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IAEM has many opportunities scheduled to increase professional networking while attending the IAEM 67th Annual Conference & EMEX in Savannah, Georgia, Nov. 15-20, 2019. Check out the Special Events page to learn more and see why 98% of conference attendees believe IAEM provides priceless networking opportunities. Register today.
Global News
The B.C. government is considering an overhaul of its emergency management laws, in the wake of a series of record-breaking fire and flood seasons.
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said since the Emergency Program Act was introduced 26 years ago, both the size and scope of emergencies has grown, while the rules need to be updated to reflect both climate change and the UN’s Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction.
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Australian Journal of Emergency Management
Cyclones cause significant damage to property, infrastructure and housing. Fortunately, property owners can undertake structural upgrades to reduce damage. However, installation of structural upgrades in cyclone-prone regions such as North Queensland has been relatively low. This paper explains why some people do, and others do not, install structural upgrades.
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The IAEM-Oceania Council announced on Oct. 14, 2019, that its upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on Dec. 3, 2019. Meeting details will be announced as they become available. IAEM-Oceania also issued a call for nominations on Oct. 14 for the positions of the council’s president and secretary, with the nominations’ deadline set for Nov. 4, 2019, 5:00 p.m. AEDT. All candidate materials must be submitted by the deadline. Complete details were emailed to all IAEM-Oceania members on Oct. 14, 2019, and also are posted online in their entirety.
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The nominations period has ended for the IAEM-USA Region 9 special election for regional vice president. Voting will begin on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, when Region 9 voting members (Individual, Affiliate, Lifetime) will receive an email with a link to candidate information and a link to the online ballot. The voting period will end on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, 5:00 p.m. EST.
IAEM
FEMA seeks feedback on the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) guidance 2019 refresh during the secondary outreach and engagement period, Oct. 16-Nov. 8, 2019. This review is intended to improve HSEEP as a practical and yet effective tool for exercise planners and practitioners from across the whole community. Incorporating feedback, suggestions, lessons learned, and best practices will ensure that HSEEP best meets their needs. Review materials are available at https://www.fema.gov/hseep. The target release date for the HSEEP revision is January 2020. Feedback should be sent to HSEEP@fema.dhs.gov.
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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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The National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) announced that the recipient of the 2019 Lacy E. Suiter Distinguished Service Award is Ellen Gordon. For more than 30 years, Gordon has been selflessly serving the national emergency management profession at all levels of government and within academia. Her career began at the county level in Missouri which quickly lead to her service as the Iowa Governor's homeland security advisor and homeland security and emergency management administrator for 18 distinguished years of service. In 2006, Gordon created the NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security’s Executive Leaders’ Program in order to advance critical thinking, the importance of evidence-based knowledge and to inspire innovation in policy and strategy development amongst leaders of the emergency management and homeland security domains. Gordon continues to serve as the program manager and lead facilitator and to date has educated more than 1,000 executives and managers. She is also responsible for creating programs specifically for the Radiological Emergency Preparedness community and, most recently, the Emergence Program dedicated to providing advanced and high-level leadership skills to those just entering the emergency management and homeland security workforce. Ms. Gordon is a graduate of Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri with a Bachelor of Science degree in Law Enforcement and Corrections (Criminal Justice) and holds a Master of Arts in Security Studies (Homeland Defense and Homeland Security) from the Naval Postgraduate School.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released the fourth edition of the National Response Framework and the Emergency Support Function (ESF) #14 – Cross-Sector Business and Infrastructure Annex. These documents incorporate lessons learned from the 2017 hurricane and wildfire seasons. The updated framework remains scalable, flexible and adaptable, using the core capabilities identified in the National Preparedness Goal, and continues to focus on the capabilities necessary to save lives, protect property and the environment, and meet basic human needs during disasters. The new ESF #14 supports the coordination of cross-sector operations, including stabilization of key supply chains and Community Lifelines, among infrastructure owners and operators, businesses, and their government partners. Register to attend one of FEMA’s series of one-hour webinars for the whole community to describe updates and answer questions: Nov. 7, 2:00 p.m. ET; Nov. 12, 3:00 p.m. ET; Nov. 14, 1:00 p.m. ET; Nov. 19, 3:00 p.m. ET.
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Homeland Security Today
The United States and the Republic of Korea have entered into a bilateral partnership for deeper cooperation on science and technology research and development of solutions to disasters such as fire, storm, flood and earthquake and issues closely related to public safety such as security and infectious disease.
Homeland Security Today
Since 1980, weather disasters in the U.S. have caused more than $1.6 trillion in damage. Weather disasters, and federal spending on them, are expected to increase due to climate change, as our High Risk List indicates.
Federal efforts to promote disaster resilience can help limit damage — and cost.
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Australian Journal of Emergency Management
On 14 July 2019, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred 210 km off the coast of Broome. This event, equal to the largest recorded in Australia, has provided an important learning opportunity.
When the earthquake occurred, Geoscience Australia issued an earthquake notification.
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Homeland Preparedness News
Three agencies within the Department of Commerce have initiated a $1 million initiative they said is designed to accelerate disaster response and resilience technology.
The Economic Development Administration (EDA), in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) recently initiated the $1 Million Accelerate R2 Network Challenge.
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Homeland Security Today
The federal government faces challenges in helping communities recover from disasters. Disaster costs are projected to rise as extreme weather becomes more frequent and intense. Federal disaster assistance since 2005 has topped $450 billion.
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Emergency Management
The cantilevered palaces of Los Angeles' elite were under siege. "Apocalypse bags" were packed. LeBron James fled with his family and couldn't find a hotel room. News copters filmed the fire copters, as drivers on the 405 Freeway sailed through the fiery vortex and lived to Instagram it.
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Emergency Management
Hardening the schools from the outside and softening them on the inside might be a way to describe how the Framingham, Massachusetts, school district is approaching school safety. Among the new tools in the toolbox for hardening the schools is a gunshot-detection system, a visitor management system and ID badges for all students and staff.
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Emergency Management
On Sept. 17, threats of gun violence forced Yukon Public Schools to cancel classes for more than 9,000 students.
Posted on social media, the threats turned out not credible, but fearing the worst, administrators cancelled school so police could investigate.
Two students were arrested on complaints of terrorism by hoax.
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Homeland Security Today
A new Global Health Security Index, the first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across 195 countries, suggests that not a single country in the world is fully prepared to handle an epidemic or pandemic.
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Domestic Preparedness
The healthcare industry presents many challenges for emergency preparedness professionals. The planning process for a major crisis involves numerous stakeholders, each with their own plans and procedures. Emergency medical services and hospitals, in particular, are tasked with managing dynamic, ever-changing environments that are difficult to predict.
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Australian Journal of Emergency Management
Climate outlooks, also called long-range forecasts, tell us what rainfall and temperature patterns are expected in the weeks, months and seasons ahead. As such, they are powerful tools to help make decisions related to weather and climate variability.
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Australian Journal of Emergency Management
There is little disagreement that entering floodwater is risky, whether in a vehicle or on foot. There is usually little or no visibility of what is under the surface and even shallow water with moderate flow can make vehicles unstable or sweep people off their feet. In addition, floodwater will often contain contaminants and debris. Therefore, the safest course of action is to avoid entering floodwater.
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Center for Public Integrity
For most of 2019, we’ve been investigating natural disasters, particularly those that science shows are intensified by the planet’s warming. We now have data you can use as a guide to look for impacts.
Here’s the backstory: We wanted to know who’s being affected by these extreme weather events.
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Homeland Preparedness News
Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued last week new disaster resilience guidelines to help entities refine responses to the growing threat posed by natural disasters.
Disaster Resilience Framework: Principles for Analyzing Federal Efforts to Facilitate and Promote Resilience to Natural Disasters would assist in reducing rising costs associated with the federal response to climate and weather disasters.
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The Guardian
“The island is going to be placed where the British empire’s fleet once was,” says Anne Skovbro, looking out from her office in a 19th-century customs house over Copenhagen’s harbour.
She points out the mooring posts where tall ships once docked, the old masting crane that marked the harbour’s outer edge, and the patch of sea where Horatio Nelson is supposed to have held a telescope to his blind eye as his ships set the city’s medieval centre ablaze.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) just released the Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning Guide for Tribal Governments, designed to prepare tribal governments for recovery efforts from future disasters by engaging with the whole community and planning for recovery activities that are comprehensive and long term. The guide provides a range of planning activities, from basic to formal steps that include establishing recovery leadership, engaging the community, identifying existing resources, and creating new partnerships that can help all tribal governments build resilience.
Australian Journal of Emergency Management
Much has been written of the importance of emergency management organisations involving communities in risk-reduction measures before an emergency and working with them after a disaster event to recover. Having the local community involved generally leads to favourable post-disaster outcomes.
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PBS NewsHour
Fourteen years after Hurricane Katrina, the neighborhood of Gentilly, New Orleans, is still in the process of rebuilding.
Even after experiencing the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, residents wanted to stay in their neighborhoods– going so far as to fight the city’s controversial “green dot” plan, which would have abandoned neighborhoods like Gentilly and turned them into wetlands.
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Emergency Management
Earlier this year, the American Red Cross held its first annual Disaster Preparedness Summit at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C. What they envisioned as a small gathering of emergency managers ended up as a cavalcade of EM professionals of all stripes (both literally and figuratively) converging for a conversation on the state of preparedness in the National Capital Region (NCR) and beyond.
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The Conversation
Almost 200,000 Californians have been ordered to evacuate as ferocious winds drove several wildfires near Los Angeles, San Francisco and elsewhere. Many fear they may yet again return to a home ravaged by fire.
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Route Fifty
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York and New Jersey on October 29, 2012, the nation’s most populated city was crippled. Sandy’s winds extended out 1,000 miles—more than three times the size of Hurricane Katrina. The storm surge flooded 17 percent of the city’s total land mass.
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Japan Times
Japanese researchers have created an app to predict damage to skyscrapers by long-period ground motion from major earthquakes in distant areas, such as the swaying that hit Tokyo after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
The app will make predictions by floor and issue them before the swaying starts.
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The Daily Star
One of the well-researched probabilistic earthquake predictions was issued for San Francisco Bay area in the USA last year. The prediction stated that in the next 30 years, there is a 72 percent chance of having an earthquake of magnitude 6.7 on the Richter scale. In the Los Angeles area, the chances are about 60 percent within the same timeframe.
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Homeland Security Today
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the launch of a new state website with tools and resources for Californians who have been impacted by wildfires and utility-directed power shutoffs.
The website, RESPONSE.CA.GOV, combines emergency response, recovery and resilience information into a single place for easy access by users.
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IAEM
IAEM will be releasing a new version of all certification exams in early 2020. Individuals planning to take the IAEM Certification exam after January 20, 2020, should access the revised study guide from the IAEM certification website and review the updated resource list(s) to
prepare for the exam. All exam proctors still must be approved. Information about proctors can be found on page 5 of the study guide.
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Two CHDS programs are now seeking applications from those with responsibilities for radiological emergency preparedness. The In-residence REP Executive Education Program is designed for local, state, federal, tribal, territorial and industry leaders responsible for off-site, fixed nuclear facility emergency preparedness, response and recovery. Applications for the executive program must be received by Dec. 1, 2019. The In-residence REP Early Career Education Program is a unique opportunity for REP professionals who are in the early stage of their career. The program provides an educational forum and innovation lab for participants to explore emerging trends in the world around us in technology, society, and terrorism. Applications for the early career program must be received by Jan. 20, 2020.
Malay Mail
The Civil Defence Force (APM) currently has over 900 boats compared to 400 boats previously, in preparation for the monsoon floods, said chief commissioner Datuk Roslan Wahab.
“We expect the number of boats to be sufficient and in case of severe flooding we will also get help from other agencies such as the Fire and Rescue Department and the police,” he told reporters when met here today.
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Pattaya Mail
The National Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Command has reduced the level of disaster management in four northeastern provinces, namely Ubon Ratchathani, Yasothorn, Si Sa Ket and Roi Et, but will follow up on, coordinate and support the provinces’ related operations.
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Cyprus Mail
The civil defense department is launching a nationwide campaign to inform local authorities, public services, the general public and other stakeholders on flood-risk management, utilising the interactive flood maps prepared by the water development department for the purpose of taking protective measures, it announced on Tuesday.
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Japan Times
The alert level for a volcano on an island in Kagoshima Prefecture was raised Monday after a large-scale earthquake was recorded near the crater the previous night, the Meteorological Agency said.
The volcano warning level for Mount Shindake on Kuchinoerabu Island was upgraded from 2 to 3 on a scale of 5, according to the agency. The new level advises climbers to refrain from scaling the mountain.
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Reuters via WHTC-Radio
Ravaged by a series of storms, including the worst typhoon in decades, Japan is ramping up spending on rescue, repair and clean-up. But there's a catch: there are more shovels than hands.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has agreed to use $6.5 million for immediate disaster relief, looks set to tap into budget reserves of $5 billion, and may request more money to finance construction after Typhoon Hagibis tore through much of Japan's main island this month, killing 79 with seven still missing.
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The Japan Times
Many of the deaths seen during recent powerful typhoons in Japan occurred while victims were traveling in vehicles, local authorities said Monday, underscoring the need for people to evacuate early and reach safety with plenty of time to spare.
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The Manila Times
A total of 1,343 families were displaced after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Mindanao island recently, National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported on Saturday.
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The Telegraph
Incessant rain in the past three days flooded 14 locations in Dimapur district, leaving many families homeless and submerging several houses.
A report from the Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority on Sunday said flooding has been reported at 1.30pm at Toulazouma, Bade, Tsithrongse and Selouphe villages, Naharbari, Darogajan, Ekhyo Yan (Domokhia), Purana Bazar B, Purana Bazar Model colony, Khushiabil, Siethekema Basa — 7th Mile village, Thahekhu village block 7, Thilixu B-3 and Khopanala village.
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Hartford Courant
Heavy rains that pummeled the capital of Cairo and other parts of the country, causing massive traffic jams and flooding many key roads, left at least eight people dead, including four children, authorities said Wednesday.
People captured images of Tuesday's downpours and flooding on their mobile phones, posting images on social media, including scenes of cars submerged by flood waters.
Gulf News
Rescuers worked by hand to clear debris from a landslide triggered by heavy rains in central Japan on Saturday, as the toll from the storms rose to 10 dead with a further three people reportedly missing.
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BBC News
People have been rescued from their homes by boat after parts of the Midlands were flooded.
In Hereford at least 20 homes were flooded and residents at a care home had to be rescued.
The Environment Agency said in one part of the city — Greyfriars "the only way in or out" was by boat.
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CNBC
A new wildfire broke out in Los Angeles on Monday and blazes fanned by high wind spread elsewhere in California, a day after Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency.
Planned utility shutoffs left millions without power. Shares of Pacific Gas and Electric fell more than 15% on Monday, hitting a new 52-week low of $3.55 per share.
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CNA
A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines Tuesday (Oct 29), killing seven people, cracking buildings and injuring many in a region still reeling from a previous deadly tremor.
Terrified locals ran into the streets after the 6.6-magnitude quake, which hit the island of Mindanao as schools and offices opened for the day.
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The Associated Press via KABC-TV
Authorities ordered at least 50,000 residents to evacuate towns near a massive Northern California wildfire Saturday, and the state's largest utility announced power shut-offs for an estimated 2.35 million people due to forecasts of severe winds and extreme fire danger.
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