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As 2016 comes to a close, IAEM would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we are providing the readers of the IAEM Dispatch a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 5.
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Business Insider
From Feb. 11: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper gave a chilling threat assessment today to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Clapper's testimony to the committee reflected the U.S. Intelligence Community's Worldwide Threat Assessment for the coming year. Based on the insights of the various branches of the U.S. Intelligence Community, Clapper provided a rundown of the major global and regional threats.
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The Independent
From May 12: Residents of southern California have been warned by a top seismologist that the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded and ready to go” and a major earthquake in the region is overdue. The dire warning has come just a few months after the Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, pushed legislation through the City Council demanding that the most vulnerable buildings in the city be retrofitted as soon as possible so they will be able to withstand violent shaking.
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USA Today
From Oct. 27: The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delivered a grim assessment Tuesday of the government's ability to contain Zika, saying it's too late to stop the dangerous virus from spreading throughout the United States. "Zika and other diseases spread by (the Aedes aegypti mosquito) are really not controllable with current technologies," CDC Director Thomas Frieden said. "We will see this become endemic in the hemisphere."
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WFTS-TV
From July 7: The 2016 hurricane season has already broken a number of records with four named tropical systems all before the end of June. There was a single mention of some unsettled weather in the Gulf of Mexico near the end of June, but everyone knew it wouldn't amount to much, let alone a full-blown tropical storm. The Atlantic went from producing a tropical storm every week or two to nothing in no time at all, so where did all the hurricanes go?
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Fox News
From Dec. 1: Ohio State University’s Buckeye Alert system warned students of a campus attacker within minutes of the car and knife attack unfolding Monday morning. Nine people were injured in the attack and the suspect was killed by a campus police officer. Monica Moll, the school's public safety director, told reporters the attack took place in front of Watts Hall, the location of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, around 9:52 a.m. ET.
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Campus Safety
From Aug. 11: We’re seeing the lightning-fast spread of misinformation about various people and topics via the Internet and news media. One topic that is currently a target of this rumor mill is lockdown and shelter-in-place. It seems as though many individuals who are active on social media believe that lockdown doesn’t work and that the only solution is for civilians to carry guns. They are mistaken.
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The New York Times
From June 23: As doctors treated the horrific injuries of victims shot in the Pulse nightclub massacre here, a mistaken report of a gunman nearby forced officials to briefly lock down the emergency room; the medical staff shoved heavy X-ray machines against the doors, creating a makeshift barricade in a treatment bay.
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The Christian Science Monitor
From Oct. 6: Following criticism for its brief, text-only emergency alert messages, the Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules for the country's Wireless Emergency Alert system on Sept. 29. The new rules will expand the capacity of emergency alerts to 360 characters (previously restricted to 90), allow embedded phone numbers and URLs, and support Spanish-language alerts.
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Phys.org
From Feb. 18: A new survey of American households finds two-thirds lack adequate plans and supplies for a disaster, and half of them are not confident in the ability of government to meet the needs of children in a disaster. Many are also not confident that their own communities have adequate plans for dealing with a hurricane, flood or other major event.
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BBC News
From Feb. 4: Experts are worried that the virus is spreading far and fast, with devastating consequences. The infection has been linked to cases of microcephaly, in which babies are born with underdeveloped brains. The World Health Organization alert puts Zika in the same category of concern as Ebola. It means research and aid will be fast-tracked to tackle the infection.
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