FEMA Guide for Building in a Wildfire Zone. Here’s a list of suggestions for building and fire-proofing structures within an area prone to wildfires.
FEMA Guide for Building in a Wildfire Zone
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Craig Fugate on Managing FEMA
Thanks to my fellow blogger, Eric Holdeman, see this parting interview with FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, as published by Emergency Management magazine.
The Diva finds it interesting that outgoing Obama Administration officials, like Sec. Kerry and Administrator Fugate, are providing candid comments on their experience.
Pipeline Spills – as told by a mapstory
Is The Threat Of The Dakota Access Pipeline Real? “I thought pipeline accidents were rare. Turns out, they happen all the time.”
My suspicion was that pipeline accidents are rare, but as I investigated, I found that they actually happen all the time. As shown in the mapstory I produced above, in the last 30 years, there have been over 8,700 liquid pipeline spills, averaging nearly one every day.
New Report on Resilience from the White House
From the White House Office of Management and Budget a new report titled Standards and Finance to Support Community Resilience. This 29 page report is the culmination of collaboration with leaders in re/insurance, catastrophe modeling, and building science to advance community resilience and insurability. The office also announced additional commitments by leaders in the insurance industry to help identify and reduce the risks and costs of disasters.
EPA Knows How to Avoid Future City Water Crises
EPA Knows How o Avoid Future City Water Crises. It’s unclear where the next administration will lead the agency tasked with keeping America’s water safe.
EPA Looks to Mitigate Chemical Plant Disasters
EPA Looks to Mitigate Chemical Plant Disasters.
A new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation aims to minimize the harm to local communities from disasters at chemical plants.
The regulation overhauls major sections of the EPA’s Risk Management Program for such plants, with new requirements that companies coordinate with local officials and first responders, and learn from past mistakes.
States Will Lead on Climate Change
From the NY Times: States Will Lead on Climate Change in the Trump Era
State governments will serve as an important bulwark against any attempt by President-elect Donald Trump to roll back the progress the United States has made in addressing climate change. And that’s good news for the planet.
Website for Aid Supplies
While surfing the Internet, I ran across this interesting website that may be of use to those of you who do emergency response. See: The Level Market; Connecting Buyers and Suppliers to Deliver Aid to Those in Need.
Resources for Protecting Houses of Worship
I just heard on the evening news that emergency management officials are concerned that ISIS may be targeting houses of worship. The Diva has been maintaining another website to share as many resources as we could gather over the past two years to help secure HOWs. Go to: www.disastersandfaith.wordpress.com
Update as of 7pm. So far, for the U.S. this was based on unconfirmed chatter and DHS said it was not a credible threat and lacked any specific names. If DHS took this seriously there would be solid risk communication coming out on all fronts.
In Memoriam: Roy Popkin
Roy Popkin was a wonderful and remarkable man who made great contributions to the field of emergency management. He and I were friends and colleagues for more than 30 years. Here are some details of his life, from information provided by his family.
Roy’s Red Cross efforts that began in Brooklyn, NY grew to vast responsibilities as National Deputy Director of Disaster Services. From that post, his duties benefited people ranging from flood victims in Alaska, clergy and participants in the March to Selma and families of Cuban political prisoners exchanged for US medical supplies provided by the American Red Cross. Roy retired from the Red Cross in 1982.
He then gained a new assignment working part time in Communications Administration Department of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a Senior Environmental Employee (SEE.) He revised or re-wrote information that ensured readers could readily understand EPA regulations and other information. After working at the EPA for 23 years, he retired in 2007. Roy authored several books and short stories.
A memorial service is scheduled for January 8, 2017 in Silver Spring, MD
Contact me if you want his wife’s address or email so you can send a card or note. Feel free to add your comments about Roy and his work to this posting.
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