You are here

Home

Emergency Management - US

Primary tabs

Wed, 2012-10-03 18:01 — mdmcdonald
The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about emergency management.

The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about emergency management.

Add Content to this group

Click to add a new Group Post Simple to this group
Click to add a new Group Post Simple w Images to this group
Click to add a new Group Post to this group
Click to add a new PRIVATE Group Post to this group
Click to add a new TASK to this group

Members

Amanda Cole Kathy Gilbeaux Lisa Stelly Thomas mdmcdonald Miles Marcotte
Subscribe to group

Email address for group

emergency-management-us@m.resiliencesystem.org

Search for Survivors Begins After Massive Oklahoma tornado

Mon, 2013-05-20 21:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

cbsnews.com - May 20, 2013

OKLAHOMA CITY - A mix of volunteers and first responders began combing through debris in the Oklahoma City area Monday evening to look for survivors after neighborhoods were flattened by a mile-wide tornado.

The National Weather Service says the devastating twister, one of several created by a storm system that swept through nation's midsection the past 36 hours, reached winds up to 200 mph.

Television footage on Monday afternoon showed homes and buildings that had been reduced to rubble in Moore, Okla., south of Oklahoma City.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

IHSS Research: Faith-Based and Community Organizations play important role in emergency preparedness and response, but could benefit from increased integration with established networks

Thu, 2013-05-02 23:56 — Maeryn Obley

http://sites.duke.edu

IHSS researchers have been exploring the indicators of  effective collaborative relationships between Faith-Based Community Organizations (FBCOs) and Emergency Management Organizations (EMOs) since 2009. Understanding such working relationships can help create a framework to expand contributions of local organizations in helping communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and other emergencies.
 
A survey of the literature has drawn several distinct conclusions: FBOs generally have pre-disaster capacity strength in providing emergency services (food, shelter, cash assistance); they have limited resources (funding and staffing); most are located near the low-income populations they serve on a day-to-day basis; and few had existing interactions with other FBCOs or Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) prior to a disaster. Despite the lack of an established, cohesive network, when facing disaster these organizations were able to adapt quickly by integrating their efforts into an ad hoc network better suited to direct the relief effort.

(VIEW OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT)

Colorado State University Team Predicts Above-Average 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season in 30th Year of Forecasting

Mon, 2013-04-29 20:21 — admin

Courtesty of Henry Rodriguez        Released by Colorado State Universtiy     Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The Colorado State University team today predicted an above-average 2013 Atlantic basin hurricane season due primarily to anomalous warming of the tropical Atlantic and expected lack of an El Nino event.

CSU is in its 30th year of issuing Atlantic basin seasonal hurricane forecasts.

The team calls for 18 named storms during the hurricane season, which falls between June 1 and Nov. 30. Nine of those are expected to become hurricanes and four of those major hurricanes (Saffir/Simpson category 3-4-5) with sustained winds of 111 mph or greater.

Read entire article and see full forecast

Environmental Justice Soldiers On Without a King, Queen—or Major Dollars

Fri, 2013-04-26 18:21 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

UPROSE “Youth Justice” members at a rally for the closing of New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant. Photo: Murad Awawdeh/UPROSE

colorlines.com - by Brentin Mock - April 23, 2013

While mainstream environmental organizations lick their wounds over the failure of climate-change legislation and their startling lack of diversity, people of color and those living on low incomes continue to bear the brunt of climate-change impacts. We saw this most recently with Superstorm Sandy, which ripped through New York and the northeastern seaboard late last year. Sandy devastated many communities in low-lying areas such as the South Bronx and parts of New Jersey.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

NEJM - Research as a Part of Public Health Emergency Response

Sun, 2013-04-07 23:06 — Kathy Gilbeaux

            

nejm.org - March 28, 2013

In the past decade, a succession of public health emergencies has challenged preparedness and response capacities of government agencies, hospitals and clinics, public health agencies, and academic researchers, in the United States and abroad. The epidemic of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the anthrax mailings stand out as signal examples in the early years of the decade. In addition to natural disasters such as the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the 2012 Superstorm Sandy, other recent events — including the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor emergency in Japan — illustrate the diverse and complex forms that threats to public health can assume. Figure 1 displays some examples over the past decade or so and highlights the diversity and frequency of events that can be expected to occur in the foreseeable future.

DTRA: Social behavior modeling system can help response planning before catastrophe strikes

Sat, 2013-03-23 10:11 — Maeryn Obley

dvidshub.net - March 7th, 2013 - Deveney Wall

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency introduced a social behavior modeling system that may make Joint Task Force Civil Support’s response to a natural or man-made disaster more efficient.

Members of DTRA visited JTF-CS last week to discuss how the Comprehensive National Incident Management System – or “CNIMS” - can assist with planning efforts to “reduce, eliminate, counter, and mitigate” the effects of threats within the United States.

The system, which is a Virginia Tech research program, uses a collection of interoperable simulations of societal infrastructures, coupled with individual-based social networks, to simulate up to 300 million individuals, 100 million locations, and temporal scale of minutes and a spatial scale of a few meters.

(VIEW COMPLETE ARTICLE)

OCHA - Japan: An Earthquake, a Tsunami – and a Handwritten Newspaper

Tue, 2013-03-19 16:52 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

A rescue worker uses a two-way radio transceiver during heavy snowfall at a factory area devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, northern Japan, 16 March 2011. Credit: REUTERS/KIM KYUNG-HOON

unocha.org - March 15, 2013

When one of the most technologically sophisticated countries in the world is hit by a triple emergency, should we count on web platforms and social media to deliver lifesaving information? Not necessarily, according to a new report by Internews into the communications aspects of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan.

. . . instead of their usual high-tech operation, local newspaper reporters went back a few decades in time and produced a handwritten newspaper.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Internews Report - Connecting the Last Mile: The Role of Communications in the Great East Japan Earthquake
http://www.internews.org/research-publications/connecting-last-mile-role-communications-great-east-japan-earthquake

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Communication
Disaster Response
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Solutions
Problem
Situation Report

Florida County Taps Faith-Based Community for Preparedness

Thu, 2013-03-14 00:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Illustration by Tom McKeith

submitted by Samuel Bendett

emergencymgmt.com - by Lauren Katims - March 11, 2013

Miami-Dade County, Fla., emergency management officials have been praised for their effective preparedness and recovery in a hurricane-and flood-prone area. Now the county is serving as the pilot for a federal program to better engage members of the community who haven’t been as easy to reach.

Communities Organized to Respond in Emergencies (CORE), a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, is designed to better engage faith-based and community organizations in planning for, responding to and recovering from disasters.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Verily: Crowdsourced Verification for Disaster Response

Fri, 2013-03-01 18:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                   

irevolution.net - by Patrick Meier - February 19, 2013

Social media is increasingly used for communicating during crises. This rise in Big (Crisis) Data means that finding the proverbial needle in the growing haystack of information is becoming a major challenge.

QCRI and Masdar have launched an experimental  platform called Verily. We are applying best practices in time-critical crowd-sourcing coupled with gamification and reputation mechanisms to leverage the good will of (hopefully) thousands of digital Samaritans during disasters.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Veri.ly
http://www.veri.ly/

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Communication
Disaster Response
Research
Technology
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Solutions
Problem

Making Communities More Resilient to Climate-Induced Weather Disasters

Tue, 2013-02-26 23:08 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - February 18, 2013

Mounting scientific evidence indicates climate change will lead to more frequent and intense extreme weather that affects larger areas and lasts longer. We can reduce the risk of weather-related disasters, however, with a variety of measures. Experts say that a good strategy should include a variety of actions such as communicating risk and transferring it through vehicles such as insurance, taking a multi-hazard management approach, linking local and global management, and taking an iterative approach as opposed to starting with a master plan.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Disaster Risk Reduction
Resilience
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Solutions
Problem

Pages

howdy folks