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.ANNUAL CONFERENCE NEWS
IAEM Reimagined Annual Conference now available on-demand
IAEM
More than 1,500 emergency managers from around the world participated in the IAEM Reimagined Virtual Conference, and registration for on-demand access is now open for those who didn’t register in advance. Don’t miss the opportunity to explore more than 40 hours of educational sessions at the bargain price of just $199 for individuals (members and non-members) and $99 for student members. Content will be available until Feb. 16, 2021, and you will be able to claim contact hours for credit towards IAEM’s Certified Emergency Manager Program. Included on-demand are all breakout sessions, plenary speakers, and EMvision Talks. Also included are video overviews of the latest EM products and services in the EMEX Virtual Hall, 26 poster presentations representing significant insight from peers, and the 2020 Yearbook of Honors. Check out the conference program here, and register for on-demand access here.
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IAEM thanks the sponsors of the IAEM Reimagined Virtual Conference
IAEM
IAEM is grateful for the support of our sponsors for the IAEM Reimagined Conference. Thank you to: AECOM; Esri; Blackberry; Deloitte; Everbridge; FirstNet; Juvare; Experience Grand Rapids; The Martinet Group, LLC; Catalyst Technologies; Witt O’Briens; Acela, Inc.; AppArmor; Association of State Dam Safety Officials; BOLDplanning, Inc.; Cadmus Group; CSULB – College of Professional and International Education; DisasterTech; DTN; Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education; Integrated Solutions Consulting; Millersville University; Penn State World Campus; and Veoci.
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.IAEM SCHOLARSHIP
Learn a new language, while contributing to IAEM scholarships — LingQ and IAEM have partnered to bring you this flash sale ending on Dec. 8
IAEM
When you long to travel abroad and fantasize about vacations after COVID, you may wish that you knew the language of the country that is your dream destination. We have a prime opportunity for you to begin learning that language now, but you have act quickly. The IAEM Scholarship Program and LingQ are holding a flash sale that ends on Dec. 8. Begin your one-year premium LingQ membership at the 50% off rate of $55. For each LingQ sale, the IAEM Scholarship Program will receive $38. You will receive: access to lessons for 25 languages on web and mobile; thousands of hours of audio with transcript; full text translation and notes; unlimited vocabulary; unlimited imported lessons; SRS vocabulary review tools; additional activities; and enhanced statistics. Also, you can download lesson audio, print/edit lessons, track your learning activity; sync lesson progress and playlists across devices; and access lessons online. You have one year from purchase to redeem this offer. You won’t be learning alone, as your LingQ membership makes you part of a global language-learning community. You can join live conversations or participate in LingQ’s language forums and blogs. Go to the IAEM Scholarship LingQ Flash Sale page at https://iaemscholarships.travelpledge.com/flashsale, find out more, and start learning a new language through interactive courses that are fast, fun and effective.
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Support the IAEM Scholarship Program through holiday or regular shopping
IAEM
As you shop online during the holiday season or for your daily needs, maximize your donations to the IAEM Scholarship Program. There are two ways to shop online and have donations made to the program without paying an extra dime. Amazon offers a special program for donations. Simply shop at smile.amazon.com/ch/31-6050147 or with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon Shopping app and AmazonSmile donates 0.5% of eligible purchases to the IAEM Scholarship Program. The iGive network has more than 2,300 online stores, including many popular sites you already patronize, that give a portion of the money you spend to the IAEM Scholarship Program. To get started, just create your iGive account at www.iGive.com/iaemscholarship, and be sure to add the iGive button to your browser to alert you when you visit a participating site. Shopping is a necessity and for many it is fun. Please take a few seconds to turn your online shopping into an easy and continuing gift that will help IAEM support the future of emergency management by providing scholarships to deserving students.
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.IAEM-CANADA COUNCIL NEWS
Government of Canada announces extension of travel restrictions
Philippine Canadian Inquirer
Protecting Canadians from COVID-19 and reducing the spread of the disease in Canada is the Government of Canada’s top priority. In March, 2020, the Government introduced several measures, including prohibitions and restrictions on discretionary and optional travel from the United States (US) and all other countries, to minimize the introduction and spread of COVID-19 and protect the health and safety of Canadians.
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.IAEM-OCEANIA COUNCIL NEWS
Preparing for unexpected — Knowing when, where, and impact of tropical cyclones
Mirage
With the return of La Niña to Australia, it’s more important than ever for emergency managers and communities to be better prepared for severe weather.
The 2020 Tropical Cyclone Outlook, recently issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, indicates that as we enter a La Nina weather cycle this season Australia can expect to have more tropical cyclone events compared to previous years.
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.IAEM-USA COUNCIL NEWS
FEMA seeks feedback on Emergency Operations Center documents
IAEM
FEMA’s National Integration Center is seeking public feedback on two Emergency Operations Center (EOC) toolkit documents. The national engagement period will conclude at 5:00 p.m. EST on Jan. 5, 2021. The two EOC toolkit documents, EOC How to Quick Reference Guide and EOC References and Tools, are a collection of guidance and best practices for emergency management, specifically EOC communities. The National Integration Center is hosting a series of three 60-minute webinars to discuss the two EOC toolkit documents and answer related questions. All stakeholder webinars are open to the whole community. Each webinar will cover the same information. Advance registration is required due to space limitations. To register, click on your preferred webinar session from the list below:
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US lands lost in severe wildfires rising over decades
Reuters
The yearly land area burned by severe wildfires in the western United States has grown eight times larger in less than four decades, researchers said on Monday, warning that higher temperatures and drier conditions are threatening irreparable forest loss.
Some 210,000 acres burned in 2017, up from 26,000 acres in 1985, in high severity fires that kill more than 95% of trees in their path, according to a study by the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, a government organization.
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GAO: Urgent pandemic response actions needed
Homeland Security Today
With the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths rising exponentially, it is no surprise that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is calling for urgent action. The pandemic is not going to take a rest for the holidays, nor will it wait for a new administration. The message is clear: Act now.
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Plan released to reduce massive wildfires in US West
The Associated Press via OPB
U.S. officials on Friday released an overarching plan for removing or changing vegetation over a huge swath of the U.S. West to stop devastating wildfires on land used for cattle ranching, recreation and habitat for imperiled sage grouse.
The plan released by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management aims to limit wildfires in a 350,000-square-mile area of mainly sagebrush habitat that includes parts of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Utah.
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.EM NEWS
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was a record-smasher
Route Fifty
It was clear before the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season started that it was going to be busy. Six months later, we’re looking back at a trail of broken records, and the storms may still not be over even with the season’s official end on Nov. 30.
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.UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE/SCHOOL EM ISSUES
Aggressive testing at university cuts COVID rate to near zero
Emergency Management
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently completed its in-person fall semester. And as the nation watches the COVID-19 virus surge, the school continues the virus testing program that has worked so well since it began in August.
The COVID-19 positivity rate for the entire student body and faculty for the past seven days was 0.45 percent.
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.HEALTHCARE EM UPDATE
US panel: 1st vaccines to health care workers, nursing homes*
The Associated Press
Health care workers and nursing home residents should be at the front of the line when the first coronavirus vaccine shots become available, an influential government advisory panel said Tuesday.
The panel voted 13-1 to recommend those groups get priority in the first days of any coming vaccination program, when doses are expected to be very limited.
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'Very dark couple of weeks': Morgues and hospitals overflow*
The Associated Press
Nearly 37,000 Americans died of COVID-19 in November, the most in any month since the dark early days of the pandemic, engulfing families in grief, filling newspaper obituary pages and testing the capacity of morgues, funeral homes and hospitals.
Amid the resurgence, states have begun reopening field hospitals to handle an influx of patients that is pushing health care systems — and their workers — to the breaking point.
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One state urges weekly COVID testing for hospital workers
Route Fifty
After months of complaints from health care workers about insufficient protections during the coronavirus pandemic, the California Department of Public Health last week strengthened its Covid testing guidelines to spell out that hospitals should begin testing employees weekly.
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Hospitals brace for COVID-19 surge
The Hill
Hospitals are facing rising pressure from a surge of coronavirus cases that is threatening to overwhelm their capacity, as the country braces for further escalation following Thanksgiving.
Over 93,000 people are in the hospital with coronavirus, a record level, and the number is only continuing to rise, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project.
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.CLIMATE/WATER/WEATHER UPDATES
Where will the next big flood hit?
The Atlantic
Christina Laughlin usually does whatever she can to avoid the flooding that plagues her neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia, on the Chesapeake Bay. But on a blustery Sunday morning in October 2019, she donned a windbreaker and rain boots, grabbed her battered smartphone, and deliberately headed straight to the high-water line.
Along with her, hundreds of other locals were out and about that day, busy taking photos of the water and linking them to GPS markers during the year’s highest astronomical tide, known as the “king tide.”
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.EM RESOURCES
DHS announces Wednesday Webinar series on recently released pandemics collection and collection support primers
IAEM
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) released the Pandemics Collection Primer and the Collection Support Primer (CSP), which are available via HSIN-Intel. The primers are designed to assist state and local partners in quickly identifying topics where they have unique access, and to then share related information for consumption in the intelligence cycle for analysis. I&A is coordinating a weekly Wednesday Webinar series with the subject matter experts and collection managers who will review the CSPs and respond to state and local partner questions. This webinar series presents an opportunity to receive an overview briefing on each CSP, ask questions, and foster a dialogue. The Wednesday Webinars are accessible via Adobe Connect and teleconference. To ensure that attendees can be tracked and to preserve content security, DHS I&A requires registrants to enter their full name and organization affiliation upon entering the Adobe Connect site to be approved for access to the session. The first webinar will be held on Dec. 9 at 2:00 p.m. EST. Access the webinar here.
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New manual issued on COVID-19 testing and cross border risk
Homeland Security Today
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has issued its new Testing and Cross-border Risk Management Measures Manual, developed by members of the CAPSCA group it established in 2009 for the prevention and management of public health events in civil aviation.
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.NEW INSIGHTS
Think recovery, not just re-entry, for post-pandemic future
Domestic Preparedness
Ten years ago, a team of representatives from King and Pierce counties, cities of Seattle and Bellevue, Joint Base Lewis McChord, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory set forth on developing the Regional Recovery Framework for a Biological Attack in the Seattle Urban Area. A collaboration of the Seattle Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) partners and military and federal agencies, the framework was specific to a hypothetical catastrophic, wide‐area biological attack using weaponized anthrax in the Seattle urban area but was designed to be flexible and scalable to serve as the recovery framework for other chemical or biological incidents.
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.IAEM MEMBER NEWS
Sue Henry selected as new chief of Calgary Emergency Management Agency*
CBC
Calgary Emergency Management Agency deputy Chief Sue Henry has been chosen to replace the outgoing head of the organization.
Henry's current boss, CEMA chief Tom Sampson, announced last month that he would leave the post after 35 years of service with the city.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi hailed the selection of Henry as Sampson's successor as the best possible choice after a search process that drew distinguished applicants from all over the world.
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.IAEM-ASIA NEWS
ASEAN adopts New Disaster Management Framework for 2021-2025*
ASEAN via ReliefWeb
ASEAN Ministers in charge of disaster management agreed on the strategic direction of regional cooperation in mitigating disaster losses and responding to disaster emergencies for the next five years. On 27 November, they adopted the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) Work Programme 2021-2025.
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.IAEM-EUROPA NEWS
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine available across UK next week
Homeland Security Today
The British government has on December 2 accepted the recommendation from the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to approve Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for use. This follows months of rigorous clinical trials and a thorough analysis of the data by experts at the MHRA who have concluded that the vaccine has met its strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness.
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.IAEM-JAPAN NEWS
Japan launches data relay satellite to improve disaster response
Kyodo News
Japan launched a rocket carrying two satellites, including one operated by the government, to relay data collected by reconnaissance satellites already in orbit, enabling faster and more information-rich communication when responding to natural disasters.
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.AROUND THE WORLD
Fraser Island, a unique Australian ecosystem, is on fire as parts of the country swelter through record heat wave
CNN
Firefighters in Australia are battling a massive bushfire that has been burning out of control for six weeks across the popular tourist spot of Fraser Island as parts of the country's east swelter through a record-breaking heat wave following the hottest November on record.
Tourists and staff on the UNESCO World Heritage site have been forced to evacuate as the fire closes in on local attractions, and the island's unique forests are smothered in smoke.
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Devastating flooding in Italy's Sardinia leaves at least 3 dead
CGTN
At least three people have been killed by flooding after two days of heavy rain hit the Italian island of Sardinia, with two more people still missing on Sunday evening.
The victims died on Saturday and were all from the town of Bitti in eastern Sardinia, where the flood turned the streets into a deadly river of mud that dragged away cars in its fury and swallowed the lower floors of the town's houses.
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Thousands evacuated as Indonesia volcano erupts
TRT World
Thousands of people have fled the scene of a rumbling Indonesian volcano that burst to life for the first time in several years, belching a massive column of smoke and ash.
The disaster agency said on Monday the evacuation of more than 4,400 residents came as Mount Ili Lewotolok erupted on Sunday, spouting a thick tower of debris four kilometers into the sky, triggering a flight warning and the closure of a local airport.
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