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With 2018 coming to a close, IAEM hopes its members, partners and other industry professionals are enjoying 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. 10.
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Government Technology
From March 29: The nation’s two dedicated first responder networks are going live this week with private core services for members, representatives of both entities said.
In a news release, officials at AT&T, the service provider for the First Responder Network Authority, announced the launch of FirstNet’s core network across 56 states and territories March 27.
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Homeland Security News Wire
From May 31: A little-known virus discovered 20 years ago could become the next global pandemic. A recent outbreak of Nipah in South India has renewed interest in the virus, which has a mortality rate of up to 70 percent and has no vaccine or cure. “Emerging infections have resulted in the most devastating infectious diseases that humanity has ever faced. These include HIV, tuberculosis, measles and smallpox. History has taught us that emerging infections can be major threats,” says Stanford University epidemiologist and Nipah expert Stephen Luby.
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The Hill
From May 24: A new outbreak of the Ebola virus that has killed at least two dozen people has sent public health officials scrambling to contain the epidemic as it threatens to spread far beyond the remote jungles of the Congo River Basin — and raises new questions about the World Health Organization’s (WHO) preparations for the next killer virus.
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The Ring of Fire Network
From Oct. 11: Ahead of Hurricane Florence, emergency managers watched the so-called "Waffle House Index," an informal gauge for FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to determine how quickly a community might bounce back economically after a disaster. Mollye Barrows joins Bart Chilton to discuss.
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Route Fifty
From Nov. 1: For Iowa City, Dubuque Street is an important corridor, providing an artery for roughly 25,000 vehicles to travel each day between the city and Interstate 80, which runs along the northern edge of town.
But historically the road has been prone to flooding from the nearby Iowa River, which snakes alongside it to the west, as well as flash floods caused by heavy rains.
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NBC News
From May 3: From telescopes to heart stents and artificial muscles, origami has inspired all sorts of curiously innovative objects. Now a trio of Polish designers has won a major design competition for their proposal for an origami-inspired skyscraper that could be transported to a building site in folded form and then unfolded to its full height with help from a huge, built-in helium balloon.
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Sioux City Journal
From Oct. 18: Emma Webb received a pet betta as a birthday gift. The turquoise, purple and red fish that lives in a square tank is Emma's favorite and only fish.
The Leeds Elementary School fourth-grader learned Tuesday that if the fish, which she named Buttercup, isn't right next to her and easily accessible in the event of a house fire, she should focus on getting herself out of harm's way by escaping through a door or window.
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WIRED
From May 10: Along with the roar of a grizzly bear and a crack of lightning, the sound of a tornado is among the most terrifying natural sounds on Earth. Depending on the twister and where you’re standing, it can sound like a hiss, a buzz, a rumble, or even a freight train. It’s the auditory manifestation of trouble.
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Manufactured in Northern California, sales and distribution offices: Louisiana, Maryland,
United Kingdom, European Union, Middle East, South Pacific, and the Far East.
AquaDams have been deployed throughout the globe for flood protection.
Contact us: 800-682-9283, Email: sales@aquadam.net
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
From Aug. 30: Las Vegas police and Clark County firefighters experienced numerous communication problems and failed to follow some protocols on the night of the Oct. 1 mass shooting, according to a federal report released Monday.
But the 61-page report also described the response to the attack — which left 58 concertgoers dead and more than 800 people injured — as “efficient” and “coordinated,” crediting the counter-terrorism training of Las Vegas police.
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