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The Daily Signal
In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, the nation's local emergency managers are gathered in a "Paris" ballroom (at the hotel in Las Vegas). While the location was a coincidence, a focus on responding to acts of terrorism is by design.
Al-Qaeda's quest for "spectacular" attacks on the homeland has morphed into ISIS' more pragmatic goal: To terrorize by any means possible. And the terrorists who struck Friday in Paris achieved that goal as grief and fear have gripped that city.
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Emergency Management
As keynote speaker at the International Association of Emergency Managers conference, Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center, compared the uncertainty of medical science to the science of predicting hurricanes.
In his keynote, at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Knabb relayed a story of trying to find out the sex of his unborn child. Knabb and his wife had visited a technician who went through all the necessary steps and announced that the couple was going to have a girl.
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International Business Times
The terrorist attacks in Paris Friday night put the Western world on high alert, but it also raised a critical question: Why France again? The U.S. is the highest-profile target for the Islamic State group, and the most frequent target of its threats. So why haven't we seen a full-scale attack anywhere in the U.S. like the one perpetrated on Paris?
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The El Niño event of 2015-2016 is making history, wreaking weather havoc around the world and forecast to unleash many weather surprises through the coming winter.
As of today, the warm ocean temperatures that define El Niño have surged to a stunning three degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal in the central tropical Pacific, the highest level ever measured.
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IAEM
The IAEM 2015 Annual Conference closed on Nov. 18, but there is still a way to see the presentations that you missed. If you were one of the more than 1800 conference attendees, your registration fee includes complimentary access to the IAEM Digital Pass, and you don't have to separately purchase the pass to see any recorded sessions you did not attend. If you were not a conference attendee, you can still reap benefits from the conference by purchasing the Digital Pass for $99 (IAEM members) or $197 (non-members). Participation in the Annual Conference via Digital Pass earns credit toward the IAEM Certified Emergency Manager (CEM®) program under Training or Professional Contribution — Category B, Professional Conference Attendance. Those who registered for the conference or are now registering for the Digital Pass receive an email with access information. To learn more, visit the IAEM Annual Conference microsite. Refer questions about access to recorded sessions to IAEM Communications & Marketing Manager Dawn Shiley.
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Fox News
When Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the central Philippines two years ago, flattening entire villages and killing thousands, the country became a poster child for the havoc wrought by global warming and increasingly extreme weather.
French President Francoise Holland traveled early this year to the devastated town of Guiuan, ground zero of the strongest cyclone ever to make landfall, to show the world the damage and appeal for an ambitious deal at global climate change talks in Paris at the end of this month.
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The Australian
The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, to be based in Melbourne, will pool resources and knowledge from the Australasian Fire and Emergency Services Authorities Council, the Australian Red Cross, the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre and the Attorney-General's department.
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IAEM
IAEM joined 14 national and state stakeholder organizations in signing on to two National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) letters sent to Congress and the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) in support of funding for the Medical Reserve Corps, a national network of volunteers organized locally to protect the health and safety of their communities. The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) covers more than 90 percent of the U.S. population through a force that exceeds 206,000 volunteers in more than 950 geographically-based units nationwide, including several U.S. territories. Two-thirds of MRC units are coordinated by local health departments. MRC volunteers provide an important community service, both filling gaps in routine health services and responding in emergency situations. The FY 2016 House Labor, HHS appropriations bill cuts the MRC by one third and the Senate bill cuts the program by half. The request to provide $11 million for the Medical Reserve Corps President's FY 2017 budget proposal would restore the MRC to its FY 2013 funding level. While it is a relatively small program, the MRC maintains a critical connection between volunteer units and the federal emergency preparedness infrastructure. Sustained funding for the MRC program is needed to ensure that community partners are ready to act and protect their residents when natural or manmade emergencies occur. The sign-on letters are posted here.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is seeking public comment on proposed changes to regulations describing FEMA's Individual Assistance declarations criteria. The proposed rule, published in the Federal Register, expands and clarifies current factors and aligns them with the data presently collected to support the evaluation process and adds additional data sets easily accessible by states. FEMA collaborated with state, local, and tribal emergency management agencies during the process of developing the proposed rule and conducted outreach with stakeholders, including meetings with IAEM, NEMA, the National Advisory Council, FEMA regional offices, and tribal governments. The proposed rule would revise the current factors by including: state fiscal capacity and resource availability; uninsured home and personal property losses; disaster-impacted population profile; impact to community infrastructure; casualties; and disaster-related unemployment. Submit comments online by Jan. 11, 2016, and direct any questions to FEMA-IGA@fema.dhs.gov.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Nov. 17 announced the release of FEMA's leadership intent to implement the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS). The Intent describes the framework FEMA is proposing to implement for the Jan. 30 Executive Order 13690 and the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard. The executive order gives federal agencies the flexibility to choose from one or more approaches to identify an elevation requirement above the base flood elevation, and also amends a previous order to establish a higher level of resilience. The Intent provides FEMA's approach to standardize multiple elevation requirements. FEMA is sharing the framework for public comment on its website, with more information posted here, or send comments to FEMA-EO11988-13690@fema.dhs.gov.
NPR
How prepared are American police for something like the Paris attacks?
On one level — experience with active shooters — American police unfortunately have more experience than police in any other country. Figures vary, but USA Today has counted more than 200 "mass killings" in the U.S. since 2006. Much of the training of American officers is built on lessons learned from the 1999 Columbine High School attack, which taught police to be aggressive in active-shooter situations. Instead of just securing a shooting scene to wait for tactical units, police are now told to enter as quickly as possible and disrupt the attack.
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WFOR-TV
In a secretly located bunker-like building in Miami-Dade, detectives and analysts from Key West to the Palm Beaches work to connect the dots on potential terror.
The Southeast Florida Fusion Center, or Homeland Security Bureau, fuses local, state and federal intelligence on potential threats. They have been hugely busy since Friday’s terror in Paris.
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The IAEM-Global Student Council (IAEM-GSC) is proud to announce a program to sponsor five IAEM student members in good standing to obtain their Associate Emergency Manager (AEM®) certification. This program will fully cover the costs of obtaining an AEM® certification, provided the candidate can complete all requirements within one year. For details and requirements, visit the Student Council News page, where you can download the call for applications and the FAQs sheet. Email completed application packages to iaemgsc@gmail.com, no later than Friday, Dec. 18, 2015, 17:00 EST.
Daily Mail
When an enormous earthquake hit off the coast Chile in 2010, it shook the country for around three minutes, triggering a tsunami that claimed the lives of 525 people.
In the months following the magnitude 8.8 earthquake, the fifth largest to be ever recorded, the country was battered by a series of alarming and large aftershocks.
Now scientists have discovered there may be something that makes such natural disasters even more dangerous — a hidden type of earthquake that occurs immediately after the first.
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Reuters
Facebook Inc vowed to turn on its "Safety Check" feature more often during disasters in response to growing criticism that it only enabled the function after the attacks in Paris.
In the wake of the deadliest attack on Europe in over a decade that killed at least 129 people and injured many more, millions of people used Facebook's Safety Check tool to tell their friends they were safe.
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TechCrunch
As terror attacks put France into a national state of emergency, Airbnb, Facebook, Google, Skype, Twitter and Uber launched into disaster response mode.
Airbnb contacted all hosts in Paris asking if they could take in those stranded in the city. Facebook let users alert their friends they were safe. Google offered free calls to Paris via Hangouts, as did Skype, Verizon and Sprint. Uber turned off surge pricing in the city for the weekend, despite initial reports to the contrary. Twitter helped people find a place to stay with the hashtag #PorteOuverte and kept the rest of the world informed.
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The Telegraph
The London Fire Brigade has launched a new system for handling 999 calls in the capital, which uses GPS tracking technology and real-time status information — similar to taxi apps like Uber — to match fire engines with nearby emergencies.
The system allows the Brigade's control officers to track all of London's 155 fire engines and assign the closest available fire engine to an emergency. They can then watch each fire engine's journey on-screen, while at the same time reassuring callers as to the estimated time of arrival.
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Phys.Org
The text message Heidi Hurst received from her father contained only four words: "headed for higher ground." Sitting in a Harvard classroom, she felt helpless as her father frantically packed the car to escape floodwaters that were rapidly approaching the family's Colorado home.
The rushing floodwaters came, but thankfully the family's home was spared.
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BBC News
A team of architects and inventors from Somerset has designed a house which can be built out of plastic rubbish.
The idea is for it to be used in disaster zones where people have lost their property.
It can be built in a matter of hours, and will be presented to aid agencies across the world at a conference in Brussels.
Nick Stillwell, of Protomax, designed the plastic boards and invented the machine which makes them.
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IAEM
FEMA has rolled out an El Niño resources web page that provides the most current information and resources needed to be ready for El Niño, a weather pattern that is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures along the equator in the Pacific Ocean, with important consequences for weather and climate in the United States, particularly during winter. Information suggests this winter could bring weather heavily affected by El Niño, which could include floods, droughts, landslides, and other severe winter weather. Visit www.fema.gov/el-nino for more information on how to prepare for severe weather, where to learn more about purchasing flood insurance, state level resources, and current El Niño news.
IAEM
The InterAgency Board (IAB) recently published a white paper on Prevalence of Untreated Severe Mental Illness in U.S. Communities Places Unmanageable Burden on First Responders and Law Enforcement, stating that since the U.S. public mental health system is not adequately resourced to meet the treatment needs of individuals with severe mental illness (SMI), the burden of addressing inadequately treated mental illness and addictions in the community has largely fallen to first responders, including law enforcement, fire, medical, and emergency departments. Current research indicates that early community-based provision of comprehensive evidence-based mental health treatment and addiction recovery services effectively reduces burdens on first responders and law enforcement, while reducing the trauma that individuals with mental illness and addictions and their families experience. The report states it is "essential that first-response agencies advocate strongly, in their own communities and on the state and national levels, for comprehensive, functional, proactive mental health treatment and addiction recovery systems. Recommended action items include: utilization of evidence-based emerging practices to treat SMI; improvement of consistency of evidence-based inpatient civil commitment standards; increase in community continuum of care availability, including sufficient inpatient psychiatric beds; and provision of adequate funding for mental illness and addiction recovery services."
IAEM
In the Nov. 12 issue of the IAEM Dispatch, an incorrect link was provided to the Department of Homeland Security's Emergency Services Sector-Specific Agency's recently published Impersonation of First Responders Fact Sheet, now available for download here. First responders provide the first line of defense for nearly all critical infrastructure sectors and the general public during natural disasters and other physical emergencies. However, malicious actors, both international and domestic, seeking to exploit the public trust first responders have earned, have sought to impersonate first responders in order to do harm to the American people, exploit site vulnerabilities, or destroy critical infrastructure. Malicious actions include the acquisition of authentic or fraudulent uniforms, equipment, vehicles, and other items that may be associated with law enforcement, fire, and emergency services personnel. Therefore, it is imperative emergency services organizations maintain an awareness of the current threat environment and continue to remain vigilant.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Individual and Community Preparedness Division will present a webinar on "Preparing Individuals Disproportionately Impacted by Disasters" on Nov. 23, 2015, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST. Discussion will center on disaster preparedness efforts to serve those people who are disproportionately impacted during emergencies due to risk factors that include limited English proficiency, culture, socioeconomics, and national identity. Featured speakers are: Iskra Gencheva, Ready New York, New York City Citizen Corps, New York City CERT; Sarah Babcock, New Orleans Medical Reserve Corps; Dana Perry, Newport News CERT; and Tom Hipper, The National Resource Center on Advancing Emergency Preparedness for Culturally Diverse Communities. Register online.
IAEM
FEMA's Emergency Management Institute, in partnership with DHS Office of Academic Engagement, FEMA Region VII, and the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), will present a webinar, "Tools for Creating Campus Resilience," on Dec. 16, 2015, 1:30-2:30 p.m. EST. The webinar will focus on ReadyCampus, the DHS Campus Resilience Pilot Program for Colleges and Universities, and the USFA's Campus Fire Safety Program. Register in advance for the online webinar.
Fox News
A German soccer stadium and concert arena were evacuated less than two hours before a friendly match between Germany and the Netherlands after police uncovered a "concrete" bomb threat.
It happened just four days after the Paris attacks that targeted a stadium and several restaurants, killing more than 120 people.
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The Telegraph
Storm Abigail hit the U.K. earlier than predicted, seeing flights cancelled in Ireland and schools closed in Scotland.
All schools and nurseries in the Western Isles will be shut to pupils as gusts of up to 90mph are forecast and flood warnings are issued across the country.
The Met Office has amber "be prepared" warnings in place for rain and wind in the north west of Scotland, while yellow "be aware" warnings cover much of the rest of Scotland.
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The Associated Press via The Huffington Post
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of at least 6.1 hit the western Greek island of Lefkada, killing two people, sparking landslides and causing extensive damage to roads and buildings on Lefkada and nearby islands.
The temblor was felt across western Greece prompting residents on Lefkada and the nearby Ionian Sea island of Kefalonia to rush out onto the streets.
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The Globe and Mail
Severe weather along Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast claimed five lives, including three children who drowned, and closed schools and universities, the country's Civil Defence said.
An 11 year-old child drowned in the western province of Yanbu, apparently due to a valley flooding. Another child, whose age was not disclosed, died after being swept by floodwaters in the northwestern province of Ha'il. A third child was confirmed dead after drowning in area on the outskirts of Jiddah, the Civil Defence authority said.
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The Weather Channel
In southern India, days of heavy rain have led to deadly floods, claiming more than 70 lives, according to recent media reports.
India's air force has deployed to rescue residents of the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Reuters reports a relief fund has also been set up to aid those affected. In Tamil Nadu's capital of Chennai, schools, colleges and trains have all been shut down because of the flooding, with rescue efforts underway to get residents to safety and deliver clean water and food to those stranded.
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The Associated Press via AOL
The death toll from a landslide that buried homes in eastern China has risen to 25 people with 12 others still missing, a local government said.
A torrent of mud and rocks unleashed by heavy rains buried nearly 30 homes in a village in Zhejiang province.
The Lishui city government, which administers Lidong village, where the landslide happened, said that 25 bodies had been found as well as one survivor, who was in stable condition.
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ThinkProgress
Nine people are dead, 19 are missing, and 250,000 still don't have drinking water two weeks after two dams at a mine in Brazil collapsed, sending 15.8 billion gallons of waste-laden water and sludge though downstream towns in the state of Minas Gerais, about 250 miles north of Rio de Janero.
Brazil’s president compared the disaster to the 2005 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Hundreds of people have been displaced and an entire town was swept away by the floodwaters.
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The Washington Post
There was recently an intense severe weather situation in the Plains — an outbreak we're more likely to see in April than mid-November. Dozens of tornadoes were reported and at least one wedge tornado churned through the Texas Panhandle in the dark, narrowly avoiding populated cities and towns.
Incredibly, there have been no reports of injuries, though thousands of people have been left without power due to the storms.
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The Weather Channel
A rash of tornadoes struck a swath of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, causing damage in at least three of those states as a severe weather outbreak began across the central and southern Plains. Flooding was reported in Missouri and Arkansas as the storms marched east.
Local National Weather Service offices confirmed 16 tornadoes in Texas, Kansas and Nebraska. A number of tornadoes reported during the outbreak have yet to be confirmed, and severe weather expert Dr. Greg Forbes estimates that a total of 28 tornadoes struck the four-state region.
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