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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. The 2019 report is accompanied by an executive summary called GAR Distilled. It could be argued that political decision making is the greatest barrier of all to successful disaster risk reduction. The GAR notes that "we all live in communities".

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Emergency Management on the Southwest Border

Disaster Zone Podcast

What makes it much more challenging is the mass migration of immigrants that has occurred in recent years, beginning in 2019. Jorge also highlights his belief that emergency management is moving to a stage of our profession where we need to be transitioning from an “all-hazards” approach to one that is “all-crisis.”

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Serious Trouble With the National Flood Ins. Program

Recovery Diva

“The upshot is that FEMA flood hazard maps that determine coverage today rely on outdated information so inaccurate that more than 40 percent of NFIP claims made from 2017 to 2019 were for properties outside official flood hazard zones or in areas the agency had not mapped at all.”

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$10 Billion Dollar Disaster Recovery in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Disaster Zone Podcast

just weeks after he took office in 2019 and has since been focused on managing upwards of $10 billion in federal disaster recovery funds for well over a thousand projects big and small. In the podcast we discuss all the aspects of setting up and running billions of dollars of projects, from staffing to project management.

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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. Commissioner Thiel is responsible for leading the Philadelphia Fire Department’s 3,000+ members in every facet of protecting our Nation’s 6th-largest city from fires and emergencies arising from all hazards.

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Fire Safety for Electric Vehicles and Other Modern Vehicles in Parking Structures

National Fire Protection Association

RELATED: Read a 2019 NFPA Journal feature story about the risks introduced to parking garages by modern vehicles There can also be several different types of technology integrated into parking structures, such as car stackers or automated parking systems which store and retrieve vehicles without a driver. gpm/ft2 to 0.2

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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Emergency Planning

I replied that, as there are more than 80 dedicated journals in the disasters, risks and hazards fields, and more than 500 others that occasionally publish papers on such themes, no such need existed. The reason for mentioning this example is part of my response to an article that appeared in Times Higher Education (THE 2019).