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CISA What is it. What does it Do?

Disaster Zone Podcast

Mr. Massey has served as the Regional Director of the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Region 10 office in Seattle since 2016. He also served as the Regional Integration Branch Chief, Technological Hazards Branch Chief, and as a Hazard Mitigation Specialist. Pat Massey is the guest.

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What's Happening with the Fire Service?

Disaster Zone Podcast

To give you the depth and breadth of his experience I’m including much, but not all, of his biography. In May 2016, Mayor James Kenney appointed Adam Thiel to serve as the 20th Fire Commissioner for the City of Philadelphia. To give you the depth and breadth of his experience I’m including much, but not all, of his biography.

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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

Secondly, and more importantly, vulnerability, risk, impact and their controlling factors are all trending. Migration, conflict, climate extremes, proliferating technological failure and associated consequences all pose this kind of threat. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. References Alexander, D.E.

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Expanding Our Impact: PagerDuty.org Funds Organizations at the Intersections of Healthcare and Sustainability by Nisha Kadaba

PagerDuty

Climate change, and the associated health and environmental hazards it causes, disproportionately impact under-resourced communities the most. Since 2016, Plentiful has connected more than 5.5

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PREPARING COASTAL BUSINESSES FOR THE BIG 3 - #2 EARTHQUAKES

CCEM Strategies

After witnessing the devastating effects of the April 2016 earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan, it’s increasingly difficult to deny the importance of planning and preparing for earthquakes. What can you do to mitigate hazards? And, if you’re located in coastal areas, your chances of being affected increase.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Pandemic Influenza 18-to 20 October 2016. I have taught it every year since then. Exercise Cygnus Report.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Krausmann, E.,