Disaster Preparedness

Disaster Preparedness

This is a Wikizine dedicated to disaster preparedness, emergency preparedness, disaster recovery, severe weather and other related topics. This wikizine was started by Keith Erwood who is an expert on the subject.

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Helping mid-sized organizations ensure business continuity. Controlling costs and making the best use of scarce resources is critical for the success of mid-sized organizations. To minimize costs it is important to look for business continuity solutions that integrate with and help optimize existing infrastructures, and which can deliver positive business value – increasing productivity, generating competitive advantage or eliminating business risk. Business continuity is not an end in itself but the key to improving performance. This brief explains how Oracle solutions for mid-sized organizations contribute by providing a secure, easily accessible, and always available information infrastructure that's also simple and cost-effective to manage. Request ... Read Full Story
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Children play a part in many of our lives. Protecting them becomes an important issue in daily life as well as in an end of the world as you know it moment. However, what happens when adults can’t be there to protect them? What happens when they may need to protect us?             Our government and even many schools across the country, as well as parents and other adults, often do not see the potential in children. I am not talking about the educated potential one might find in the youth of a suburban school, but the potential to rise to the occasion when ... Read Full Story
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There is often a good deal of attention paid to the accumulation, storage and usage of critical supplies performed in the process of preparation, but one thing I rarely see discussed is proper management of your carefully gathered inventory before, during or after a critical event comes into being.  It's important to consider viewing your family or team as a quasi business entity and recognize that one of the top cited reasons for small business failure is poor inventory management.  Inventory issues can cause nightmarish headaches for any business, and the consequences for your family will only be magnified if you do not begin to view ... Read Full Story
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In the days following a societal collapse, there will be some people who will be on the move from where the problems exist to where they hope safety lies. There can be many reasons why people are on the move, and an equal number of reasons why someone else may wish to stop your progress. Getting on the move and out of a hostile area as early as possible in the wake of a collapse is a significant key to one’s survival, as well has having buddies to cover you during your travel. The sooner you get on the road, the less your chances ... Read Full Story
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When hurricanes and other natural disasters strike, it can be very stressful to try and find out if family members and friends are safe and sound. Today's FoxRad Hurricane Briefing guest has designed an innovative website to ease that stress and help keep everyone connected. Alvin Brown, Jr is the creator of wearesafeandsound.com. This website is a free service which provides a platform to communicate an important message to multiple people with one phone call. Mr.Brown explains all the details in today's briefing. View the remainder of Hurricane Briefing for August 20, 2009 Read Full Story
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About the video: NationalGeographic wrote: More than 1000 tornadoes touch down in the US every year. When most people are running away, one team of scientists heads straight for the action. See All National Geographic Videos video.nationalgeographic.com Read Full Story
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About the video: SquallLion wrote: 2002 © No One Lives forever 2 : a spy in a H.A.R.M's way - FOX / MONOLITHcut scene Read Full Story
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About the video: TornadoVideosdotnet wrote: INSANE video from inside the powerful Aurora, Nebraska tornado on June 17, 2009. The tornado intensified right on top of the TornadoVideos.net SRV Dominator, and the window was blown out as an intense mini suction vortex passed over the vehicle. A 138.8 mph wind gust was measured by the roof anemometer as the window blow out. Check out Storm Chasers on Discovery Channel this Fall for the video of the glass slamming into our faces. Read Full Story
As we enter hurricane season, it is time to remember that Hurricane Katrina was not the hurricane to end all hurricanes. There will be more hurricanes and earthquakes and wildfires and tornados that, with no warning, will cause more widespread ...  
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Disaster Preparedness for Child Welfare Agencies (PDF; 491 KB) Source: Annie E. Casey Foundation This guide by the Annie E. Casey Foundation offers step-by-step recommendations and a compilation of resources to assist child welfare agencies with disaster preparedness. Packaged with a companion CD version, the guide is helpful for developing or revising an agency’s disaster preparedness [...]  
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Conducting exercises is an important part in the emergency management process. An untested plan can fall short of its goals. Cambria County, Pennsylvania used a flu clinic to test their Pandemic Response Plan.Contributor: Bruce ZiebarthPublished: Nov 05, 2009  
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A mock disaster scenario will be issued Wednesday to Madison County first responders who will put their emergency preparedness skills to the test.The annual community-wide exercise will begin at 7:45 a.m. at Clark-Moores Middle School.Madison County Emergency Management Agency/Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (EMA/CSEPP) personnel will be working with representatives from the Blue Grass Army Depot, Pattie A. Clay Regional...  
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2009 semiconductor sales are down from 2008 by nearly record amounts, but they’re improving. That’s the latest word from the Semiconductor Industry Association which said today that global chip sales rose in September from the previous month — the seventh-straight month of gains.  
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Yuba City Red Cross offers preparedness class The Three Rivers Chapter American Red Cross is offering a personal emergency preparedness class Wednesday. Free and open to the public, the class is from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at 2125 E. Onstott Road, Yuba City....  
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COURTESY PHOTOParker County Assistant Emergency Management Coordinator Janice Stroud looks oversees as Parker County Community Emergency Response Team members are assigned duties during an Emergency Management Training Exercise held at Lake Mineral Wells State Park recently.  
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Where I live, seven miles from the San Andreas Fault in California, we just passed the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, which devastated some areas of towns near where I live. As if that weren't reminder enough of the importance of emergency preparedness, last Tuesday we got almost 11 inches of rain from the remnants of a Pacific typhoon! We lost power and phone service for most of the day. Good reminders of how important it is...  
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CareFusion today announced it is shipping more than 3,900 CareFusion LTV® 1200 ventilators ordered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be included in the strategic national stockpile.The CDC ordered a total of 4,500 LTV® 1200 ventilators for the strategic national stockpile, which is the nation's reserve ...(294 words)  
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It was in the web briefing yetserday, but my eyes nearly popped out of my head when I finally read "New Orleans mayor learns about disaster response in Cuba." So one day after President Obama is in the Big Easy, Mayor Ray Nagin heads off to Cuba to learn about disaster preparedness? What does the Cuban government possibly have to teach us? Here's the Cuban disaster-preparedness plan in a nutshell: Kill off the private economy for 50 years so...  
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Good morning We’ve got a pretty good storm going right now across the Central U.S. that will bring nasty weather from the Great Lakes down into the southern plains today.   A tornado watch is up for parts of eastern Texas into western Louisiana, and there have been several tornado warnings already for this region.  The other [...]  
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Who said I can’t post a positive story about  Mission Viejo, the city in which I live in? Exactly one year ago Mission Viejo City Council candidate Cathy Schlicht attended the Walk Against Drugs and stopped at the South County Emergency Preparedness booth adjacent to the Norman P. Murray Community Center. Realizing that the 2007 Santiago Canyon fire [...]  
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Thurston County will host a class on neighborhood preparedness at 6 p.m. Oct. 21 at the county's McLane-Black Lake Fire Station at 125 Delphi Road N.W. The class also will be offered at 6 p.m. Oct. 22 at the county's East Olympia Fire Station, No. 6, at 8047 Normandy S.E.  
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A United Nations official who recently viewed the aftermath of the destructive tsunami in the Pacific Ocean says better disaster preparedness is necessary. Jordan Ryan, assistant administrator of the U.N. Development Program, said Thursday that ...  
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gaps to be filled. At least 1,100 people have been killed, with thousands more feared dead, in Indonesia after earthquakes struck off Western Sumatra and the city of Padang on 30 September. On 29 September, the Pacific islands of Samoa, American Samoa  
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