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Mon, 2011-05-23 09:48 — mdmcdonald
This working group is focused on discussions about disaster management.

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Storms: Mid-Atlantic Power Outages Could Last Days

Sun, 2012-07-01 15:12 — Kathy Gilbeaux
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Power Outages Impact Millions Across the Nation (This news video is preceded by a brief commercial.)

Social Networks Essential to Rebuilding from Western Wildfires, Other Disasters

Thu, 2012-06-21 18:56 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Homeland Security News Wire - June 21, 2012

A disaster recovery expert says that the relationships people have with their neighbors are invaluable in the recovery from natural disasters from the moment an evacuation issue notice is granted to living in shelters and to how a community rebuilds after a wildfire, flooding, or hurricane

How well residents evicted by Western wildfires know their neighbors will likely play a major role in how they cope and rebuild, says a Purdue University expert.

“The relationships people have with their neighbors are invaluable in the recovery from natural disasters from the moment an evacuation issue notice is granted to living in shelters and to how a community rebuilds after a wildfire, flooding or hurricane,” says Daniel Aldrich, an associate professor of political science who studies how people recover from natural disasters. “Supporting these social networks is just as important as the logistical planning of surviving and taking shelter from a natural disaster. My research shows that people who know their neighbors are more likely to survive and return to their communities to rebuild.”

Mobile data used to predict population displacement during disasters

Thu, 2012-06-21 11:36 — Maeryn Obley

Submitted by Luis Kun

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - June 20th, 2012

Using data supplied by a mobile operator, researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have shown that population movements after the 2010 Haiti earthquake followed regular patterns. This information can be used to predict beforehand the movements of people after a disaster, and thus improves chances for aid to be delivered to the right places at the right time.

Every year, tens of millions of people are displaced by natural disasters, and to date knowledge of their movement patterns has been sparse.

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Private, public partners in Illinois CBRN emergency drill

Thu, 2012-06-07 10:32 — Maeryn Obley

submitted by Samuel Bendett

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - June 5, 2012

More than 200 people representing businesses in Lake and Cook counties, Illinois along with public partners representing federal, state, and local jurisdictions, participated in a full-scale disaster exercise at Grainger in Lake Forest on Saturday, 2 June. Complementing the exercise, experts from public and private organizations led discussions on topics regarding community resiliency and catastrophic response.

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Report: FEMA Lacks Centralized Standards for Reserve Disaster Workforce

Mon, 2012-06-04 17:44 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Mike Kraft

hstoday.us - by Mickey McCarter - June 4, 2012

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) does not monitor how its reserve workforce applies disaster guidance and policies in different areas of the United States and thus does not ensure consistency across its 10 regional offices, congressional investigators warned Friday.

Moreover, FEMA lacks hiring standards for reserve employees under the Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE) program; therefore those employees are likely to have different skill sets from region to region, said the Government Accountability Office in a report, Disaster Assistance Workforce: FEMA Could Enhance Human Capital Management and Training.

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Disaster Assistance Workforce: FEMA Could Enhance Human Capital Management and Training (64 page .PDF file)
http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/591159.pdf

Simulating the Effects of Different Actions to Minimize Disaster’s Consequences

Mon, 2012-06-04 16:49 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Linton Wells

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - June 1, 2012

The European CRISMA project prepares for disasters by developing a decision-support tool to help the authorities, responders, communities, and private parties to prioritize the most important measures for saving lives and mitigating the effects of the crisis.

The CRISMA project, coordinated by VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, is developing a planning tool for crises which have immediate, extensive, and often irreversible consequences to the population and society. Crises of this type include natural disasters, toxic emissions, forest fires, and aircraft accidents.

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New Law Allows Mobilizing Reservists to Respond to Natural Disasters

Mon, 2012-05-28 18:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - May 22, 2012

Except for a crisis involving a weapon of mass destruction, the U.S. military reserves historically have been prohibited from providing a homeland disaster response; new authority in this year’s Defense Department authorization act changes that

New authority in this year’s Defense Department authorization act allows reservists in Air Force Reserve Command and other reserve components to be called to duty in response to natural disasters or emergencies in the homeland. The law also permits mobilizations for extended periods to support theater security missions around the world.

An Air Force Reserve Commands release reports that except for a crisis involving a weapon of mass destruction, the reserves historically have been prohibited from providing a homeland disaster response.

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Using Twitter to Share Information After a Disaster

Thu, 2012-05-24 23:36 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Luis Kun

Homeland Security News Wire - May 23, 2012

A study from North Carolina State University shows how people used Twitter following the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan, highlighting challenges for using the social media tool to share information. The study also indicates that social media have not changed what we communicate so much as how quickly we can disseminate it.

“I wanted to see if Twitter was an effective tool for sharing meaningful information about nuclear risk in the wake of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant,” says Dr. Andrew Binder, an assistant professor of communication at NC State and author of a paper describing the work. “I knew people would be sharing information, but I wanted to see whether it was anecdotal or substantive, and whether users were providing analysis and placing information in context.

“In the bigger picture, I wanted to see whether social media is changing the way we communicate, or if we are communicating the same way using different tools.”

Protect Your Business this Hurricane Season

Tue, 2012-05-22 22:40 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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May 29, 2012 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT

Click Here to Register

Join the SBA and Co-Sponsor Agility Recovery as we welcome renowned hurricane forecaster, Dr. Gerry Bell of the NOAA Climate Prediction Center, who will share with us the official NOAA Forecast for the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

Dr. Bell has published numerous scientific papers and given many lectures on Atlantic hurricane variability and on the climate factors controlling hurricane activity. He has appeared on numerous national news & weather network programs including CNN, FoxNews, The Weather Channel and more.

Only Half of Industrial Firms Confident They Could Recover Quickly from Disaster

Thu, 2012-05-10 18:26 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - May 10, 2012

Many organizations are struggling to manage their data in hybrid physical, virtual, and cloud environments; many still use multiple, disparate tools, which are likely to be spread across multiple sites, with just over a third (36 percent) managing three or more different solutions to protect their critical data

Despite 2011 experiencing record levels of environmental, economic, and political upheaval, the 2012 Acronis Disaster Recovery Index findings from the industrial sector, that is, construction and manufacturing, reveal that only 53 percent of respondents were confident they could recover quickly in the event of a disaster.

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