‘Our poor little town of Lytton is gone’: Village at center of Canada’s heat wave devastated by ‘catastrophic’ fires

New CRS Report: Climate Change, Slow-Onset Disasters,and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Report is 5 pp.

The wicked challenges of search and rescue at disaster sites like Champlain Towers

From an Israeli perspective: Miami condo collapse shows how the U.S. keeps getting disaster response wrong. When every minute is crucial to saving lives, our inability to mandate an instant call-up of resources across city and state lines is literally killing people.

From HSToday: Lessons Learned from the Aftermath of Disaster

HSToday is proud to present a multi-part series from Emmy award winning director Christopher Allan Smith, a survivor of the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, and documentary filmmaker. Following the fire, Smith took his talents and devoted them to helping others learn from the tragedy on the Paradise Ridge, and the impact of disaster on families, communities and the first responders and disaster planners whose responsibility it is to take these lessons into the future. This series, Lessons Learned from the Camp Fire, describes how preparedness plays out in reality: from running for your life away from the danger to emergency finances to the aftermath, told only like a survivor could share. HSToday presents this series to bring a voice to the victims of disaster and add some personal texture and experience to the impact of disasters, terrorism, and other tragic acts of violence.

From the NIH, this new site: Disaster Research Response (DR2) Resources Portal
A repository of data collection tools and related resources curated by the DR2 Program to empower human health research in response to disasters and public health emergencies.

Thanks to Dr. Lois Cohen for the citation.

From hstoday.us. Unifying Research: DHS S&T Hosts Virtual Whole-of-Government R&D Showcase. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is convening U.S. government research organizations for the Virtual Whole-of-Government R&D Showcase, a unique four-part virtual content series that kicks off today and will run through August. The showcase will highlight how S&T and its partners across government are mobilizing research and development (R&D) teams to reduce risks from natural and human-induced disasters; accelerating breakthrough discoveries; and helping the nation prepare against future threats and unknowns.

From the WashPost: FEMA pressed on historically high rejection rates for disaster survivors.

At a time of worsening natural disasters and with the Biden administration leaning more heavily on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to handle a host of crises, the head of the agency was called before Congress on Wednesday to explain to a key subcommittee why FEMA’s approval rates for disaster survivors who apply for help have fallen to historic lows.

From HSNW: Puerto Rico is Prone to More Flooding Than the Island is Prepared to Handle. Puerto Rico is not ready for another hurricane season, let alone the effects of climate change, according to a new study that shows the island’s outstanding capacity to produce record-breaking floods and trigger a large number of landslides.

From TheConversation: Managed retreat’ from climate disasters can reinvent cities so they’re better for everyone – and avoid more flooding, heat and fires