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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

state develops a hazard mitigation plan, which identifies top local risks and provides a framework for long term strategies to reduce risk and protect citizens and property from damage. 8 states/territories mention pandemic planning but do not discuss further how the state or agency will be able to mitigate the hazard from the event.

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Nearly two decades after Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast, what policies have changed?

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Lessons learned after Katrina led the field to refocus again on an all-hazards and a more whole-community-oriented planning approach. Disaster Recovery Reform Act (2018) – This act introduced a number of reforms. One veterinarian estimated that a quarter of deaths were from people who couldn’t leave their pets behind.

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Symposium to Focus on the Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem and How Professionals Can Apply its Principles to Help Solve Today’s Fire Safety Challenges

National Fire Protection Association

When NFPA unveiled the Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem in 2018, stakeholders told us they were drawn to the idea.

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Experts Warn of Electric Vehicle Fires After Hurricane Ian Damages Lithium-Ion Batteries

National Fire Protection Association

As millions of Americans recover from Hurricane Ian, which made landfall near Fort Myers, Florida, on September 28, officials are warning of a new hazard: electric vehicles (EVs) that were damaged in the storm and now pose a fire risk. “Our They responded. (1/5) This is true even after a fire has occurred and been initially extinguished.

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Conspiracy Theory Brewing Over Chicken Farm Fires Is False, Experts Say

National Fire Protection Association

The numbers don’t lie According to data included in a recent Fire Protection Research Foundation (FPRF) report on fires in animal housing facilities, an estimated average of 930 fires occurred annually in livestock or poultry storage properties—which include spaces like barns, stockyards, and animal pens—in the US from 2014 to 2018.

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Double trouble: When climate change and cyber crime collide

everbridge

Recently, during the severe wildfires in California between 2018 and 2020, phishing attacks and scams pretending to be wildfire relief efforts were widespread. This is hazardous thinking. Cybercriminals impersonated federal and local government agencies and relief organizations. Think beyond single scenario planning.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). If we look at major emergencies in the UK over the last 25 years or so, there have been significant deficiencies in the response in just about every case.