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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

They are responsible for ensuring public safety, emergency response, and timely community awareness. Hurricane preparedness considerations for hospitals include the same requirements as corporate and government entities. Hurricane Preparedness on Campus. How to Prepare Your Business for a Hurricane.

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Transforming Disaster Management: The Promise and Challenges of AI in Wildfire Damage Assessment

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

This manual process requires assessors to physically visit each site, which can be time-consuming, dangerous, labor-intensive, and subject to human error, particularly in areas with severe destruction or hazardous conditions. This efficiency is critical when coordinating an emergency response. Remote Sensing, 14(2), 382.

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

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The disaster highlighted the need for disaster preparedness and offered valuable lessons as governments adapt to the new normal of increasingly extreme events. Dr. Pierre Gentine , the Director of LEAP , was in Valencia at the time of this natural disaster, working at the University of Valencia during his sabbatical.

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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". The response to these floods revealed a lack of crucial connections in civil protection between the federal government and the states. Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012.