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Register online today for the next IAEM Thursday Learning Series webinar, “Budgeting for Disasters: Challenges and Innovative Practices in Times of Uncertainty,” on Jan. 7, 2019, 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST. In recent years, natural disasters have increased in the United States in terms of frequency, severity, and cost. For example, FEMA’s Public Assistance Grant Program, the largest source of federal disaster assistance to state and local governments, increased by 212 percent from 1996 to 2015. Since state and local governments bear part of the cost of federally declared disasters, governments at all levels are spending more on response and recovery. Panel members representing state and local government will discuss actions their jurisdictions have taken to manage volatile, increased costs through innovative budgeting practices. Audience members will be encouraged to share best practices as well as recent actions taken in their own jurisdictions.
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With only a couple of weeks left in the year, it is time to make your final decisions on charitable donations. A donation to the IAEM Scholarship Program supports the future of emergency management. Since 2002, the IAEM Scholarship Program has provided $107,000 in scholarships through a competitive process to 59 deserving students working towards degrees in emergency management, disaster management or a closely related program of study. Your donation will help us continue and grow the program. Donations of all sizes keep this program going, and making a donation is easy. You may donate online at www.iaem.com/scholarships, or mail a check to the IAEM Scholarship Program, 201 Park Washington Ct., Falls Church, VA 22046. Thank you for your support of the IAEM Scholarship Program.
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Online registration is now available for the IAEM-Canada 2019 Conference, “Bridging Public-Private Partnerships in Emergency Management.” The conference has been scheduled for June 4-7, 2019, at The Bow Building, Calgary, Alberta. If you have to pick just one conference to attend this year, the IAEM-Canada 2019 Conference is the one. This multi-day training and education event will provide you with many benefits: education and training; using collaboration to improve job proficiency; pre-conference training; and an emergency management showcase of the latest technologies, products and services. Visit the event site for complete details.
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FEMA’s National Integration Center is seeking feedback on the draft Supply Chain Resilience Guide. Feedback and recommendations received will help to ensure that the final version of the guide is an effective resource for emergency managers across the nation. The Supply Chain Resilience Guide provides emergency managers with recommendations on how to analyze local supply chains and enhance supply chain resilience using a five-phased approach. The guide also identifies how emergency managers can use information from the supply chain resilience process to inform development or refinement of logistics plans or annexes. This is important because supply chains that effectively adapt to disasters, disruptions, and fluctuating needs greatly benefit the community and can reduce the need for a larger response and recovery operation. Please submit any comments, input or recommendations using the provided comment matrix by 5:00 p.m. EST on Jan. 17, 2019, to NPD-Planning@fema.dhs.gov.
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Individual, Affiliate and Lifetime members of IAEM-USA Regions 2 and 6 are voting for regional vice president in special elections that both end at 5:00 p.m. EST, Dec. 21, 2018. The Region 2 election voting page and the Region 6 voting page have information about the candidates in each of these elections, plus instructions on how to vote.
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The nominations period for IAEM-USA Region 8 vice president and secretary-treasurer ends at 5:00 p.m. EST, Dec. 21, 2018. Candidates must submit their credentials by the deadline via email to Karen Thompson, IAEM elections liaison. Region 8 Individual members are encouraged to get more involved in the work of IAEM through running for office. Details on determining eligibility and submitting credentials are posted on the Region 8 web page.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report entitled “Long-Range Emerging Threats Facing the United State as Identified by Federal Agencies.” A House committee report accompanying a bill for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2018 included a provision for GAO to identify emerging threats of high national security consequence. To identify long-range emerging threats, GAO administered a questionnaire to 45 government organizations that assess emerging threats and had a 78 percent response rate. GAO conducted a content analysis of the responses to identify specific threats and develop broad threat categories. To supplement the data from the questionnaire, GAO reviewed national security strategies and agency documents and interviewed key agency officials. This report is a public version of a classified report that GAO issued on Sept. 28, 2018. The report, summary, highlights and infographics are posted online.
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CNY Central
It can happen here, and we are not ready for it.
That is the sobering message delivered by the National Infrastructure Advisory Council in a new report on the United States’ ability to respond to and recover from an extended catastrophic power outage. In the report, released earlier this week, the council was tasked to examine preparedness for “a catastrophic power outage of a magnitude beyond modern experience, exceeding prior events in severity, scale, duration, and consequence.”
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Texas Tribune
A commission convened by Gov. Greg Abbott to focus on rebuilding after Hurricane Harvey issued a report Thursday saying the state should take a series of steps to prepare for the next big storm, including improving local disaster response procedures and considering major infrastructure projects designed to harden the state against future disasters.
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Homeland Security News
Public-safety communications systems are used by thousands of federal, state and local jurisdictions. The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Emergency Communications (OEC) offers written guidance, governance planning, and technical assistance to help ensure public-safety entities have the necessary plans, resources, and training to support emergency communications.
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Science News
Tornadoes may form from the ground up, rather than the top down.
That could sound counterintuitive. Many people may picture a funnel cloud emerging from the bottom of a dark mass of thunderstorms and then extending to the ground, atmospheric scientist Jana Houser said in a news conference at the American Geophysical Union meeting.
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EDM Digest
Hospitals are an intrinsic part of emergency preparedness and disaster recovery, but they are not immune to damage from natural disasters. Recently, the News Herald of Panama City, Florida, reported that Bay Medical Sacred Heart hospital will lay off almost half of its 1,645 employees as a result of the heavy wind and water damage it sustained from Hurricane Michael in October.
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The Mercury News
Residents of Paradise bitterly complained in the wake of the Camp Fire that Butte County’s early warning system failed them, and now a detailed Bay Area News Group analysis shows just how thorough that failure was.
The review revealed that thousands of critical cellphone messages were missed, delayed or lost — a disturbing reminder of the fragility of our electronic notifications systems, even as more of our lives move online.
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Star Advertiser
When a wildfire burned across Big Sur two years ago and threatened hundreds of homes scattered on the scenic hills, thousands of firefighters responded with overwhelming force, attacking flames from the air and ground.
In the first week, the blaze destroyed 57 homes and killed a bulldozer operator, then moved into remote wilderness in the Los Padres National Forest. Yet for nearly three more months the attack barely let up.
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USA Today
The question is not if a massive earthquake will hit more than a half dozen states that border the Mississippi River, but rather when it will happen.
A minor earthquake early Wednesday that centered on Decatur in East Tennessee about 60 miles southwest of Knoxville was felt into Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina and South Carolina.
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KGOU-Radio
Gala Soe and his family sit on their living room floor, watching his infant daughter play with bright plastic balls on a colorful mat. Portraits of family members line the walls of their trailer. “Because my dad, every year he tries to take a picture for a memory,” he said.
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The Washington Post via SFGate
The Big One — a catastrophic earthquake — is coming. When? Where? How violent and destructive will it be? Scientists would love to be able to answer these questions, but they've been humbled by earthquakes too often. The earth shakes unpredictably. There's chaos in the mix. Geophysicists can create hazard maps that show known faults and the probability of an earthquake in the coming decades.
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IAEM
Candidates due to recertify in 2018 should submit their application by 11:59 p.m. EST on Dec. 31, 2018. 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.
Kitsap Sun
Emergencies you train for may never happen. But you'd better be ready if they do. And in Elizabeth "Lis" Klute's career, they have.
Kitsap County's new director of emergency management was, until recently, Amtrak's regional emergency manager for a group of western states and provinces that includes Washington.
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IAEM
Please join leaders from the nation’s emergency management organizations for the next live taping of PrepTalks on Mar. 5, 2019, in Sonoma County, California. By attending, you will hear eight PrepTalks from subject matter experts and international thought leaders on issues confronting emergency managers today and in the future. Audience members also will be able to ask questions of the speakers. PrepTalks are brought to the emergency management community through a partnership that includes: FEMA, IAEM, NEMA, NHSC and NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security. Visit the PrepTalks website to learn more about the talks and view videos of past speakers. Registration is open online now for the March 2019 PrepTalks.
Taiwan News
Speaking at the opening ceremony of a Taiwan-U.S. cooperative workshop on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, Deputy Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Raymond Greene lauded Taiwan for its achievement in developing disaster preparedness.
The second workshop on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief opened on Friday at the National Fire Agency Training Center in Nantou County.
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CNN
First came a boom, shortly followed by the sound of something bursting. Then, a giant wave — big enough to submerge an area the size of Paris in 15 feet of water — washed across southeastern Laos, ripping villages apart, swallowing homes, and dispersing thousands of people.
The failure of a billion-dollar dam in the Lao province of Attapeu in July this year left at least 35 dead and over 7,000 homeless, according to sate-run media.
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The Associated Press via News24
A volcano in central Indonesia has erupted, ejecting columns of thick ash as high as 7,500m into the sky.
Mount Soputan, located on the northern part of Sulawesi island, erupted twice Sunday on morning, said the national disaster agency's spokesperson, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
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NZ Herald
Queensland police have issued a warning after flooding from ex-tropical Cyclone Owen has led crocodiles wandering onto roads.
Police released footage showing a crocodile sitting in the middle of the road as they drive through torrential rain in north Queensland.
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NDTV
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit Papua, in eastern Indonesia Sunday, US seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued.
The quake was about 158 kilometres (98 miles) south-southwest of the province's capital Jayapura at 6:42 pm (0942 GMT), at a depth of 61 kilometres, according to the US Geological Survey.
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BBC News
A huge explosion and fire has hit a restaurant in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo.
Japanese police say 42 people were injured in the explosion, with one of them in a serious condition.
The cause of the explosion in the Toyohira district is not yet known. Some reports suggested a gas blast.
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Bangkok Post
Some provinces in the South were affected Sunday by flooding triggered by torrential rain that erupted in the region over the weekend. The Meteorological Department also warned of more torrential rain. As of Sunday, Nakhon Si Thammarat, in particular, appeared to have suffered the worst of the downpours.
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The News Minute
Cyclone Phethai, which made a landfall near Katrenikona in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district at around 12.30 pm on Monday claimed two lives in the state, before the storm weakened into a deep depression with wind speed of 55-65 kmph gusting to 75 kmph. The Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) said that as of Monday evening, the cyclone was centred at Tuni.
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