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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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Fast Company
From Aug. 18: When a terrorist struck Nice, France, on July 14 a new French government app designed to alert people failed. Three hours passed before SAIP, as the app is called, warned people in and around Nice of the danger on the city’s waterfront during Bastille Day festivities. This aspect of the tragedy highlights an emerging element of disaster preparation and response: the potential for smartphone apps, social media sites, and information technology to assist both emergency responders and the public at large in figuring out what is happening and what to do about it.
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The Atlantic
From Sept. 15: An almost-full, half-pie, waxing moon hanging lopsided in the night sky has long been a symbol of things to come. Now scientists have a new symbolism for the lunar phase we call first quarter: a looming risk of earthquakes. The moon is (mostly) responsible for Earth’s tides, which are strongest when the sun and moon are aligned, during a full moon or a new moon.
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The Times-Picayune
From Sept. 8: It was a once-in-a-millennium storm that delivered a sucker punch to the gut of Baton Rouge and its suburbs, resulting in a standing eight count for a city already reeling from the police shooting of Alton Sterling and a lone gunman's subsequent killing of three law enforcement officers. Yet even after the floodwaters receded and neighborhoods began to dry, residents have been tormented by near-daily, quick-strike afternoon thunderstorms and sauna-like conditions, exasperating spirits and slowing the ponderous slog toward recovery.
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The Washington Post
From Aug. 4: For the first time, the Zika virus has prompted public health officials to warn pregnant women to avoid traveling to a part of the continental United States. The travel advisory comes in response to a growing outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in South Florida. The state on Monday said there are 10 more people who have been infected with the Zika virus who likely contracted it from local mosquitoes, bringing the total number of such cases in the state to 14.
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Governing
From July 28: When former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack was about to take office in 1999, he went to the National Governors Association’s New Governor’s School, and sat next to then-Gov. Zell Miller of Georgia. Vilsack had one big question to ask his seatmate: “What are the one or two things I should focus on? Should it be health care? Jobs? Education?” As Vilsack recalls, “Gov. Miller said, ‘Son, emergency management. I guarantee you that within six months something is going to happen in your state and if you don’t handle it well, it won’t make any damn difference what you do in health care or jobs or education.”
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Campus Safety Magazine
From June 30: New rules have been established for drone operation. On June 21, the Obama administration announced that small drones for educational and research purposes will have open access to the skies, while commercial drones will have separate regulations that will be written at a later date.
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The Indianapolis Star
From Feb. 25: Soon after classes let out for lunch, Indiana's Wabash College officials fanned out onto the campus mall and told students to get inside. This was not a drill. Last week, law enforcement was searching for an employee suspected in a double homicide. But the students weren't told why they needed to seek shelter, and for some that uncertainty stirred anxiety as officers swept the campus.
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Toronto Star
From May 5: After a 7.8-magnitude earthquake ripped through Ecuador’s coastal region last month, Toronto-based GlobalMedic answered the call for aid with a posse of drones, which can survey, map and pinpoint damage as well as the location of survivors. The group’s founder, paramedic Rahul Singh, says they’re the way of the future for humanitarian aid.
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Bonner County Daily Bee
From June 16: Lessons were learned during the four-day "Cascadia Rising" drill, resulting in a successful exercise for the region’s emergency responders, local officials, health and medical staff, private industry and emergency operations center personnel who participated in the drill.
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Science Daily
From April 21: More than $7 trillion dollars economic damage and 8 million deaths via natural disasters since the start of the 20th century. These figures have been calculated using a database called CATDAT, which looks at examining socioeconomic indicators as well as collecting and evaluating socioeconomic loss data through time. The database has built a massive base for his post-disaster risk model which helps governments and aid organizations with catastrophe management and assessing rapidly the scale of a disaster.
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