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A new mobile-friendly design for the IAEM Dispatch is being rolled out today with the Oct. 15 issue. Whether you're reading the Dispatch on a desktop monitor or catching a quick read on your cell phone, the e-newsletter will look great across all devices. Besides the brief being mobile-friendly, or responsive by industry terms, you'll notice refreshed article formats that clearly convey information and encourage social sharing. The masthead is larger, and IAEM color and social media destinations can be seen throughout. Advertisers will benefit from the new design, as responsive-friendly ad units provide increased exposure, with ads automatically reformatting based on the devices with which the Dispatch is read. At this time, 30% of Dispatch subscribers read the news brief on a mobile device. Market trends point to that number being as high as 50% by next year and approaching 70% by 2017.
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You can maximize your training at the IAEM 63rd Annual Conference by participating in selected pre-conference courses. There are many courses to choose from starting on Friday, Nov. 13 and ending Sunday, Nov. 15. Space is limited, so register now for one of the following available courses: L0290 Basic Public Information Officer; L0948 Situational Awareness and Common Operating Picture; L0205 Recovery from Disaster, the Local Government Role; L0146 Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program Training Course; L0197 Integrating Access and Functional Needs into Emergency Planning; L0235 Emergency Planning, Maximizing Your Disaster Cost Recovery; 2015 Leadership Symposium: Strategic Leadership and Opportunities; L0387 Joint Information System/Center Planning for Tribal, State, and Local Public Information Officers; Persuade! A course on presenting for emergency managers; and CEM®/AEM® Certification Offerings. Learn more here and register today.
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When you register to attend the IAEM 63rd Annual Conference & EMEX, Nov. 13-18, 2015, Clark County, Nevada, you now have the option to utilize social sharing during registration via Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Take advantage of the chance of letting your friends and colleagues know that you will be attending the IAEM 2015 Annual Conference, and invite them to also attend. Help to get the word out about the valuable training and networking available at IAEM's annual flagship event. This new feature will be available when you register for any future IAEM event.
Voice of America
The Philippines is one of the most vulnerable countries to natural disasters, with a population spread across some 7,100 islands and about a quarter of its people living in poverty. That is why the nation routinely hosts international conferences aimed at addressing ways to mitigate the impact of disasters — wherever they may occur.
Ministers of the 21-member economies at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on energy resiliency are in the central city Cebu discussing ways to ensure power is up and running when disaster strikes.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its partners on Oct. 2 released second edition of the National Preparedness Goal, which describes a vision for preparedness nationwide and identifies the core capabilities necessary to achieve that vision across the five mission areas: prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery. While the goal remains unchanged, the second edition incorporates critical edits identified through real world events, lessons learned, and continuing implementation of the National Preparedness System. The document and related resources are available here.
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National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Kathryn Sullivan on Oct. 9 announced $5.7 million in cooperative research agreements and grants to improve the forecasting of hazardous and extreme weather, including tornadoes, hurricanes, heavy rainfall, floods and snowstorms. The funding, provided by NOAA Research, will support collaborative work between NOAA and 27 academic, government and industry research institutions located in 16 states across the nation for four major programs: (1) Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment in the Southeast U.S. (VORTEX-SE), $1.9 million, a new research program to improve tornado forecasts and warnings in the Southeastern United States, building upon the best practices and knowledge gained from earlier projects in the Great Plains; (2) Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT), $1.4 million, which will bring together world-class researchers and forecasters online and in person to develop, test, and verify improvements to forecast computer models with the goal of moving hurricane research into day-to-day operations; (3) Hydrometeorology Testbed (HMT), $1.2 million, which will focus on quantifying and forecasting rain and snow, improved forecasting of streamflow and flooding, and improved decision-support tools for NOAA forecasters; and (4) Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT), $1.2 million, which will focus on improving ensembles of high-resolution storm forecast models and data assimilation techniques, hail forecasting tools, and estimation of one-hour probabilities of near-term severe weather using real-time environmental data.
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FEMA seeks comments from state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management practitioners on the draft FEMA Damage Assessment Operating Manual. The manual establishes national damage assessment standards developed from historic lessons learned and best-practices already in use by federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial, emergency management agencies. The draft manual and comment matrix is posted in the FEMA library. Comments should be added into the comment matrix and submitted to Mr. Ryan Buras, senior program advisor, Public Assistance, Recovery Directorate, by 11:59 p.m. ET on Nov. 14, 2015. FEMA asks that comments on the manual be sent either by email to PDAmanual@fema.dhs.gov or by mail with a Nov. 14 postmark to Mr. Ryan Buras, Senior Program Advisor, Public Assistance, Recovery Directorate, FEMA, 500 C Street, SW, Mail Stop 3163, Washington, DC 20472.
The Washington Post
On Sept. 26, 2005 when the National Hurricane Center stopped issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Rita, which was then centered near where the Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas borders meet, we were roughly at the mid-point of the deadliest, costliest and most active hurricane season in recorded history. These hurricanes caused an estimated 3,913 deaths and damage estimated at $159.2 billion with five of the season's seven major hurricanes — Dennis, Emily, Katrina, Rita and Wilma responsible for most of the deaths and destruction.
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SciDev.Net
Disasters are a serious challenge everywhere. All communities need resilient and sustainable development, and that cannot be achieved without thinking through Disaster Risk Reduction strategies. But many years of discussion and work on DRR have been side-lined by policy makers since climate change emerged as a global priority.
A great, and possibly unique, opportunity to align these agendas has been lost this year: Landmark summits for disasters, development and climate are all being held separately.
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GOOD
On Oct. 1, New Yorkers with smartphones were jolted by a collective ping, accompanied by a text message from the National Weather Service warning that the high winds of Hurricane Joaquin were imminent. Though Joaquin has since veered off to Bermuda as a tropical storm, high surfs and historic levels of tidal flooding have devastated the Carolinas, with more weather alerts popping up daily.
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Discovery News
Humans may be willing to put daily pleasure ahead of the threat of long-term disaster when selecting where to live, a new international study suggests.
Study co-author Professor Ben Newell, of the University of NSW, said the research examined how people would react to being told of a predicted increase in the risk of natural disasters with climate change.
Professor Newell, from the School of Psychology, said it was surprising how little weight participants in the study gave to disaster threat.
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National Geographic
When we hear that a magnitude 8 earthquake has struck, we know that's worse than a magnitude 4 earthquake. But how much worse? It sounds like it should be twice as strong, but it's not. Actually, a quake of magnitude 8 releases a million times more energy than a magnitude 4 quake. That's because the earthquake scale — called the Moment Magnitude Scale, which replaced the Richter Scale — is logarithmic, rather than arithmetic.
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The IAEM 63rd Annual Conference & EMEX is packed with speakers you will not want to miss. Starting on Monday, Nov. 16, keynotes will feature Marion McFadden, deputy assistant secretary for grant programs, Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD), U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development; Richard Knabb, Ph.D., director, National Hurricane Center; Joseph Nimmich, deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and Robert Salesses, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Homeland Defense Integration and DSCA. In addition, authors Jan McInnis and Taylor Baldwin Kiland will be speaking during general sessions. IAEM has much more to offer in our Spotlight and Breakout Sessions, Nov. 16-18, 2015. Find out more about our program and speakers, and register today.
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New this year, the IAEM digital pass provides access to several live streams and recordings of the keynote and plenary sessions, as well as one recorded session in each spotlight and breakout session block, plus the EMvision Talks session. For conference attendees, the IAEM Digital Pass enhances your experience by providing content following the conference. You will be able to see sessions you might not have seen in person or review sessions that were of particular benefit to you. Register today to receive the IAEM Digital Pass, or register for the annual conference and receive a complimentary digital pass. For complete details, view our Digital Pass page.
ExtremeTech
Many of us have the unfounded notion that Japan is swarming with robots. Okay, well it might not be completely unfounded, but most of them aren't designed to take the lead in an unpredictable disaster situation. For all its expertise with robotics, Japan was unable to deploy robots during the Fukushima meltdown that could have saved lives or even made it possible to stop the meltdown in the first place. Now, Honda is designing a new version of ASIMO that could be useful in a dangerous setting to keep humans out of harm's way.
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Nextgov
Floating hundreds of miles above the floods in South Carolina, NASA satellites have helped coordinate the response to the Earth-based catastrophe.
The space agency mobilized its network of satellites to both confirm the amount of precipitation that fell in South Carolina's recent record-breaking rainfall and then forecast the amount of flooding expected to hit the region.
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As announced previously, the new recertification requirements were implemented in January 2015. Recertification candidates who started an online recertification application prior to Jan. 5, 2015, should note that the application is tied to the old recertification requirements. To take advantage of the new recertification, candidates should add and complete a new recertification application, which will incorporate the new sliding scale of requirements. Recertification candidates should save any information from the old recertification application and delete the old recertification application prior to beginning the new application. The new recertification application will indicate the candidate's recertification year under the added application on the candidate's dashboard. Double-check this is present before continuing to work on your application. For assistance, please contact IAEM.
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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has launched the first major redesign of the Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM) website since it initially went online in 2007. REMM gives health care personnel key information about the diagnosis and treatment of radiation injuries and access to interactive clinical tools and data. The site was developed by two agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health. The redesigned site now includes behavioral health resources and material for additional stakeholders, including first responders, senior health care leaders, veterinarians, and public information officers. While much of the REMM website has been redesigned, some popular features of the previous site have been enhanced and incorporated into the new site. One of the site's most popular features, the REMM multimedia library, is now in a prominent carousel on the new homepage. The previous web page addresses have been retained, allowing users who bookmarked their favorite pages in the original REMM site to access that information in the new site without needing to update their bookmarks.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Mitigation Best Practices Portfolio web page is a great source of information about ideas of interest to emergency managers who are seeking ways to reduce or prevent damage from disasters. The Best Practice Stories section offers real-life examples of mitigation efforts that worked, such as Nontraditional Wildfire Mitigation in Bastrop County, Texas, and Protecting Children from Tornadoes.
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FEMA's Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS) program completed the consolidation of content previously available on LLIS.gov with the Naval Postgraduate School's Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL.org). As part of the consolidation effort, nearly 23,000 documents were transferred to HSDL.org, which will improve the community's access to valuable information. Some of the most recent LLIS products include Hazard and Core Capability Trend Analyses, Grant Case Studies, and Lessons Learned and Innovative Practices. Additionally, you can access information on the LLIS program and find links to these documents on FEMA.gov.
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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) on Oct. 12 released a report featuring discussions from its March 2015 Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events; Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation; and Forum on Microbial Threats. The purpose of the forum was to discuss how to achieve rapid and nimble medical countermeasures for new and emerging threats. Participants also considered potential business models for future public-private partnerships and discussed what level of sustainable funding is needed to meet the demands of emerging threats across the globe. The report, "Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Throughout Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary," is available to read online here.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Oct. 7, 2015, launched its "Stop the Bleed" campaign, with the purpose of providing potential bystanders of emergency situations with the tools and knowledge to stop life-threatening bleeding. For details about how you can get involved in the campaign, refer to the following resources: campaign website, fact sheet, and blog post.
The Wall Street Journal
U.S. poultry companies and regulators are taking unprecedented steps to combat the potential return of an avian-influenza virus that roiled egg and turkey farmers earlier this year and killed more than 48 million birds.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, bracing for a return of the virus during autumn migration season, is hiring hundreds of veterinarians and other temporary workers to help respond to the threat. USDA also is weighing its first use of bird-flu vaccines, and states are ramping up employee training and readying equipment to compost dead chickens.
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The Japan Times
Beneath the surface of a St. Louis-area landfill lurk two things that should never meet: A slow-burning fire and a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste, separated by just 300 meters.
Government officials have quietly adopted an emergency plan in case the smoldering embers ever reach the waste, a potentially "catastrophic event" that could send up a plume of radioactive smoke over a densely populated area near the city's main airport.
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The Free Lance-Star
Few things surprise former FBI profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole. For years, she has pored over violent, rambling manifestos and studied bloody crime scene photos in her quest to understand and prevent mass shootings.
She saw that the shooters, who are nearly always young men, exhibited a level of cruelty that could come only from years of pent-up hatred. So she asked school nurses throughout the country when they first notice the signs of such hatred in students. The answer shocked her.
Kindergarten, the nurses said.
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USC News
Disasters take a unique toll on children, with potential to cause short- and long-term damage to their health and development. In a new clinical report, the American Academy of Pediatrics urges pediatricians to look for common adjustment problems in children following a disaster or crisis and to promote effective coping strategies to ease the impact of the event.
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WDSU-TV
"Resilience" is a term with which Louisianans are familiar — some may say a little too familiar. "That's exactly right," said Pat Forbes, executive director of the Louisiana Office of Community Development. "We talk about it as a double-edged sword very often, because while we've had to suffer through all these disasters, it has also given us a very rich experience in terms of using federal funds."
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PreventionWeb
Eight communities living with the threat of floods, storms, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions were recognized as Champions of Disaster Risk Reduction by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. The head of UNISDR, Margareta Wahlström, said: "Today we mark International Day for Disaster Reduction by highlighting communities around the world that have demonstrated the ability to live with risk through their local, traditional and indigenous knowledge."
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FEMA's Grant Programs Directorate anticipates commencing the application period for the FY15 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG) in November, and will shortly be announcing an opening date for a 30-day application period. In anticipation, FEMA has available program guides that will help prospective applicants begin to evaluate and consider their circumstances in a way that will help prepare the most thorough and competitive applications possible. Get more information.
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IAEM's Think Tank originally scheduled for Oct. 7 on Integrated Public Alert Warning System has been rescheduled for 12:00-1:30 pm Eastern Time, Dec. 15, 2015. IPAWS is the United States solution for effectively communicating emergency alerts and warnings, and is available for use by Local, State, Territorial, Tribal, and Federal public alerting authorities to send emergency messages to the public in the geographic area of their jurisdiction. IPAWS provides authenticated emergency alert and warning messaging from emergency officials to the public through: radio and television via the Emergency Alert System (EAS); cellular phones via Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA); NOAA All Hazards National Weather Radio (NWR) via IPAWS-NOAA gateway; Internet applications and websites via the IPAWS All-Hazards Information Feed; Unique systems (e.g. sirens, digital road signs, text-to-Braille translators, subscription mass notification systems, etc.); and emerging technologies that adhere to the Common Alerting Protocol Standards. Presenters will include: Ben Krakauer and Henry Jackson, New York City Office of Emergency Management; Dean Flener, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency; Paul Lupe, Fairfax County Office of Emergency Management; and Lillian McDonald, ECHO Minnesota/Twin Cities Public Television. See speaker bios, and register online here.
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Western States Seismic Policy Council and Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission are co-sponsoring a webinar on "Communicating Cascadia's Earthquake Risk," Friday, Oct. 16, 2015, 10:00 a.m. Pacific, 1:00 p.m. Eastern. Geoscience research is at the forefront of characterizing the earthquake risks associated with the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest. This webinar will inform listeners of the science and its implications for policy decisions and resiliency efforts. Presenters will provide an overview of what we know about the Cascadia subduction zone and the associated earthquake risk, how this information is used to guide policy decisions, how the science should be communicated, what state and local governments are doing to address the risks, and what more could be done to better protect the Pacific Northwest. Speakers will include: Chris Goldfinger, Oregon State University; Jeff Rubin, Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue; and Tom Brocher, Earthquake Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey. Register online for this free webinar.
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The 8th Annual HAZUS User Conference, hosted by the Georgia HAZUS User Group, is scheduled for Dec. 9-11, 2015, at CDC Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The event will bring together HAZUS users and provide an information-sharing platform for success stories, best practices, lessons learned, recent research, and workshops and discussions on HAZUS topics of interest. This year's theme is "HAZUS and the Emergency Management Life Cycle: From Practice to Policy." Registration is free, but space is limited, so reserve your attendance now. Deadline for registration is Dec. 4, 2015. If you have questions, contact the HAZUS Outreach Team at hazus@arcaspicio.com.
CNN
The death toll from a massive landslide that covered much of a small village in Guatemala has reached 271, the country's public ministry said.
Many more people are still missing from the landslide in El Cambray, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of Guatemala City. Heavy rains caused the side of a towering hill to break loose suddenly and crash down on the village. Since then, residents and rescuers have shoveled and even burrowed with their hands in search of the hundreds of victims the public ministry estimates were inside the dozens of homes that were instantly engulfed by the landslide.
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NPR
Every year in Indonesia, paper, pulp and palm oil companies clear land in rain forests by lighting fires, including slash-and-burn techniques. And every year, the smoke blankets huge areas of Southeast Asia. This year, a prolonged drought may be making the fires even worse, and Indonesia's neighbors are demanding something be done.
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The Wall Street Journal
A wildfire tearing through central Wyoming destroyed buildings and forced hundreds of evacuations.
The fire has burned at least 10 homes and several outbuildings, with many of the structures listed as complete losses.
A second day in a row of dry weather and strong wind Monday caused the fire to spread across more than 15 square miles of grassland near Evansville, just east of Casper.
Nobody was reported hurt but firefighters struggled to contain the flames. Some 100 firefighters and two air tankers were on the scene.
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