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Route Fifty
For Iowa City, Dubuque Street is an important corridor, providing an artery for roughly 25,000 vehicles to travel each day between the city and Interstate 80, which runs along the northern edge of town.
But historically the road has been prone to flooding from the nearby Iowa River, which snakes alongside it to the west, as well as flash floods caused by heavy rains.
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WFAE-Radio
Two major hurricanes hit North Carolina in the last month, and, while the damage was severe to some parts of the state, damage from flooding in the Charlotte area was less than it would have been a decade ago. That wasn’t by accident — in fact, it was years in the making.
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University of Delaware
A nonprofit established in the memory of pioneering disaster-studies researcher William A. Anderson and dedicated to his goal of improving diversity in the field announced last year that it would make the University of Delaware its home.
Now, during the recent Bill Anderson Fund (BAF) fall workshop at UD for graduate students in disaster studies, the designation of the University as the fund’s flagship institution has become official. UD and BAF representatives signed documents on Oct. 19 formalizing the connection.
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Emergency Management
Brent Larson awoke at 4 a.m. to the shake and rumble of what felt like a freight train rolling down the hill toward his Santa Barbara County home.
He leaped from his bed and woke his two sons. In seconds, a wall of water, mud and rock slammed into his house, smashing through one window, then the next, then a third, pouring in as the trio sprinted to the safety of the chimney at the home’s far corner.
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Relief Web
In 2017, IOM elaborated a four-year plan of action to guide the Organization’s disaster risk reduction work in support of States’ efforts to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The IOM Strategic Work Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience 2017-2020 was designed to help measure progress against the benchmarks of the Sendai Framework and the UN Plan of Action on Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience, while seeking to foster a more coherent, all-of-organization approach to reducing risks and strengthening resilience.
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The First Nations Wildfire Evacuation Partnership brings together researchers at the University of Alberta and Canadian Forest Services; seven First Nations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario; and agencies that carry out or provide support during wildfire evacuations. The research team, which interviewed more than 200 residents to learn about First Nation peoples’ wildfire evacuation experiences and identify ways to reduce negative impacts of evacuations, found that all participating First Nations carried out their evacuations effectively in difficult circumstances. There were many examples of adaptive resilience, but also instances of negative mental and physical health impacts on evacuees. To learn more, read the article, “Research Advice for Emergency Managers from the First Nations Wildfire Evacuation Partnership” (HAZNET, Spring 2018), and download an infographic summary.
Homeland Security Today
Recent high-profile attacks by malicious state and non-state actors against both commercial interests and government elections, which play a vital role in our democratic process, have created a renewed sense of urgency to better understand and protect critical operations. In the past few years cybersecurity has come to the forefront and is now considered a critical issue for local governments, particularly now that the current threat environment has moved from stateside hackers to sophisticated nation-state sponsored actors.
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Homeland Security Today
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) partners with a local healthcare coalition to identify challenges and dependencies around the flow of medical goods from manufacturer to patient in the nation’s largest city.
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Domestic Preparedness
Although 2017 was a historic year for natural disasters, 2018 is turning out to be more of the same. Filled with wildfires, tornadoes, floods, tropical systems and the devastating Hurricanes Florence and Michael, it appears the frequency of natural disasters is increasing.
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EDM Digest
Mass casualty incidents and the ensuing chaos are complicated to manage. There needs to be a definite correlation between what resources are available and the seriousness of the injuries.
Policies and management systems like the Incident Command System certainly help to facilitate the overall coordination of a mass casualty incident. After every incident, there is usually an investigation and an after-action report that details the lessons learned.
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Route Fifty
Faced with the daunting task of beginning recovery operations after Hurricane Florence, officials in New Hanover County, North Carolina decided on a comprehensive strategy: establishing a new office tasked solely with navigating the often-confusing bureaucracy of state and federal recovery resources.
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WRAL-TV
Six years after Hurricane Sandy, there are still about 2,000 households mired in the rebuilding process.
Multiply that number by the tens of thousands of homes across the Southeast following hurricanes Florence and Michael, and the work ahead looks daunting, to say the least.
This is mostly because the United States lacks a unified, permanent national disaster recovery system.
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Route Fifty
As Hurricane Florence slowly moved over North Carolina, dropping inches upon inches of rain and inundating communities, residents made an average of 25,000 911 calls a day for nine days.
But State Chief Information Officer Eric Boyette, who chairs the state 911 board responsible for all 911 communications in North Carolina, said they were able to meet the demand.
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IAEM
The Certification Commission is accepting draft exam questions for possible inclusion in future exam versions. Use the Exam Submission Form, and email your draft questions to Kate McClimans. If five of your questions are accepted, you will receive credit toward “Other Professional Contributions” in your next recertification application.
IAEM
IAEM-USA Region 1 is holding a regional conference on Nov. 16-27, 2018, at Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. Registration is available online, and an updated agenda has been posted. Get in touch with Eric Sawyer to find out more about exhibiting at the conference or
becoming a sponsor. This is a prime opportunity to network with other Region 1 members. Learn more at the conference event site.
IAEM
As part of the Thursday Learning Webinar Series, IAEM is offering “Increased Preparedness Working with Non-Traditional Partners.” The webinar will be presented by Rita Anderson, environmental scientist, Freese and Nichols, Inc., on Nov. 15, 2018, 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST. Emergency managers often work with schools and hospitals to develop and exercise emergency action plans. However, dam and levee owners often have plans as well. The webinar will explore how integrated levee emergency action plans have improved preparedness throughout the speaker’s district, through a multi-departmental approach to planning, training and response. Review the full description on the IAEM website. Register online.
ABS-CBN News
The country should be using dynamic maps capable of hazard-specific, area-focused, and time-bound warnings to help shield itself from storm surges and massive devastation from violent typhoons like Yolanda (international name Haiyan) that brought this city to its knees five years ago.
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Daily Mail
Australia and the Asia-Pacific was the most disaster-prone region in the world last year.
The Red Cross 2018 World Disaster Report, released on Tuesday, found the region suffered through two-fifth of the 335 cyclones/hurricanes, floods, bushfires and earthquakes recorded worldwide.
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New Straits Times
The tsunami warning system installed nationwide is sufficient to give early warning on any such incoming disaster.
Deputy Energy, Science, Technology, Environment, and Climate Change Minister Isnaraissah Munirah Majilis said that the system uses tide gauges, coastal cameras, and sirens that is enough to issue early warning to Malaysians.
"There are 77 seismometres, 53 sirens, 17 tide gauges, and 15 coastal cameras installed nationwide.
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EDM Digest
Hurricane Willa made landfall on Tuesday near Isla del Bosque in Mexico’s Sinaloa state as a Category 3 storm. Once classified as a Category 5, the storm weakened on land. Nevertheless, news reports said the storm had estimated wind speeds of 120 mph.
Where a hurricane strikes can determine how serious an emergency will ensue.
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Reuters
An Indonesian airliner crashed into the sea on Monday, with the likely loss of all 189 people on board, as it tried to return to Jakarta minutes after take-off. Lion Air flight JT610, an almost new Boeing 737 MAX 8, was en route from the capital to Pangkal Pinang, center of the Bangka-Belitung tin mining region. Rescue officials said they had recovered human remains from the crash site, about 15 km (nine miles) off the coast.
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PBS NewsHour
Venice was inundated by an exceptional high tide Monday, putting three-quarters of the famed Italian lagoon city under water as large swathes of the rest of Italy experienced flooding and heavy winds that toppled trees, killing four people.
Tourists and residents alike donned high boots to navigate the streets of Venice after strong winds raised the water level 156 centimeters (over 5 feet) before receding.
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The Garden Island
Heavy rains and high winds buffeting much of Italy have killed 10 people over two days, officials said Tuesday.
Many of the deaths were due to falling trees crashing down on cars or passers-by, but they also included a woman who was buried by mud when a landslide invaded her home near Trento in northern Italy and a man who was slammed against rocks while windsurfing in Emilia-Romagna.
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Reuters
Landslides killed four people and trapped at least 31 others on Tuesday in a mountainous region of the Philippines, officials said, as Typhoon Yutu barreled across the country with strong winds and rains. Yutu, the 18th typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, swept across the main island of Luzon with wind speeds of 140 km per hour (87 miles per hour) and gusts of up to 230 kph (142 mph), before heading west over the South China Sea, the state weather agency said.
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The Weather Channel
A bushfire burning in Western Australia raged on after burning more than 2 million acres of land – roughly six times the size of Los Angeles.
The fire, which was labeled a "gigafire" by Wildfire Today after it eclipsed 1 million acres, is burning about 75 miles southeast of Broome as windy conditions and warm spring weather have fanned the flames.
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TIME
The death toll from flash floods near Jordan’s shore of the Dead Sea rose to 21 on Friday, in what Civil Defense officials said was one of the deadliest incidents in the kingdom involving schoolchildren.
The search for survivors continued after daybreak, with helicopters and teams with sniffer dogs scouring the rocky slopes near the Dead Sea in the Jordan Valley.
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