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
The world's nations need to work harder to safeguard citizens from disasters caused by climate change, a United Nations official said in New York. Emergency preparedness in Bangladesh and Cuba minimized the loss of life and destruction caused by an ...  
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FEMA had planned to simulate a nuclear explosion right on the Las Vegas Strip to test for emergency preparedness. But the plan is meeting a lot of opposition from all the key players, including Boyd Gaming, MGM Mirage, the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and the LVCVA.  
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Throughout history there has always been one thing that has never failed to unite the masses: fear. Fear is something we encounter on a regular basis, most recently with the H1N1 outbreak across Canada and all over the world. Though fear unites, it has also been known to have detrimental effects on the population; as the source of fear approaches, people begin to fend for themselves and their families - which sometimes happens at the expense...  
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The Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness is requesting that FEMA conduct a preliminary damage assessment for areas impacted by recent severe weather and flooding in North Louisiana.  
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UGL Unicco, a subsidiary of United Group Limited (UGL), today announced its UGL Unicco Flu Preparedness and Business Continuity Plan. It is a comprehensive set of procedures and cleaning services that are designed to help ensure the health and safety of customers' personnel, the public and UGL Unicco employees during flu events, up to and including pandemic events.  
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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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Worried about Kansas City's emergency plans for tornadoes, floods, and other disasters? The Mid-America Regional Council and the city of Kansas City will hold a public listening session tonight at the WWI Museum at Liberty Memorial to talk about the city's emergency preparedness plans.  
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The emergency preparedness team for Living Oaks Community Church will host a training seminar for people in the community from 9 to 11 a.m. Sat., Nov. 14 at the church, 1033 Business Center Circle, Newbury Park. The topic will be “Creating an Emergency Food Plan and Supplies.” read more  
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Minnesota's legal system updates its disaster preparedness By Matt Ehling | Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 In light of recent disasters such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, institutions across the nation have updated their emergency procedures. Minnesota's legal system is no exception to this trend, and it is taking a variety of steps to deal with disaster scenarios.  
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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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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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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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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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