoshi Akaba has stressed his resolve to beef up Japan’s disaster preparedness following a spate of serious natural events, including earthquakes and typhoons.
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Kyodo News
About 73,000 households were still without power in Chiba Prefecture on Monday, a week after Typhoon Faxai caused widespread blackouts across the region near Tokyo.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. has said electricity could be restored to affected areas in the prefecture by Sept. 27, saying the outage has been prolonged as the damage from the storm was worse than expected.
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EcoWatch
Record rainfall and flooding in southeastern Spain killed six people as of Saturday, The New York Times reported.
More than 3,000 people had to be rescued from the storm that drenched Murcia, Valencia and eastern Andalusia on Spain's Mediterranean coast last week.
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NPR
As people continue to search for loved ones in the rubble across Bahamian islands, the government now says the number of missing is down to 1,300 — a drastic reduction from previous records of 2,500.
"The number of people registered missing with the Bahamas government is going down daily," Carl Smith, a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, or NEMA, explained to reporters, adding that many could be unaccounted for in shelters.
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The Hindu
The flood situation in Rajasthan’s Kota, Jhalawar, Bundi, Baran and Dholpur districts continued to be grim on Monday, following heavy rains in the Hadoti region and in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, as well as discharge of water from overflowing dams. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot conducted an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Ebola outbreaks, such as the current one in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has claimed 2,074 people’s lives, are widely covered in the media. But another virus is ravaging the DRC with minimal publicity. That virus is measles.
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Reuters
Indonesia closed more schools on Monday in parts of the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, as well as providing oxygen at health centres to help treat some of the thousands suffering respiratory infections due to choking smoke from forest fires.
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The Economic Times
Over 5,000 people were evacuated while many others remained stranded on rooftops on Sunday as large areas were flooded in the city due to discharge of 6.93 lakh cusecs of water from Kota barrage, officials said. Schools have been closed and Army, NDRF, SDRF and teams from Kota municipal corporation engaged in rescue operations in areas along the river Chambal.
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The Associated Press via FireRescue1
A fierce propane explosion leveled a recently opened nonprofit center after crews arrived to investigate the smell of gas Monday morning, killing one firefighter and injuring six other people, including fellow firefighters, officials said.
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Reuters via Yahoo News
A large wildfire on the Greek island of Zakynthos fanned by strong winds forced the evacuation of two villages on Sunday.
No fatalities were reported and the winds were not expected to subside before Tuesday.
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