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There are only a few more days to save up to $100 when you register to attend the IAEM 67th Annual Conference & EMEX, in Savannah, Georgia, Nov. 15-20, 2019. The early bird discount rate expires on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. If your travel budget is not approved yet, lock in the discounted rate by registering now and selecting “pay by check.” Find out more about the conference on the conference website.
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The IAEM Scholarship Program 2019 Fall Auction is now open. The auction will close at 10:00 p.m. EDT, Oct. 14, 2019. Your bids will help us further the education of students studying the field of emergency management, disaster management or a related program. Some items open for bid include: 2018 IAEM Annual Conference challenge coin; 2019 Official White House Christmas Ornament; IMF Security Services Division Challenge Coin; Civil Defense era official booklets; jewelry; Hurricane Irma and Harvey pins; and more. Visit the auction website to set up your BiddingForGood account. The next auction will begin in early November and will end during the Annual Conference. If you have items, especially EM collectibles, to donate, please contact IAEM Scholarship Program Director Dawn Shiley.
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PreventionWeb
The first training of the Tsunami Evacuation Maps, Plans and Procedures Programme (TEMPP 1), co-sponsored by the Building Safety and Resilience in the Pacific (BSRP) Project of the Pacific Community (SPC) and UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO), took place on 30 September - 4 October 2019 in Nadi, Fiji.
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On Oct. 1, FEMA announced key changes for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), to begin on Apr. 1, 2020. These changes include updated increases to conform to the premium rate caps established by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (BW-12) and the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (HFIAA). Beginning on Apr. 1, 2020, renewal premiums will increase an average of 11.3 percent. These amounts do not include the HFIAA Surcharge, or the Federal Policy Fee (FPF). Nearly 80 percent of policyholders already pay a full-risk rate and will therefore not experience this rate increase. The Severe Repetitive Loss Premium is increasing to 10 percent for all policies covering properties with that designation. In addition, it was also announced that annual premium increases of 14.9 percent for preferred risk policies and 14.8 percent for newly mapped procedure policies will be effective on Jan. 1, 2021.
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Revisions to the NFIP Flood Insurance Manual, which is updated twice a year, took effect Oct. 1, 2019. FEMA incorporated the NFIP program changes published in April 2019 into this edition. The updated edition of the "Flood Insurance Manual" does not change flood insurance coverage or supersede the terms and conditions of the standard flood insurance policy. The changes in effect include:
- An updated list of Community Rating System eligible communities (Table 3).
- An updated list of resources and contact information for technical assistance.
- Several updates or changes to various Letters of Map Revision.
The bulletin announcing these October changes is available online.
Los Angeles Times
California’s top firefighting authorities want to use chainsaws and flames to thin out forests and mow down brush on at least half a million acres a year from Redding to San Diego.
The plan — which aims to roughly double the current pace of so-called vegetation management within five years — comes at the behest of Gov. Gavin Newsom and is the state’s primary response to the massive blazes that have ravaged communities across the state.
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The fourth edition of the Public Assistance Program and Policy Guide is scheduled for publication in January 2020. FEMA is releasing the updated draft version for a 45-day public comment period. The draft guide and accompanying comments matrix is located on the FEMA website. FEMA will accept public comments submitted through Nov. 18. FEMA requests that all comments be submitted to FEMA-PAPolicy@fema.dhs.gov using the comments matrix. FEMA will host webinars for state, local and tribal partners on the changes to the guide and the process for submitting comments. Information on the webinars is on the FEMA website.
Devex
A realization of disaster risk reduction’s role in saving money and lives is underway. But convincing governments and other donors to invest in DRR remains a hard sell, according to Mami Mizutori, the U.N. secretary-general special representative for DRR.
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Phys.org
While the economic cost of natural disasters has not increased much on average, averages can be deceptive. The costs of major disasters like hurricanes Katrina, Maria and Dorian or the massive tornado swarms in the Midwest have increased to a disproportionately larger extent than those of lesser events, and these major disasters have become far more expensive, according to an international team of researchers.
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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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Health Affairs
After a summer marked by numerous deadly mass shootings across the US — in California, Texas, and Ohio — children returned to schools where active shooter drills from preschool through twelfth grade have become the norm. In fact 97 percent of school districts practice regular lockdown drills.
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Long Beach Post
When Cal State Long Beach police learned of an email threatening someone would “shoot up” the university, they sent out a campuswide alert telling people to take shelter.
The alert said there was a “credible threat” and told everyone to get inside, but it didn’t reveal much else. Nevertheless, many students and professors tried their best to follow the instructions.
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Government Technology
The data, known as Atlas 14, revealed that parts of Austin are seeing as much as three inches more rain in major storm events than the NOAA had calculated with old rainfall data back in 1961.
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NPR
Climate change is driving deadly flash flooding across America. In one Maryland town, back-to-back flooding has forced residents to make huge decisions about how their community will adapt.
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Forbes
Typhoon Hagibis intensified in wind speed by 90 mph in 18 hours. According to Colorado State University expert Phil Klotzbach, that is the most intensification by a tropical cyclone in the western North Pacific over that time period since Typhoon Yates (1996).
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Daytona Beach News-Journal
The National Hurricane Center doesn’t post spaghetti models on its website because its authorities think they confuse some users.
Divining a hurricane’s path is far from simple: it includes regular feedings of 85 billion clues to supercomputers — information on everything from the tiniest raindrop to the rowdiest thunderstorm, gentle sea breezes to tree-toppling gales, the heat of the ocean’s surface to the very underside of space.
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Thomson Reuters Foundation
Six months after Cyclone Idai devastated Mozambique, getting back to normal is painfully slow for the thousands waiting in resettlement camps for reconstruction to get underway.
The challenge is enormous. Some 300,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, over 4,000 classrooms gone, 100 health facilities out of action, and a huge harvest lost. The country has suffered grievously.
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Domestic Preparedness
In today’s emergency response landscape, public health jurisdictions across the US rely on the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) when incidents prove large enough or severe enough to deplete medicines and supplies needed to protect communities. In just 20 years, the SNS – now managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) – has grown to a $7 billion enterprise poised to respond to a variety of public health threats.
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Phys.org
8 briefcase-size satellites flying in a row may be key to improving forecasts of a hurricane's wind speed—detecting whether it will make landfall as a Category 1 or a Category 5. NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System fleet, launched in 2016, was designed to show whether the same GPS signals your phone uses for navigation can be used to measure winds deep within a hurricane or typhoon.
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IAEM
The largest AEM®/CEM® prep course offering of the year is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019, in conjunction with the IAEM Annual Conference, in Savannah, Georgia. The deadline to register is Nov. 1. Registration details may be found on the IAEM website.
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FEMA can now provide Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) assistance to any area that received a Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG). This change is a result of the passage of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act amended Section 2014 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. The total HMGP Post Fire funding amount available for each FMAG declaration in 2019 is $454,432 for states with a standard hazard mitigation plan and $605,909 for states with an enhanced hazard mitigation plan. FEMA recalculates the national average and the amount of funding available at the beginning of every fiscal year when the first FMAG is awarded. During this past fiscal year, seven states received FMAGs for a total of nine declarations totaling $4.3 million. Visit FEMA.gov to review the Wildfire Assistance Funding and Project Summary report and for additional information about the HMPG Post Fire program.
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The IAEM-USA Children & Disaster Caucus is partnering with the Church of the Brethren Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) to host a webinar on “Emergency Childcare Services Post-Disaster,” Oct. 16, 2019, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT. The purpose of the event is to educate local and state managers on the services they provide and how to better prepare for the needs of children post-disaster. CDS has been meeting the needs of children by setting up childcare centers in shelters and disaster assistance centers across the nation since 1980. Specially trained to respond to traumatized children, these volunteers provide a calm, safe and reassuring presence in the midst of the chaos created by tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, wildfires and any natural or human-caused disaster. Speakers will include Dr. Heather L. Beal, chair, IAEM-USA Children & Disaster Caucus, and Lisa Crouch, associate director of children’s disaster services, Church of the Brethren. Register online.
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IAEM
Join IAEM-USA Region 1 for a webinar on “Healthcare System Resilience in the Face of Climate Change,” Oct. 17, 2019, 12:00-1:00 p.m. EDT. The speaker will be Dr. Paul Biddinger, director, Center for Disaster Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Register online.
Nippon
Although Japan only accounts for 0.28% of the world’s land area and just 1.9% of its population, it is the site of 18.5% of earthquakes with a magnitude of 6 or greater and 7.0% of active volcanoes. This was the finding of a 2014 white paper on disaster management.
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New York Times
When Hurricane Irma crushed St. Martin two years ago, the French state vowed swift assistance. Aid has flowed in, but a fight has followed about recovery plans, exposing racial and class tension.
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EcoWatch
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) began shutting off power in Northern California midnight Wednesday in its biggest attempt yet to prevent wildfires, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The outage will impact 800,000 customers in Northern and Central California, and could last through Tuesday of next week.
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Japan Times
The extremely large Typhoon Hagibis is gaining force over the Pacific south of Japan and is forecast to approach the main islands of Kyushu, Shikoku and Honshu during the upcoming three-day weekend, the Meteorological Agency said.
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Weather.com
The official death toll from Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas has risen to 61, as rebuilding efforts and cleanup from an oil spill continue to slowly move ahead.
The Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency added the additional deaths in its most recent report. As has become common practice, the update noted that more deaths are expected to be confirmed as recovery efforts continue.
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