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The call for speakers for breakout sessions at the IAEM 68th Annual Conference & EMEX in Long Beach, California, Nov. 13-18, 2020, will open in mid-January 2020. More information will be posted soon at https://iaemconference.info..
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As you shop online during the holiday season, maximize your donations to the IAEM Scholarship Program by joining iGive.com, and enjoy free, easy fundraising for a good cause. It’s simple – visit http://www.iGive.com/iaemscholarship, sign up as a supporter of the IAEM Scholarship Program, and begin your holiday shopping. Every time you shop at any of the 2,300+ online stores in the iGive network, a portion of the money you spend benefits IAEM Scholarship Program. It's a free service, and you'll never pay more when you reach a store through iGive. In fact, smart shoppers will enjoy iGive's repository of coupons, free shipping deals, and sales. Support the future of emergency management through your donations, and learn more at www.iaem.org/Other-Ways-to-Give.
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Last week, members of FEMA's National Advisory Council presented a report to Acting Administrator Pete Gaynor outlining actions the agency can take to address key issues facing the field of emergency management. In December 2018, former Administrator Brock Long charged the council with reviewing four issues: financial preparedness, closing the insurance gap, increasing codes and standards use, and the Building Resilient Infrastructure in Communities grant program. The council also took on additional issues facing marginalized, tribal, rural and small communities, as well as more immediate issues for FEMA to address. The council passed 31 recommendations, identified in the “November 2019 Report to the Administrator” to include input from a broad range of stakeholders including community partners and experts in insurance and risk as well as mitigation and finance. FEMA is working to address several of recommendations in the report.
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FEMA has released, for stakeholder feedback, drafts of six Job Titles/Position Qualifications and Resource Typing Definitions documents related to Post-Building Safety that enhance interoperability and the effectiveness of mutual aid. The release includes:
- Post-Disaster Building Safety Evaluation Team;
- Post-Disaster Building Safety Evaluator;
- Post-Disaster Building Safety Evaluation Strike Team Leader;
- Post-Disaster Building Safety Evaluation Team Technical Supervisor;
- Post-Disaster Complex Structural Condition Evaluator; and
- Post-Disaster Complex Architectural Systems Condition Evaluator.
The National Engagement period for the Post-Disaster Building Safety documents concludes at 5 p.m. EST on Jan. 17, 2020, providing an opportunity for interested parties to comment on newly developed supporting tools. Access the documents on the FEMA website.
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FEMA has released the Ready Campaign's 2020 Preparedness Calendar, which is a critical component of FEMA’s commitment to building a culture of preparedness since informed, alert communities enhance national safety and resilience. The Ready Preparedness Calendar identifies preparedness activities and associated educational materials and toolkits; promotes the resources necessary for stakeholders to customize emergency preparedness campaigns and messaging to raise awareness; and provides tips for emergency preparedness. As Ready partners play a critical role in increasing awareness by spreading the word about emergency preparedness, please download and share the calendar.
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Bloomberg
The smoke blanketing Sydney is a “public health emergency,” according to a coalition of Australian doctors and researchers who say climate change has helped fuel the wildfires that have produced unprecedented haze.
Air pollution across Australia’s most-populous city and parts of the eastern state of New South Wales have reached levels as much as 11 times higher than the threshold for “hazardous,” the group said.
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The Conversation
Calls are growing for a national bushfire plan, including from former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who says they are an issue of national security and the federal government must provide hands-on leadership. It’s true that more people are living in high-risk bushfire areas, emergency services are stretched and the climate is rapidly changing.
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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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Emergency Management
The field of emergency management has evolved quite a bit in the last several years, including the way hiring is done. It is now almost imperative to have a college degree, along with some kind of experience to get a foot in the door, and online degrees are a part of that equation.
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Denton Daily
Natural disaster researchers believe the Cumbre Vieja volcano, near tourist hotspot Tenerife, could be close to erupting and thus triggering a deadly tsunami.
In the event of an eruption, a massive tidal wave could be created by landslides smashing into the Atlantic Ocean after breaking away from the island of La Palma.
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CNBC-TV18
Even as COP 25 concluded its vigorous debate on Climate Emergency in Madrid this week, its findings are, perhaps, more significant for India than any other country on planet earth.
There is a good reason to reach that conclusion. In 2018, India suffered the maximum number of deaths — 2,081 — from climate-triggered extreme weather events.
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Emergency Management
With miles of pipelines underground and crude oil storage tanks dotting the Permian Basin landscape, knowing how to react in case of disaster is critical for area first responders.
That’s why ExxonMobil is teaming up with the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) to provide a hazardous liquids emergency response training course for firefighters.
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IAEM
FEMA this week released the “National Incident Management System National Qualification System Supplemental Guide for Coaches and Evaluators.” This document provides processes, procedures, and tools to assist authorities having jurisdiction develop and maintain coaching and evaluating programs as part of the overall qualification process. The guide is available on FEMA’s website.
Government Technology
The high-rise towers that served as landmarks of this city are mostly gone. Blocks where historic brick buildings once stood are now vacant. At the city's center, Christ Church Cathedral remains in ruins.
The workday bustle in one of New Zealand's leading commercial centers, abandoned by many employers, has slowed. A once-steady stream of tourists dramatically slimmed.
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USA Today
Questions linger in the wake of the recent volcanic eruption on White Island, a New Zealand tourist island, that killed 16 people and left 26 with severe burns.
For example: Why were tourists on the island in the first place?
GeoNet, which tracks New Zealand's seismic and volcanic activity, raised its alert level on the island in November after increasing sulfur dioxide gas.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011, the Japanese authorities decided to carry out major decontamination works in the affected area, which covers more than 9,000 km2. The European Geosciences Union has published a collection of studies providing an overview of the decontamination strategies used and their effectiveness.
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Denton Daily
The death toll following the tsunami caused by the Anak Krakatau volcano has risen to at least 373, Indonesia‘s disaster mitigation agency says.
Saturday saw giant waves crash into coastal towns on the islands of Sumatra and Java.
It is thought that volcanic activity set off undersea landslides which in turn generated the killer waves.
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Stock Dish Daily
Twitter and other social media tools are commonly used around the world. Now, many government and not-for-profit organizations have a presence on at least one of these systems and use them in various ways to share information about their activities and engage with people.
For organizations that work in and emergency situations, these tools can also be used to coordinate activities, help raise funds and disseminate timely news that can help in relief efforts.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Exercise Program (NEP) will hold two 60-minute webinars to inform the whole community about the benefits of being a part of the NEP and how to nominate an exercise for 2020. NEP provides free assistance to state, local, tribal, territorial partners, nonprofits and the private sector with exercise design, development, conduction, and evaluation. Findings from whole community exercises are used to directly inform national preparedness efforts to include in the National Preparedness Report. The NEP overview webinars will be offered on Jan. 8, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. EST and on Jan. 17, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. EST. They can be accessed online via Adobe Connect, or by phone at 800-320-4330, passcode 559550. To learn more about the NEP, nomination process, Principals’ Strategic Priorities (PSPs), and other useful information, go to https://fema.gov/nep or direct any questions to NEP@fema.dhs.gov.
IAEM
IAEM is 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 5 of the study guide.
ReliefWeb
The Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF), the country’s major private sector vehicle and coordinator for disaster risk reduction and management, recently highlighted private sector response efforts and contributions to disaster resilience in 2019 and reaffirmed the role of the private sector in working with the government in responding to emergencies around the country and preparing for future crises during its annual meeting.
Express.co.uk
Rising sea levels will leave parts of the U.K. underwater if the world does not urgently act on climate change now, a polar scientist has told Express.co.uk.
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Ekathimerini
Fatalities resulting from flash floods are on the rise in Greece, according to a new survey which points to an increase in annual deaths from flood-related deaths as well as in the average number of deaths per event.
A total of 156 deaths were associated with 56 flash floods between 1980 and 2018, an average of 2.8 deaths per flash flood.
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Euro News
In Albania, nine people have been arrested in connection with the deaths of 51 people in an earthquake last month.
Prosecutors issued 17 warrants in total, on charges including murder and abuse of office.
An investigation after the 6.4-magnitude quake that toppled dozens of buildings found that builders, engineers and owners had failed to comply with standards of safe construction.
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QVC
Twelve international organizations are set to assist developing countries to build resilience against the impact of natural disasters caused by extreme weather.
Following a series of deadly weather events that have caused widespread destruction, especially in Africa, the institutions came together at the COP 25 climate change conference in Madrid on Tuesday to launch the Alliance for Hydromet Development.
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USA Today
Emergency personnel across parts of the Deep South were searching for survivors Tuesday after storms and dozens of suspected tornadoes raced through the region, killing at least four people, tearing through homes and businesses and toppling trees and power lines.
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PhilStar
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in a bulletin issued Monday morning confirmed numerous casualties along with significant structural damage in the wake of the magnitude 6.9 quake that shook southern Mindanao on Sunday.
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Stock Daily Dish
Gathered along the edge of a mountain, the men, women and children of Barbablanca watched in stunned silence as a river of mud washed over their small village.
The mud slid into windows, covering carefully made beds and school desks. It buried fields filled with avocado trees and the village‘s prized ripe green cherimoya fruit. It left Barbablanca‘s hydroelectric plant an enclosure of metal rods planted in a blanket of sludge.
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Forbes
The holiday season is a time of joy, celebration, and reflection. I am scientist and one of Forbes’ contributors in the weather and climate space. However, I am human being before any of those titles, and lately the Bahamas have been on my mind. During early September 2019, Hurricane Dorian ravaged the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama with Category 5 intensity.
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Newsweek
The Philippines has been struck by a powerful earthquake that has left at least one person dead.
The earthquake measured 6.8 magnitude on the Richter scale, with its epicenter located around 50 miles southwest of the city of Davao on the island of Mindanao, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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DW
Inclement weather on Saturday felled trees and cut off power supply to thousands in southwestern France. The storm triggered floodwaters that reportedly rose by 30 centimeters (1 foot) every hour in some areas.
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