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Mon, 2011-05-23 09:48 — mdmcdonald
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Improved disaster resilience is imperative for U.S: report

Wed, 2012-08-08 11:48 — Maeryn Obley

submitted by Samuel Bendett

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - August 7th, 2012

Increasing the U.S. resilience to natural and human-caused disasters will require complementary federal policies and locally driven actions that center on a national vision, says a new report from the National Academies. The report, Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative, says that improving resilience should be seen as a long-term process, but it can be coordinated around measurable short-term goals that will allow communities to better prepare and plan for, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse events.

“Without innovations to improve resilience, the cost of disasters will continue to rise both in absolute dollar amounts and in losses to social, cultural, and environmental systems in each community,” said Susan L. Cutter, director of the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at the University of South Carolina and chair of the committee that wrote the report.  “Enhancing our resilience to disasters is imperative for the stability, progress, and well-being of the nation.”

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Following Disaster Drill, City Wants Residents to Plan Ahead

Tue, 2012-07-31 10:39 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

news-leader.com - by Amos Bridges - July 27, 2012

Fresh from a FEMA training drill that saw a swath of Springfield destroyed by a mock tornado, local emergency management officials hope to spur local residents and businesses to develop their own disaster plans.

About 70 city and county employees and other community officials involved in emergency management participated in a simulation at the National Fire Academy in Maryland last week. The drill, tailored to the Springfield area, included an outbreak of disease, power disruptions and a tornado that took out Mercy Hospital and Bass Pro Shops.

As a follow-up to the exercise, dubbed “Disaster Camp” by attendees, the city is developing an education campaign ahead of National Emergency Preparedness Month in September, a news release said.

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Enhancing Public Health Emergency Preparedness for Special Needs Populations - A Toolkit for State and Local Planning and Response

Sun, 2012-07-22 01:42 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                                                       

rand.org - - by Jeanne S. Ringel, Anita Chandra, Malcolm Williams, Karen A. Ricci, Alexandria Felton, David M. Adamson, Margaret M. Weden, Meilinda Huang

Building Community Resilience to Disasters - A Way Forward to Enhance National Health Security

Sun, 2012-07-22 01:04 — Kathy Gilbeaux

rand.org

Community resilience, or the sustained ability of a community to withstand and recover from adversity has become a key policy issue at federal, state, and local levels, including in the National Health Security Strategy. Because resources are limited in the wake of an emergency, it is increasingly recognized that resilience is critical to a community's ability to reduce long recovery periods after an emergency. This report provides a roadmap for federal, state, and local leaders who are developing plans to enhance community resilience for health security threats and describes options for building community resilience in key areas. Based on findings from a literature review and a series of community and regional focus groups, the authors provide a definition of community resilience in the context of national health security and a set of eight levers and five core components for building resilience. They then describe suggested activities that communities are pursuing and may want to strengthen for community resilience, and they identify challenges to implementation.

Why Aren't Americans Listening to Disaster Preparedness Messages?

Sun, 2012-07-22 00:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

rand.org - by Lori Uscher-Pines, Anita Chandra, Joie Acosta, Arthur L. Kellermann - June 29, 2012

"Have an emergency plan for your family.” "Expect to be on your own for three days." "Stock a disaster kit with water, food, basic medical supplies, and prescription drugs. Include extra clothes, a flashlight, and a battery-powered radio." "Be sure you know what your community's disaster plan is."

This is the kind of advice public health officials have been giving the public since 9/11. But the public isn't listening. Four years after Hurricane Katrina, only slightly more than half of those responding to a survey by the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported that they had any kind of emergency preparedness kit in their homes. Other national surveys report similarly dismal findings.

Given the recent spate of highly publicized disasters, why don't more Americans pay attention?

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Register for Regional Situational Awareness Workshop, August 16 (McLean, VA)

Fri, 2012-07-13 23:23 — Corey Watts

The All Hazards Consortium, the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security & Preparedness, MITRE Corporation, and the DHS Science and Technology Office of First Responder Programs present:

 

REGIONAL "SITUATIONAL AWARENESS" WORKSHOP 

A "One Region" Approach Towards Public/Private Information Sharing

  

August 16, 2012 

McLean, Virginia

8:00 AM to 2:00 PM

2012 Annual Public Safety Survey: Revealing Americans' Awareness and Preparedness Surrounding Emergency Situations

Fri, 2012-07-13 21:40 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Ben Sheppard

federalsignal-indust.com

We believe Federal Signal's 2012 Public Safety Survey is the most comprehensive national survey gauging the public's emotional reactions to emergency and disaster situations - from their response to notification alerts and sirens to their trust in their community's emergency preparedness. It takes more than community officials to ensure that the public is prepared for a disaster. Whether warnings emanate from a siren or from a neighbor, effective response to an emergency alert or notification demands the engagement of each and every citizen. This survey brings to light just how critical it is for members of the general public to be actively engaged during an emergency crisis. More importantly, the survey stresses how important it is for Americans to have an emergency plan in place that enables them to act quickly when their safety is threatened.

http://www.federalsignal-indust.com/survey.asp

2012 Annual Public Safety Survey: Revealing Americans' Awareness and Preparedness Surrounding Emergency Situations (12 page .PDF file)

Small, local energy technologies to help sustain vital services during blackouts

Fri, 2012-07-13 14:06 — Maeryn Obley

submitted by Samuel Bendett

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - July 12th, 2012

Researchers suggest that rethinking the solution to sustaining electric power — namely, starting small — could keep critical services going, even when the high-voltage grid is crippled; the U.S. military is already taking steps to protect its power supplies in the event of a massive grid failure by adopting small, local energy technologies, and California governor Jerry Brown recently announced that he wants 12,000 megawatts of such power supplies in his state.

Keeping the lights on can be a challenge during extreme weather and other disasters like those affecting the East Coast of the United States this summer, but real options may be available to avoid some of the power-related crises that follow upon such events.

Overcoming Inertia - Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI)

Tue, 2012-07-10 11:41 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Tom McGinn

                                  

June 2012 CARRI News - By Warren Edwards, Executive Director, CARRI

Power Companies May Be Missing Info from DHS to Protect Assets from Storms

Mon, 2012-07-09 01:03 — Maeryn Obley

submitted by Luis Kun

hstoday.us - Mickey McCarter - July 6th, 2012

While more than a million people struggled through a loss of power in the Washington, DC, region in the past week because of a devastating derecho, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also has been struggling to share data that could potentially prevent such damaging widespread power outages.

Under the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), DHS asks companies that own or operate critical infrastructure to participate in voluntary surveys to determine where weaknesses may exist within those systems, which range from power plants to water facilities to transportation centers and more.

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