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.ANNUAL CONFERENCE NEWS
IAEM's EMvision Talks will be featured at IAEM Reimagined: The Virtual IAEM Conference
IAEM
The EMvision Talks are returning by popular demand. EMvision Talks provide a dynamic forum for people to share a personal connection to an idea, experience or passion related to emergency management. Industry leaders will be at the IAEM Reimagined Virtual Conference to present on topics ranging from emergency responses to COVID-19 to other relevant topics. Included in the 2020 EMvision Talks are:
- Heather Beal, CEM: “Superheroes, Legos, and Germs, Oh My!”
- Brittany Castillo: “Women Leading in Emergency Management – It Is Time to Focus on the Field.”
- John Ha: “Your Perception Is Not My Reality.”
- Alexandra Lampson: “The Dreaded Box.”
- Diane Logsdon: “Why IAEM? If You Struggle to Justify Membership…”
- Geoffrey McKeel, CEM: “Saving the Lives of Those Who Save Lives – the Critical Need for Mental Wellness in Emergency Management.”
- Lorraine Schneider, CEM: “Popularizing the Field of Emergency Management: Input vs. Output.”
Be sure to register for the conference by Sept. 30 to receive access to the Early Edition Speaker Series in October, which includes eight exclusive presentations not available to others. Your registration also will include the full live conference and the conference on-demand for sessions you miss or want to see again.
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.IAEM SCHOLARSHIP
Support the IAEM Scholarship Program by donating items for its upcoming fundraising auction
IAEM
The IAEM Scholarship Program is planning a large online auction beginning in October to be held to benefit the IAEM scholarship fund and future emergency managers. Items are needed to make the auctions a success. While all item donations are welcome, the Scholarship Commission currently seeks challenge coins, patches and emergency management/civil defense historical items. Event challenge coins have been very successful in previous auctions, but all challenge coins are desired. To make a donation, email Scholarship Program Director Dawn M. Shiley.
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.IAEM-OCEANIA COUNCIL NEWS
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.IAEM-USA COUNCIL NEWS
FirstNet Authority seeks applications for Board members
IAEM
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is seeking applicants for up to four seats for appointment or reappointment on the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) Board for terms beginning in January 2021. The Board oversees and guides the construction, operation, maintenance, and improvement of the nationwide public safety broadband network (NPSBN). Information is available in the Federal Register Notice.
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What the wildfires tell us about the shortcomings of California's electric grid
Homeland Security News Wire
In addition to the vast destruction they have caused, the wildfires that have engulfed California in recent weeks have laid bare serious concerns about the state’s electric grid. UCLA’s expert Eric Fournier explains why the architecture of California’s grid isn’t well suited for such extreme conditions and what it would take to improve it.
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.IAEM NEWS
Last Reminder: Sept. 30 is final deadline for article submissions for IAEM Bulletin conference issue on 'Visioning the Future of Emergency Management'
IAEM
In October, the IAEM Editorial Committee will publish the 2020 IAEM Bulletin conference issue on the topic of the IAEM Reimagined Virtual Annual Conference & EMEX theme, “Visioning the Future of Emergency Management.” Your article should be related in some way to the overall conference theme, and the length should be 750-1,500 words. Email article submissions in Word format (along with any questions) to IAEM Bulletin Editor Karen Thompson by Sept. 30, 2020. If you are not familiar with the Bulletin, the March issue on “Black Swan Events: Pandemics” is posted at the top of the IAEM Bulletin web page, plus you can read the author guidelines here.
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.EM NEWS
Wildfires' toxic air leaves damage long after the smoke clears
Route Fifty
When researchers arrived in Seeley Lake, Montana in the Northern Rockies three years ago, they could still smell the smoke a day after it cleared from devastating wildfires. Their plan was to chart how long it took for people to recover from living for seven weeks surrounded by relentless smoke.
They still don’t know, because most residents haven’t recovered. In fact, they’ve gotten worse.
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Humans ignite almost every wildfire that threatens homes*
The Conversation
Wildfires are a natural disturbance for the western U.S., but when combined with climate change and housing growth in the wildland-urban interface – zones where development has spread into wild areas – they have become larger and more destructive. To make matters worse, humans are responsible for starting almost all the wildfires in developed areas that threaten U.S. homes.
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Fire watchers fear this is just the beginning of a new normal
TNS via Emergency Management
The Great Burn of 110 years ago saw 1,700 fires across Montana, Idaho and Washington combine into one catastrophe scorching more than 3 million acres. It destroyed whole towns and killed dozens of people.
Last week, Americans saw it happen again.
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'A perfect storm': Why a California wildfire continues to elude firefighters
NBC News
For more than a week, the typically blue sky above the Angeles National Forest was hidden behind a thick veil of gray smoke. Mountains usually visible for miles could barely be seen up close.
Fueled by triple-digit heat and dry brush untouched by flames for more than 60 years, the Bobcat Fire continues to elude firefighters two weeks after it erupted in the San Gabriel Mountains.
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.EM RESOURCES
USA Today issues special edition on homeland security
IAEM
USA Today has released its Homeland Security Special Edition, with an article about FEMA's COVID-19 response. Take some time to peruse this issue and all that it has to offer (especially the special IAEM advertisement on page 29). View the issue online.
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FEMA releases floodplain management guidance
IAEM
FEMA developed guidance that clarifies and refines the requirements that apply to certain agricultural structures and accessory structures located in Special Flood Hazard Areas. This guidance is a reference document for floodplain managers and those involved in regulating, planning, designing and constructing agricultural structures and accessory structures in special flood hazard areas. Additionally, the guidance document establishes a clear, consistent process for ensuring compliance with National Flood Insurance Program design and performance standards for those structures located within the special flood hazard area. The document supports the policy, “Floodplain Management Requirements for Agricultural Structures and Accessory Structures,” that was signed and became effective earlier this year. For additional information, refer to the guidance and policy available on FEMA’s website.
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IAEM Webinar recording posted on leveraging technology to support decision making during pandemic response/recovery
IAEM
The recording of the Sept. 16 IAEM-USA Region 1 Webinar, “FEMA Region 1 Leveraging Technology to Support Decision Making and Monitor Social Activity During Pandemic Response and Recovery,” has been posted online for IAEM members. The FEMA Region 1 Data Analytics Section was initiated in the early days of the COVID response in New England and tasked with developing innovative solutions to support allocation of scarce and vital resources (PPE, ventilators, ICU beds) based on an equitable and data-driven approach. The section integrated FEMA/HHS staff with a team of public health scientists and data analysts from the US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). Their first mission was to develop and utilize a decision-support tool that could provide regional leadership with a clear operating picture based on real-time data, as well as allow decision makers to project into the future and anticipate shortfalls of critical resources before they occurred. In addition to coordinating with Region 1 Planning and GIS teams to distill complex concepts into digestible visual and qualitative outputs, the Data Analytics Section continues to develop a variety of decision-support tools that leverage predictive modeling and data analytics to meet the evolving needs of the COVID response in New England.
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Making highways, tunnels, and bridges more resilient to extreme events
Homeland Security News Wire
The EU-funded RESIST project aims to provide a methodology as well as tools for risk analysis and management for critical highway structures (in the case of bridges and tunnels) that will be applicable to all extreme natural and man-made events, or cyber-attacks to the associated information systems. Its goal is to increase the resilience of seamless transport operation and protect the users and operators of the European transport infrastructure by providing them optimal information.
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.NEW INSIGHTS
Leader 'buy in' is not enough in emergency management
Domestic Preparedness
Too many elected leaders are not taking the leadership role in developing, reviewing, and implementing their emergency management programs. Many plans have been published by jurisdictions, only to be discarded when it is time to put those plans into action.
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.DISASTER TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Predicting coronavirus outbreaks using Google searches for gastrointestinal problems
Route Fifty
During the coronavirus pandemic, searches for certain symptoms might become useful for predicting the next places to experience an increase of cases. New research from a team of gastroenterologists and epidemiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital found that searches for common gastrointestinal symptoms associated with COVID-19 spiked four weeks prior to a rise in cases for most states they examined.
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Public safety drones: Disasters & drones for good
Domestic Preparedness
Drones are having a dramatic impact on public safety and emergency management operations. While some form of public safety drone has been in place for a while, drones did not begin to see wider adoption until 2016 when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) implemented 14 CFR Part 107 (Part 107) commercial flight authorization and later with Certificate of Authorizations (COA).
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.CEM® UPDATE
Applications are being accepted for IAEM Certification Cohort Class — Certification fees waived for those accepted
IAEM
IAEM is offering U.S. local, state/territory or tribal emergency managers the opportunity to apply to have their IAEM CEM® fees waived. Eligible candidates will be selected through a random lottery. To apply, you must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Open to U.S. individuals who have not yet started the CEM® application/exam process nor submitted the application fee.
- Interested candidates must be employed as emergency managers in one of the following jurisdictions to apply: city/county; other local government entity; state/territory; or tribal.
- Individuals must qualify for the CEM® designation (Requirements outlined on the IAEM website).
- Candidate must be committed to complete the application by Apr. 15, 2021, and exam by May 31, 2021.
The application documents can be found on the IAEM website. The deadline to apply is Oct. 16, 2020.
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.AROUND THE WORLD
Three dead after rare Mediterranean storm batters Greece*
Reuters
Three people have died after Cyclone Ianos, a rare storm known as a medicane, battered Greece, flooding streets and homes, Greek authorities said. Ianos uprooted trees and caused power cuts on the Ionian islands and the western Peloponnese.
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'Unfathomable': US death toll from coronavirus hits 200,000*
The Associated Press
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000, by far the highest in the world, hitting the once-unimaginable threshold six weeks before an election that is certain to be a referendum in part on President Donald Trump’s handling of the crisis.
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'Freak events': Karachi floods hint at shifting monsoon*
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Flood-slammed Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, could face worsening urban inundations in coming years, in part as the South Asian monsoon shifts, climate scientists have warned.
The winds that drive Pakistan's annual monsoon, which arrives from the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, appear to be altering as a result of climate change, which could push more rainfall to Karachi - and less to key agricultural regions, they said.
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Hurricane Sally: 600 rescued, 1 believed dead of generator fumes, disaster aid likely 'forthcoming'
Pensacola News Journal
There's no official date on when federal official will declare Hurricane Sally a "major disaster" and release the floodgate of federal funds needed for long-term recovery and restoration efforts in Northwest Florida.
Still, after touring the damage in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, a contingent of state, local and federal officials said the declaration will likely be coming soon.
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