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AI for Wildfires and Heatwaves

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The 2025 wildfire season in the United States is forecasted to be above normal, highlighting the need to leverage emerging technologies for hazard risk mitigation. The Euro-Mediterranean and North African region MedEWSa serves is highly populated, economically vital, and rapidly warming, with a high diversity of people and hazards.

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Data and AI for Decision-Support and Policy

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Each phase of the disaster management cyclemitigation, preparedness, response, and recoveryrequires different tools, datasets, and approaches, all of which can benefit from the application of AI (Table 1). Its outputs directly informed the Metropolitan Transportation Authoritys (MTA) first Climate Resilience Roadmap in April 2024.

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State Legislative Update: 2024 Legislation Impacting the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

The author has indicated she will reintroduce the measure for the 2025-2026 session. That state “consensus” model that has emerged features enforcement by state attorney generals (no private right of action) and all similar state laws include essential security-use exemptions. states with such measures to 20. 2) A medical alert. (3)

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AI In Crisis Management and the Future of Preparedness

Erwood Group

AI-Powered Drones: Drones and robots will assist in search and rescue, delivering supplies in hazardous areas ( Redress Compliance ). In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative tool, leveraging technologies like machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI to enhance all phases of crisis management.

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Lessons from Valencia’s Deadly Floods and the Role of AI in Disaster Preparedness

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

AEMET, Spains meteorological service, warned authorities and the public two days before the catastrophe occurred that there was a 70 percent chance of torrential rain and issued a red alert for severe weather at 7:30 AM on the day of the disaster. the exposure and thus risk).

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News roundup for Fri, Dec 09, 2022

The Prepared

Thank you all for the love and contributions, it has always mattered to me Do you like this replacement idea? More Americans are moving to places with high climate hazards. Recent natural disasters, rising home prices, and inflation all contribute to this trend. This will be the last News Roundup.

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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. First of all, we need a change in culture towards something more inclusive and more serious.