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The special focus issues (October and November 2019) of the IAEM Bulletin, with articles on the 2019 conference theme of “Honor the Past, Treasure the Present, Shape the Future,” are both posted as free sample issues for viewing or download at the top of the IAEM Bulletin web page. Please share this link with your EM colleagues, and invite them to join the International Association of Emergency Managers.
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The IAEM Poster Showcase was a huge success, with numerous participants in both the competitive and non-competitive divisions. The following participants in the competitive division received recognition from IAEM after they presented their poster to a panel of judges:
- GOLD: Roni Fraser, graduate student, The University of Delaware; and Jessica Gottesman and Brandy Stottlemyer, Office of Disability Integration, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
- SILVER: Michael Apollo, undergraduate student, University of Albany; Nate Baird, MSc, emergency preparedness planner, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Kristy Copic, graduate student, Georgetown University; Susan Fisher, emergency preparedness coordinator, lecturer, California State University, Fullerton; Shayna Goldfine, MPH, NRP, graduate student, Tulane University; LT. Amber Larson, Incident Management & Crisis Response Division, U.S. Coast Guard; Eric Marble, graduate student, Jacksonville State University; Wesley McDermott, MSPH, CEM, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Division of Emergency Operations, CDC; and Lucia Velotti, Ph.D., assistant professor, Dept. of Security, Fire and Emergency Management, John Jay College of Criminal Justice;
- BRONZE: Julie Malingowski, meteorologist (emergency response specialist), Regional Operations Center, National Weather Service; and Barbara Payne, MPA, IA information manager/planning manager, FEMA. To view all the participants and their abstracts, visit the conference website. The Poster Showcase Call for Abstracts for the IAEM 2020 Annual Conference will open in spring 2020.”
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The EMvision Talks were held live on Nov. 19 on the plenary stage at the 2019 IAEM Annual Conference. IAEM’s EMvision Talks are modeled on the TED™ Talk format. The Talks, limited to seven minutes, provide a forum for people to share a personal connection to an idea, experience or passion related to emergency management, leadership, communication, community engagement, or other related topics. This year’s speakers were: Marcus Coleman, Jr., MPA, senior associate, HWC, Inc.; Andrew Friend, MA, CEM, EM advisor to the Saudi government; Monte Fronk, tribal public safety responder, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe; Renate Garrison, MPA, CEM, emergency management officer, City of Beaverton, Oregon; Courtney Grey, director of disaster behavioral health, Boston Public Health Commission; Lara Pagano, MA, meteorologist, National Weather Service; Blake Stave, MPA, CEM, program manager, Xcel Energy; and Libby Turner, MA, CEM, federal coordinating officer, Federal Emergency Management Agency. All recordings may be accessed here.
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During this season of giving, make a meaningful donation to the future of our communities with a #GivingTuesday donation to the IAEM Scholarship Program. Your donation will help provide scholarships to students achieving degrees in emergency management, disaster management, and related fields. They will be the future leaders that will help build resilient communities and businesses. Our IAEM #Giving Tuesday campaign portal is open now and will remain open through Dec. 9. Give today!
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Mirage News
Disaster preparation is set to become more inclusive in Queensland, thanks to the launch of new risk reduction resources to help people with disability be prepared for when disasters strike.
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“Store and Forward” capability allows field staff to work offline and ensures data integrity under the most adverse conditions!
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The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is planning to update the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework, NIST Special Publication 800-181. The public is invited to provide input by Jan. 13, 2020, for consideration in the update. More information can be found on the NIST website. The NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework is a reference resource to enable employers in the public and private sectors to align descriptions of the roles, tasks, and relevant knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) included in cybersecurity work. The NICE Framework establishes a taxonomy and common lexicon that describes cybersecurity work and workers irrespective of where or for whom the work is performed. NIST is especially interested in making improvements to the NICE Framework that will encourage and increase adoption, so any input on how to make it more relevant to and usable by employers would be welcome.
Homeland Security Newswire
With blazes raging across the state, smoke impacting the Bay Area and the largest power utility shutting off electricity to avoid ignitions, California is experiencing another devastating fire season.
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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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Emergency Management
Many living here own their homes but don’t have resources to rebuild. Much of the area remains in shambles, a result of damage that exceeds property values, owners who don’t have insurance or federal aid that’s been denied.
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IAEM
This week, FEMA released the 2019 National Preparedness Report, which summarizes the nation's progress toward becoming a more secure and resilient nation. The report presents an overview of the five preparedness mission areas: prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. Findings in the report highlight the nation’s preparedness progress and challenges, and how stakeholders are using preparedness grant funding to invest in preparedness improvements. The report identifies national-level preparedness policy gaps; the impact of federal disaster programs on state, local, tribal and territorial partners; efforts to prepare for catastrophic incidents; and examples that demonstrate progress. Additionally, the report uses the Community Lifelines construct to provide a clearer picture of how the nation’s capabilities are being prioritized to prepare for and respond to threats and hazards.
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Emergency Management
California is famous for its catastrophic earthquakes and wildfires, but they aren't the state’s only natural hazards. The state also has a dozen restive volcanoes that stretch nearly from one end of the state to the other.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released a new set of 48 Core Capability Development sheets updated with standardized targets for the prevention, protection, and mitigation mission areas. Each sheet provides the definition and associated tasks, relevant trainings, example capability targets, typed resources, critical planning partners, validation techniques, and additional organizations that support the development of the specific core capability. The sheets can be used by jurisdictions in their efforts to improve capabilities and close gaps identified in the Stakeholder Preparedness Review or other assessments. To access the FEMA Core Capability Development Sheets, visit the FEMA Technical Assistance Program website.
KTVA-TV
The head of the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management was at the National Guard Armory at Fort Richardson when the earthquake struck on Nov. 30.
Mike Sutton said he was at his desk answering emails when he felt a series of hard jolts.
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Emergency Management
According to the state, more than 10,500 damage claims were filed with the federal government after the magnitude 7.1 quake in November 2018. One official estimates the total state and federal assistance will top $275 million.
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The Conversation
The Santa Ana winds that help drive fall and winter wildfires in California have died down, providing welcome relief for residents. But other ecological factors contribute to fires in ways that scientists are still discovering.
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Route Fifty
After two historic floods in less than two years, officials in Ellicott City, Maryland, are putting their hopes in a long-term rebuilding plan that officials say aims to balance recovery and resiliency with historic preservation.
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Click Orlando
Florida nursing homes and assisted living facilities without emergency power plans and equipment are being put on notice by the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration. The agency will begin rejecting licenses to facilities that have not met the legally required safeguards.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Researchers are using a new modeling approach for infrastructure planning of a long-term electricity grid that considers future climate and water resource conditions. Those conditions include reduced hydropower production as well as reduced availability of cooling water due to reduced streamflow and increased streamflow temperature.
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Homeland Security News Wire
In the U.K., climate change is being tackled by taking baby steps. Andreas Busch writes that this is unfortunate, because “The world already has effective engineering solutions to manage climate change and to limit global temperatures from rising above 1.5°C – a target set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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Route Fifty
Floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States and with climate change the risk of rising waters makes both inland and coastal communities vulnerable.
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Reuters
The number of people at risk of being forced from their homes by river flooding could surge to as many as 50 million a year by the end of the century if governments do not step up action to tackle climate change, researchers warned on Tuesday.
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Global News
A new report has found that as many as 20 million people are displaced by climate-fueled disasters every year — a figure that equates to one person being forced out of their homes every two seconds.
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Homeland Security Today
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers studies the potential costs and benefits of flood risk management projects—such as levees, floodwalls, or building relocation—to inform decision makers about their potential economic effects.
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Homeland Security News Wire
The year 2019 concludes a decade of exceptional global heat, retreating ice and record sea levels driven by greenhouse gases from human activities. Average temperatures for the five-year (2015-2019) and ten-year (2010-2019) periods are almost certain to be the highest on record. 2019 is on course to be the second or third warmest year on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
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IAEM
The Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI), a joint collaborative effort of the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement partners, offers a standardized process for identifying and reporting suspicious activity in jurisdictions across the United States, and additionally serves as the unified focal point for sharing SAR information. A new online training program, “SAR Fundamentals and Processes eLearning Training,” which has been released to replace earlier in-person training, will include: SAR overview, SAR process, vetting a SAR, and interacting with the FBI eGuardian system. This course is accessible via the “My Trainings” tab at https://learn.dhs.gov/. Users must have access to HSIN-Intel in order to access the training. To request access to HSIN-Intel, email your name, affiliated organization, email address, phone number, and a short justification to HSIN.Intel.PMO@hq.dhs.gov. In addition to the recently released SAR Fundamentals and Processes training, the NSI website hosts additional resources and online SAR training available for law enforcement, hometown security partners, emergency managers, and others to help prevent terrorism and other criminal activity.
Domestic Preparedness
Understanding history is a critical component of emergency preparedness, response, and resilience. History has a way of exposing preparedness and response gaps and providing a roadmap for best practices going forward. Unfortunately, when not examined and taken into consideration, history tends to repeat itself.
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Phys.org
The United Nations recommends governments ensure no one gets left behind before, during and after a disaster. This includes people with disabilities. Disasters are a leading cause of disability worldwide. Evidence shows people with disabilities are up to four times more likely to die in a disaster than the general population.
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Domestic Preparedness
In 1850 – nine years before the Carrington Event and 12 years before the Civil War – the population of the United States was 23 million people. At the end of 2018, the population of the U.S. had reached 328 million people.
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Homeland Security News Wire
About 70 percent of Earth’s surface lies under the sea, which means that, until now, most of the Earth’s surface had been largely without early-warning seismic detection stations. Scientists say that fiber-optic cables that constitute a global undersea telecommunications network could one day help in studying offshore earthquakes.
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Emergency Management
Although more than 9,800 U.S. agencies are on board with the nationwide public safety communications platform FirstNet, a debate persists about the very issue that FirstNet is designed to solve: interoperability.
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Fire Engineering
B. Don Russell wasn’t thinking about preventing a wildfire when he developed a tool to detect power line problems before blackouts and bigger disasters. The electrical engineering professor at Texas A&M University figured he might save a life if his creation could prevent someone from being electrocuted by a downed live wire.
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Republic World
Facebook's 'Crisis Response' feature allows users to find information about recent crises and use 'Safety Check' to connect with your friends and loved ones in the state of a crisis or natural calamity.
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IAEM
Candidates due to recertify in 2019 should submit their application by 11:59 p.m. EST on Dec. 31, 2019. Keep in mind that the recertification fee must be applied to the candidate’s account before submitting the application. Payments made online are processed the next business day, so plan accordingly.
IAEM
As a result of the P25 Executive Summit held in May 2018 in Portland, OR, the Project 25 Steering Committee established the Requirements and Priorities Working Group to develop a prioritized list of user challenges to be addressed through the P25 standards, increased user awareness, and/or manufacturer implementation. The working group spent the past year developing the requirements list and is requesting feedback from as many federal, state, and local public safety agencies as possible. The Project 25 Technology Interest Group (PTIG) is collecting user feedback through the survey and will send results to the Project 25 Steering Committee to develop educational materials for users, establish new or update existing P25 Standards, or request manufacturer or user implementation changes. Take the survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/p25requirementsandpriorities.
IAEM
The Broward County, Florida, Education and Outreach Mitigation Subcommittee is seeking practices regarding hazards and mitigation outreach programs. In order to learn more about what other states, counties, cities, towns, NGOs, and others are doing to increase their communities’ education and outreach on all aspects of hazard mitigation, they seek input and additional comments. Please assist the subcommittee with their project by completing a short survey.
IAEM
There is still time to participate in today’s National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries webinar to inform potential applicants on the Coastal and Marine Restoration Grants funding opportunity, at 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST, Dec. 5, 2019. Participants will: learn about funding priorities and the application process; receive tips for submitting competitive proposals; and have the opportunity to ask questions. On Nov. 8, NOAA announced the availability of $4 million in 2020 to institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, commercial organizations, and governments of U.S. territories, states, and local municipalities, as well as Native American tribal governments, to implement habitat restoration actions that will restore coastal ecosystems. Restoration includes activities that return
degraded or altered marine, estuarine, coastal, and freshwater migratory fish habitat to functioning conditions, and techniques that return NOAA trust species to their historic habitats. Information on joining the webinar is online here.
IAEM
The American Red Cross National Capital Region will hold its Second Disaster Preparedness Summit: “Disaster Risks, Response and Readiness,” in the National Capital Region on Jan. 28, 2020, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. An expected attendance of more than 700 government, corporate and nonprofit emergency professionals will hear from leaders in the field about the impacts that a significant disaster would have on our regional infrastructure and critical systems. Learn more here, and register online here.
IAEM
Today, Dec. 5, 2019, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST, the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Safe and Supportive Schools (OSSS), and its Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical (REMS TA) Center is presenting a webinar to provide an overview of The Role of Districts in Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans (the District Guide). The District Guide serves as a companion to the Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans (School Guide) and provides information that can assist school districts in fulfilling both their individual and shared emergency planning responsibilities in all-hazards and all-threats school emergency operations plan (EOP) development. Core planning teams within school districts can use this new resource to inform the development of local policies and procedures related to school EOP development. The webinar will include video features and highlights from these presenters: Madeline Sullivan, OSSS, ED; Bronwyn Roberts, REMS TA Center; and Janelle W. Hughes, REMS TA Center. To join the webinar, register here.
Women of China
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has underscored efforts to further modernize the system and capability of China's emergency management by giving full play to the system's features and advantages.
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Greek Reporter
The director of Greece’s General Secretariat for Civil Protection, Phoebos Theodorou, presented two new comprehensive government plans for addressing floods and wildfires in the country on Monday.
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The Architect's Newspaper
For centuries, tourists have flocked to the Italian city of Venice for its fragile beauty and water features. In the last hundred years, however, those elements have become increasingly threatened by rising waters attributable to climate change.
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Phys.org
Richard L. Wood, a University of Nebraska–Lincoln civil engineering assistant professor who specializes in disaster damage, has turned his expertise toward the Bahamas in an effort to understand why some buildings survived Hurricane Dorian's onslaught in early September.
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Reuters
Albania ended its search on Saturday for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed 51 people, and buried more victims of the disaster including toddler twins and their mother.
The 6.4-magnitude quake, the country's worst ever, struck on Tuesday, centred 30 km west of the capital Tirana.
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Reuters
A typhoon struck the Philippines on Tuesday, killing at least three people, disrupting air travel and forcing government offices and schools to shut.
Authorities evacuated some 225,000 people ahead of the arrival overnight of Typhoon Kammuri, known locally as Tisoy.
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Egypt Today
Civil protection forces on Sunday managed to retrieve three bodies from the rubble of a collapsed wall inside an ancient monastery in Upper Egypt's Minya.
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The Epoch Times
Three emergency workers were killed overnight when their helicopter crashed while on a rescue mission in southeastern France, while two other people died in heavy flooding that has hit the region, officials said on Dec. 2.
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Xinhuanet
Over 16,000 people have been displaced by flooding in Malaysia's easter states of Terengganu and Kelantan, the Malaysian Department of Social Welfare said on Tuesday.
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The Weather Channel
Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall have killed at least 250 people in recent months in East Africa, adding to a weather-fueled crisis that has impacted some 2.5 million people in the region.
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