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If you were unable to attend the IAEM 2015 Annual Conference, there is still a way to see the presentations that you missed and earn certification credits. Participation in the Annual Conference via Digital Pass earns credit toward the IAEM Certified Emergency Manager (CEM®) and Associate Emergency Manager (AEM®) programs under Training or Professional Contribution (Category B, Professional Conference Attendance). If you were one of the more than 1,800 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. The 2015 digital pass gives you access to several live streams of the keynote and plenary sessions, as well as one recorded session in each spotlight and breakout session block, plus the EMvision Talks, for a total of 14 learning opportunities. The Digital Pass is available for $99 (IAEM members) or $197 (non-members). 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 Digital Pass page. Refer questions about access to recorded sessions to IAEM Communications & Marketing Manager Dawn Shiley.
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If you benefited from the IAEM 2015 Annual Conference, or if you missed the conference and feel left out, mark your calendars now for the IAEM 2016 Annual Conference & EMEX. Built on the theme of "Today's Emergency Management: Working in a Complex World," the IAEM 2016 Annual Conference will be held Oct. 14-20, 2016, Savannah, Georgia.
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Register today to reserve your space at the IAEM Think Tank event on the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), the U.S. solution for effectively communicating emergency alerts and warnings, scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, 12:00-1:30 p.m. EST. IPAWS is available for use by local, state, territorial, tribal, and federal public alerting authorities to send emergency messages to the public in their geographic area. 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 the 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); and emerging technologies that adhere to the Common Alerting Protocol Standards. Former FEMA Deputy Administrator Richard Serino will facilitate the IAEM Think Tank. 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 (Virginia) Office of Emergency Management; and Lillian McDonald, ECHO Minnesota/Twin Cities Public Television.
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Tour the IAEM Store to view and purchase logowear online. Items will ship within 12 days directly to you. Browse available items to see an array of great styles and colors, in a full range of sizes for both men and women (some kidswear, as well). The IAEM logo — and the CEM®/AEM® logos for qualified individuals — can be added to any of these items, including shirts, headwear, outerwear, bags, and accessories. The CEM® and AEM® challenge coins are available for any individual to purchase. You also can order a CEM® or AEM® plaque or pin once certified, or purchase an IAEM membership lapel pin. Suggestions for items to be added to the store may be emailed to Communications and Marketing Manager Dawn M. Shiley.
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Each year the IAEM-Global Editorial Work Group recommends special focus issue topics to the IAEM-Global Board. Special focus issues of the IAEM Bulletin are published four times a year, are generally longer than the other monthly issues, and focus on one special topic of interest to the IAEM membership. For issues that are not on a special theme, articles on any topics of interest to IAEM members are welcome. In 2015, we published special focus issues on these four topics: Consequence Management and Public Health Implications; Social Media and Emergency Management; Marketing your EM Program; and Expanding the Spectrum of Emergency Management. What topics are you interested in learning about or sharing your knowledge with members in 2016? The Editorial Work Group welcomes your suggestions. Please share your ideas with Karen Thompson, editor, or Daryl Spiewak, work group chair, by Dec. 1, 2015.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
Six scientists convicted of manslaughter for advice they gave ahead of the deadly L'Aquila earthquake in 2009 today were definitively acquitted by Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation in Rome following lengthy deliberations by a panel of five judges. But the court upheld the conviction of a public official tried alongside them.
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The Guardian
EU ministers are to hold emergency talks on Friday on tightening border checks after the killing of the alleged ringleader of the Paris attacks in an apartment in the French capital put European leaders under intense pressure to get a grip on Europe's external and internal borders.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the attacks in the name of Islamic State, which left 129 people dead, died in Wednesday's assault by police on an apartment in northern Paris.
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Modern Healthcare
Soon after terrorists killed 129 people and wounded more than 350 others in Paris on Friday night, the city activated its "Plan Blanc" strategy, a coordinated response to mass casualty facilitated by its hospitals' largely municipal governance.
France, a country roughly the size of the state of Texas, organizes hospital response plans on a local level but within a national frame. Each region's Plan Blanc fits within the Orsan plan, a nationalized strategy to prepare for mass casualty events such as accidents, disasters or public health emergencies.
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Chicago Sun Times
After the Islamic State attacks, Democratic Mayor Walter Maddox took note of the Parisian security staff that prevented a suicide bomber from entering the French national soccer stadium. His thoughts turned to Bryant-Denny Stadium — where more than 100,000 people gather for University of Alabama football games.
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The Hindu
The four-day World Congress on Disaster Management concluded with the unanimous adoption of "Visakhapatnam Declaration" calling for a comprehensive action plan for a disaster-resilient society.
The declaration drafted after deliberations by over 1,000 delegates from 40 countries and 20 States in 25 sessions recommended effective funding mechanism by creating national disaster mitigation fund for resource implementation of local plans and building a platform of knowledge management, good practices and innovations at local level.
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The Columbian
Army medic Sgt. Leslie Peterson hesitated to answer when a medic from the Chinese military asked a basic question about how Peterson would care for a soldier badly wounded in battle.
"Can I answer that?" Peterson asked a higher-ranking U.S. soldier.
Peterson was given a blessing to respond. Then she continued her demonstration that won applause from a couple dozen visitors at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
A lethal gender gap causing women to die in natural disasters at up to 14 times the rate of men has sparked a Melbourne-based campaign to save lives by improving responses to catastrophes.
Australian nonprofit The Global Women's Project has found that women and girls are disproportionately affected by emergencies such as bushfires, earthquakes and tsunamis, due to entrenched gender inequalities.
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Reuters via The Huffington Post
Weather-related disasters such as floods and heat waves have occurred almost daily in the past decade — nearly twice as often as two decades ago — and Asia is the hardest-hit region, the United Nations said in a report.
While the report's authors didn't pin the increase wholly on climate change, they said extreme weather events were likely to increase.
Since 1995, weather disasters have killed 606,000 people, left 4.1 billion injured, homeless or in need of aid, and accounted for 90 percent of all disasters, it said.
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Wired
In the early days of the Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization's response was so lackadaisical it screwed up even the chlorine. The disinfectant doctors got was expired. The outbreak has since killed over 11,000 people, and three new cases flared up in Liberia this week—after officials had declared the country Ebola free. Twice.
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The Express Tribune
The deadly earthquake that struck northern Pakistan last month exposed the nation's lack of preparedness and weak resilience to respond, cope with, and recover from natural disasters. It is ironic that a country that has been struck by at least 40 earthquakes since 1970 has still not been able to strengthen resilience to reduce disaster risk. The majority of our people lack awareness regarding what to do and what not to do in an event of a natural disaster.
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New York Daily News
The city is looking at bringing in drones for everything from catastrophic fires and natural disasters to tree pruning and traffic jams, officials said Monday.
Henry Jackson, deputy commissioner of Emergency Management, told the City Council agencies are considering a host of uses for the unmanned aerial vehicles — like disaster response after a major storm.
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Digital Trends
Wildfire detection is headed to space thanks to a team of mission design specialists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The team came up with the idea of equipping over 200 satellites with sensors to detect thermal events such as wildfires on a global scale. This FireSat sensor network will significantly improve ground wildfire detection and provide information on other thermal activities such as illegal gas flaring, volcanic eruptions and more.
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Digital Journal
Disaster responses now revolve around technology. Driven by big data and the almost universal spread of smartphones, it's now apps like Facebook and Twitter that are most useful to both the aid workers helping disaster victims and those people themselves.
The damage caused by tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes can be devastating, crippling cities, ruining homes and businesses and tearing families apart.
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IAEM
If current CEMs® and AEMs® are scheduled to recertify in 2015, they must submit their recertification applications through the online certification portal by Dec. 31, 2015, 11:59 p.m. EST. Candidates must submit the recertification fee before they are eligible to submit their application. IAEM requires 24 hours to process the recertification payment after it is submitted online, before the blue "submit application" button becomes visible within the online application. Candidates for recertification have successfully submitted their application when they click on the blue "submit application" button, located on the candidate dashboard within the online application, after which they will receive an automatically-generated email confirming that their application was submitted. Visit the IAEM recertification web page to learn more.
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The InterAgency Board (IAB) recently published a report on "Improving Active Shooter/Hostile Event (ASHE) Response: Best Practices and Recommendations for Integrating Law Enforcement, Fire, and EMS." The report address best practices and recommendations in five focus areas: policy; planning; medical, rescue and equipment; training and exercises; and incident command. It condenses and organizes 29 specific recommendations into 10 broader recommended best practices. The IAB will continue to be a platform on this topic. This report will help guide future working meetings focused on preparing detailed, implementable guidelines scaleable for use by all jurisdictions in planning, training, exercising, and responding to an ASHE. The report was compiled by participants of the Active Shooter Summit, convened by the IAB in Charlotte, North Carolina, Mar. 17-19, 2015. Participants included law enforcement, fire, and EMS responders from municipalities in the United States and United Kingdom, several state and federal agencies, and Texas State University. Download here.
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The goal of this report is to reveal the factors that are leading to the unnecessary fire deaths of college students. This study provides comprehensive information about campus fire fatalities to college and university fire and safety officials along with the local fire and emergency service organizations that serve these institutions so they can better plan to reduce and prevent injuries and deaths on college campuses in the future.
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State and local 911 professionals, Federal agency representatives, and other 911 stakeholders are invited to participate in a "State of 911" webinar and question-and-answer session, presented by the National 911 Program. The webinar will feature a presentation by the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Tim May, Policy and Licensing Division, FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, will share an update on the 911 activities of the commission. Also presenting and available for questions is Eric Parry from the Utah Communications Authority, 911 Division. Discussions will include an update from the FCC and information on Utah's Statewide MIS Project. Register online.
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"The Way Forward" is the theme for the 5th Annual Building Resilience through Public-Private Partnerships Conference, to be held Dec. 10-11, 2015, New Orleans, Louisiana. This event will be presented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in partnership with the National Protection and Programs Directorate, the DHS Private Sector Office, North American Aerospace Command, and U.S. Northern Command. Each year more than 300 participants from the public and private sectors convene to promote innovation in furthering public-private partnerships across the homeland security enterprise. The events of 9/11, Katrina, and the continued threat environment have forged strong public-private partnerships that have enhanced prevention, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation for all-hazards resilience with acknowledgement across the board that there is more to be done. The conference was planned in collaboration with the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN), American Red Cross, Business Executives for National Security, Business Forward, National Incident Management Systems & Advanced Technologies, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Registration is still open. More information is available here.
The Recorder Post
The Department of Fire and Emergency Services has sent eight managers and four volunteer trucks from Perth to help contain the three "out of control" bush fires in North Cascade, Merivale and the Mount Ragged area of Cape Arid National Park. The hot, dry and windy weather in the state resulted in "catastrophic fire conditions."
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Business Standard
A state of emergency was declared in Crimea after transmission towers in the neighboring Ukraine's Kherson region were blown up, causing a blackout.
Crimean authorities rushed to connect hospitals and other vital infrastructure to power stations and generators late Saturday after the four main transmission lines from Ukraine were cut off.
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The Indian Express
The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting that a magnitude 5.9 earthquake has hit northeastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan and Tajikistan. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The earthquake was most strongly felt in Pakistan, a 6.2-magnitude quake shook Karachi and north-western areas of the country though there were no reports of casualties.
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WPVI-TV
What happens to the sand on a beach when an earthquake strikes? A man in a boat in Greece captured the dramatic moment he saw sand get tossed up into a massive dust cloud during an earthquake. Thomas Verykios was fishing off the island of Lefkada, Greece when an earthquake rocked the area.
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Agence France-Presse via Sky News
The death toll from a landslide triggered by flooding in China has risen to 38, with no more missing.
An avalanche of mud and rock caused by torrential rains engulfed 27 homes in Lishui in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
Only one person escaped and more than 2300 rescuers and 60 digging machines were deployed to search for the victims, but their efforts were repeatedly interrupted by rain and at least one more landslide.
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The Weather Channel
Severe thunderstorms tore through parts of northern Argentina and southern Brazil, dumping damaging hail, flooding rain, even spawning a tornado.
Hail up to the size of tennis balls pelted parts of Córdoba and Santa Fe provinces, west and northwest of the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.
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CNN via WDAM-TV
In Brazil, frantic work is underway to reduce the environmental impact from a mudslide that's now spilling into the sea in the state of Espirito Santo.
Nine people were killed and hundreds of people were displaced when two dams burst at an iron ore mine in the state of Minas Gerais. The mud has traveled nearly 500 kilometers, or 310 miles, down the Doce River, reaching the Atlantic Ocean at Espirito Santo state.
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Khaosod
The death toll reached 110 after a landslide hit near a jade mine in northern Myanmar, with up to another 100 still missing, officials said.
"We have recovered about 110 bodies, but according to local people there are still more than 100 people buried," the administrator of Hpakant town, Tint Swe Myint, told DPA by phone.
There was no precise record of how many people were in the area, he said. "Most of them are migrant people searching for small gemstones in the debris left by mining companies."
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