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IAEM
FEMA and partners, including IAEM, released the PrepTalk “Let the Community Lead: Rethinking Command and Control Systems.” In this PrepTalk, Aaron Titus challenges emergency managers to acknowledge the limitations of command and control systems and to rethink how we interact with the community. Titus is the author of How to Prepare for Everything and the president of the Mountain West National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, which spans 12 states in the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, Dakotas and Alaska. His PrepTalk video, an accompanying American Sign Language video, and additional resources are available on the FEMA Website.
IAEM
Printable certificates of attendance from the IAEM 67th Annual conference are available on the IAEM Conference website. Do you need a receipt or copy of your invoice from the Conference? Click here to obtain a copy for your records or to make a payment. All speakers’ slide presentations submitted to IAEM are located on the web-based version of the conference app under each individual session. Find the session, and click on the “Presentation” link in each individual session description.
IAEM
The call for speakers for breakout sessions at the IAEM 68th Annual Conference & EMEX in Long Beach, California, Nov. 13-18, 2020, will be opening in mid-January 2020. More information will be posted soon on the conference website.
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BBC News
Sydney residents are facing the city's toughest water restrictions in more than a decade amid a severe drought and deadly bushfires in eastern Australia.
On Tuesday, level two restrictions were enacted in the capital of New South Wales (NSW), a state 99.9% in drought.
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The Guardian
Australia needs a national summit to address how the country should prepare for and resource bushfire emergencies in a changed climate, former emergency leaders say. It comes after the prime minister, Scott Morrison, rejected calls on Tuesday for additional help for volunteers who have been fighting fires and assisting fire-affected communities in New South Wales and Queensland for weeks.
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Homeland Security Today
Two of North America’s most fearsome earthquake zones could be linked.
A controversial study argues that at least eight times in the past 3,000 years, quakes made a one–two punch off the west coast of the United States.
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Homeland Security News Wire
White Island is one of several volcanoes in New Zealand that can produce sudden explosive eruptions at any time. In this case, magma is shallow, and the heat and gases affect surface and ground water to form vigorous hydrothermal systems. In these, water is trapped in pores of rocks in a super-heated state.
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Everbridge
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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Homeland Security News Wire
More than one million people have died in the 1,800 magnitude 5+ earthquakes recorded worldwide since 2000. Bridges are the most vulnerable parts of a transport network when earthquakes occur, obstructing emergency response, search and rescue missions and aid delivery, increasing potential fatalities.
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Emergency Management
The Green River Area Development District has been selected to be the pilot for a state and federal project, where regional agencies will identify vulnerabilities to critical infrastructure such as water utilities, power companies, communications and transportation.
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Campus Safety
Safety and security continue to be major concerns for hospital, K-12 and university campuses, consequently leading to increased scrutiny and some serious crackdown on mistakes that could be detrimental to student, patient or staff safety.
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Star Tribune
In the wake of recent school shootings — in Wisconsin and California — Minnesota parents are anxious to know what their children's schools are doing to make sure students are prepared in the event of an active shooter.
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Noozhawk
Howling wind drives torrential rain sideways as tall, slender palms bow and tree limbs snap. A hurricane approaches, its gale-force winds wreaking havoc as it nears the coast. Storm surges combine with the downpour, inundating the area with water.
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Thomas Net
Scholars still mourn the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria, burned to the ground by Julius Caesar’s forces in 48 BC. Up to half a million scrolls were incinerated, including works by Homer, Plato, and Socrates.
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Weather Nation
Scientists for years have speculated about the powerful hurricane winds that blast just above the surface of the ocean near the eyewall of the storm. These winds, often the most intense in the storm, play a critical role in lifting energy and moisture from the warm ocean waters into the atmosphere, influencing the intensity and path of the hurricane.
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Homeland Security News Wire
How can you tell when a storm is going to produce a tornado even before the twister forms? Research indicates that prior to tornado formation, storms emit low-frequency sounds.
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Government Technology
What should you do if someone is operating a drone near you? Where should you move? Should you be a certain number of feet away from the machine?
These are the sort of questions that police, firefighters and other stakeholders hope to clarify as part of the Major Cities Working Group, a new initiative from the DRONERESPONDERS program.
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Cordis
First responders participating in a Design Thinking workshop organized by the ResponDrone Project have indicated that they would like to use drones to gather and distribute crucial information and provide communication networks in disaster areas.
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Eos
An app released by a research team at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory could someday provide early earthquake warnings around the globe, upending the traditional way of monitoring earthquakes worldwide.
The app, MyShake, monitors the movement of cell phones and records shaking when earthquake-like motion occurs. If many phones within an area trigger at once, the app detects an earthquake.
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IAEM
IAEM will be releasing a new version of all certification exams in early 2020. Individuals planning to take the IAEM certification exam after Jan. 20, 2020, should access the revised study guide from the IAEM certification website and review the updated resource list(s) to prepare for the exam. All exams must be supervised by an approved proctor. Information about proctors can be found on page five of the study guide.
New York Post
Critics of a huge underwater barrier system being built to protect Venice from flooding pooh-poohed recent tests of the project, which has been plagued by corruption and cost overruns.
The consortium overseeing the project, which includes 78 barriers weighing 10 tons each, said their latest tests of the system dubbed “Moses” were successful.
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Relief Web
The World Bank will provide advisory services to support the Government of Bulgaria — through the Ministry of Interior to increase efficiency of the national disaster risk management system. A contract for the provision of Reimbursable Advisory Services was signed today by Mladen Marinov, Minister of Interior, and Fabrizio Zarcone, World Bank Country Manager for Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Surface water flooding is what happens in built-up areas when heavy rainfall has nowhere to go. Unable to enter a watercourse or drainage system, the water instead flows over the ground causing flash flooding.
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The Associated Press via Denton Daily
Torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 27 people, mostly children at a school, officials said Saturday.
A flash flood with mud and debris from landslides struck Mandailing Natal district in North Sumatra province and smashed an Islamic school in Muara Saladi village, where 29 children were swept away on Friday afternoon, said local police chief Irsan Sinuhaji.
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Relief Web
Belize is home to an abundance of wildlife and scenic landscapes and draws thousands of visitors each year to its marine sanctuaries, tropical rain forests, and archeological sites.
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The Guardian
Dozens of fires will burn across Australia for weeks, fire authorities say, including a “mega-fire”, already the size of greater Sydney, that is too big to put out.
At 6am on Sunday there were 96 bush and grass fires in NSW - 47 of which were not contained. Five fires are at a watch and act level.
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The Weather Channel
At least two people are dead and three others missing after Cyclone Belna hit northwestern Madagascar Monday with high winds and torrential rain.
Some 1,400 people in the coastal town of Soalala were left homeless by the storm, which damaged 80% of the town's homes and government offices, The Associated Press reported. Many roads were also damaged.
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7News
Less than a day after the volcanic eruption on White Island off New Zealand's north coast, there's been a "strong" magnitude 5.3 earthquake near Gisborne on country's North Island.
The shallow quake struck just before 1 pm local time, according to information from national geological hazard monitoring system Geonet.
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9News
Close to 1000 people are believed to be stranded in New Zealand after severe storms caused flooding and landslides on the country's South and North Island over the weekend.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Five people were confirmed dead and eighteen others injured, with many more missing, after a volcano erupted on Monday afternoon while dozens of cruise ship passengers were exploring White Island, a small, picturesque, uninhabited island of the coast of New Zealand.
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BBC News
Flooding in Uganda has claimed at least 16 lives, the Red Cross says, as the region reels from weeks of rain.
Rescuers have been recovering the bodies of victims swept to their deaths by the flash floods in the western Bundibugyo area, the aid group said.
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Standard Media
It is a chilly afternoon at a camp set up following the catastrophic landslides that rocked West Pokot two weeks ago. Chebokamoi Loiwena is in deep thought, still reeling in grief from the loss of her three children.
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