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FEMA Mitigation Best Practices: Stilt Built Homes in Florida Keys Survive Storm
"A recreational vehicle (RV) park that was redeveloped into a modular-home condominium community with stilt-built homes has demonstrated the benefits of mitigation. During its decades-long existence, the character of the 22-acre oceanfront RV park in Key Largo, Florida, has gradually changed. The land is in a special flood hazard area. Residents had been constructing additions to RVs and permanent structures that did not comply with the county's zoning and flood restrictions."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FEMA Mitigation Best Practices: Medical Center Makes Peparedness Along with Patient and Employee Safety a Priority
"Mount Sinai Medical Center's main campus sits on a barrier island, separated from the mainland by three miles of Biscayne Bay. Its unique location puts the medical center in an area prone to flooding and hurricane damage. Budget limitations were a major consideration in solving the power outage problem. Finding a solution would require exploring grant opportunities available at FEMA. The county applied for Mitigation grant funding under the 5 Percent Initiative which considers funding projects that are difficult to pass the benefit-cost analysis. FEMA and Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) awarded the grant to Bayfield County in August 2013."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FEMA Mitigation Best Practices: Mitigation Project Equips Hospital in Handling Day-To-Day Operations During Power Outages
"Pensacola was hit hard after Hurricane Ivan barreled down on the Gulf Coast in September 2004 when the storm knocked out Sacred Heart Hospital's electricity. The hospital was forced to rely on emergency generators, but their capacity was not sufficient to supply the entire building with air conditioning. The hospital remained functional but at reduced capacity."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FEMA Mitigation Best Practices: Texas A&M University Collaborative Promotes Disaster Resilience for the Gulf Coast
"The destructive power of hurricanes, tropical storms and other natural disasters constantly pose a threat to life and property along the Gulf Coast of Texas. Texas A&M University's Community Resilience Collaborative (CRC) is a partnership between the university's Texas Sea Grant College Program and Texas Target Communities. CRC members recognized the need to prepare coastal communities for disasters."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FEMA Mitigation Best Practices: Wind Retrofit Project Helps Local Government Maintain Business as Usual
"Enhancements to an Indialantic [Florida] government building's storm resiliency have prevented interruptions to essential community services. Residents of Indialantic made the decision to protect a key government building from potential damage from storms. Once the building--which houses official records--was made safe, they were able to conduct business with the mayor, deputy mayor, town council, police department, comptroller and town clerk without disruption in services."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications: 16th International Conference, CARDIS 2017
Proceedings from the 16th International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications (CARDIS 2017), held in Lugano, Switzerland, during November 13-15, 2017: "The conference was organized by the ALaRI Institute on the campus of Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. CARDIS has provided a space for security experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas on security of smart cards and related applications. Those objects have been part of our daily life for years: banking cards, SIM [subscriber identity module] cards, electronic passports, etc. But the world is changing; the smartcard, as a secure element, is more and more often the hardware root of trust of bigger systems. Their applications and use cases are also increasing through M2M [machine to machine] and massive IoT [internet of things]. As such, smartcard security is key since the security of entire systems relies on it. With the growing use of smartcard technology, the attack surface is also increasing, from physical attacks to logical attacks, from local attacks to remote attacks. Combined attacks are also to be considered. It is more important than ever that we understand how smart cards, and related systems, can be secured."
Springer Publishing Company
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PrepTalks: Land Use Planning for Community Resilience [video]
"In his PrepTalk, Dr. Philip Berke explains how effective land use planning strengthens community resilience, through sharing research that shows 'preventative land use policies have the highest benefit-cost ratios and Community Rating System incentives, yet are the least used actions to reduce vulnerability and promote mitigation.' He is a Professor of Land Use and Environmental Planning at College Station, Texas A&M, and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Communities there. He co-authored 'Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy and Planning,' selected as one of the 100 Essential Books in Planning of the 20th century by the American Planning Association Centennial Great Books."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
Berke, Philip, 1951-
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Emergency Partners Information Connection (EPIC) [website]
"EPIC [Emergency Partners Information Connection] partners with a broad array of organizations to exchange information that helps people stay safer and healthier during a public health emergency. Through EPIC's partnerships, CDC can more effectively reach some of the people most vulnerable to public health threats."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Sessions 2 and 5 - Mass Casualty Surge Capacity
This is the Department of Homeland Security's emergency preparedness presentation on ensuring health care surge capacity.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
Phillips, Sally J.
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Sessions 1 and 4 - AHRQ Resources
This is the Department of Homeland Security's emergency response plan during biol
ogical terrorist attacks or other public health crises.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
Phillips, Sally J.
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Sessions 3 and 6 - Mass Prophylaxis
This is the Department of Homeland Security's emergency response guideline for responding to biological and/or chemical terror attacks in the United States.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
Phillips, Sally J.
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Mental Health: Responses of Katrina Evacuees
Brief description of community factors which seemed to contribute to a rapid, coordinated and successful response to Katrina evacuees. Some these lessons might be applicable in other disasters. Please Note: This record has been imported to the HSDL as part of the LLIS Consolidation project and has not yet been reviewed by HSDL staff. Some information may be incomplete, missing, or inaccurate. For more information on the LLIS Consolidation project, please see here: [http://www.hsdl.org/?llis]
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Gulf Storm Lessons Learned
"During the 2005 hurricane season, the devastating Gulf Coast storms stressed the information networks supporting civilian and military responders. During this period of crisis the new Area Security Operations Command & Control (ASOCC) system was extensively used to support preparedness and recovery operations and was one of the few systems that was widely usable to both civilians and military and allowed 'real time' exchange of information and status reporting. The experiences gained during these operations have generated significant 'lessons learned' for homeland defense and military operations in response to both natural disasters and terrorism. This is particularly true for the information systems that are needed to support such operations."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
Waitkus, Alan; Borden, John
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Emergency Management: Use of Standardized Incident Command System Forms
"Incident Command Post (ICP) personnel need to keep accurate and comprehensive records when operating at long-term incidents. ICP personnel should have available and be trained in the use of standardized Incident Command System (ICS) forms."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Incident Command: The Use of Identification Clothing
"Individuals with command authority at incident sites should be clearly identifiable to emergency responders. Such command visibility can be achieved through the use of brightly colored vests, arm bands, flags, or signs."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Incident Command System (ICS), Town of Cortlandt
ICS [Incident Command System], Overview of the basics for those without any formal training in ICS to be able to work within incident response and recovery where incident command is being utilized.
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)
Online tool to understand and map social vulnerability in the United States: "Social vulnerability refers to the resilience of communities when confronted by external stresses on human health, stresses such as natural or human-caused disasters, or disease outbreaks. Reducing social vulnerability can decrease both human suffering and economic loss. ATSDR's [Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry] Social Vulnerability Index uses U.S. census variables at tract level to help local officials identify communities that may need support in preparing for hazards, or recovering from disaster."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Instructor Guide: Weapons of Mass Destruction: Chemical - Vx Scenario
"The President of the United States has, through the issuance of Presidential Decision Directive 39 (PDD-39), assigned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) lead federal agency responsibility for consequence management of terrorism. As such, it is FEMA's responsibility to ensure that State and local response plans, procedures, policies, and capabilities are adequate and tested. The President's highest priority is to assist State and local government's efforts to develop effective capabilities for reducing and managing the consequences of terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). As part of its strategy to execute its mission, FEMA's Emergency Management Institute (EMI) has developed a series of courses, consisting of three sessions, which simulate the types of challenges faced by local communities following a WMD terrorist incident. The sessions are designed to help you analyze, discuss and identify your jurisdiction's needs. This course involves a chemical terrorism incident."
Emergency Management Institute (U.S.)
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Instructor's Guide: Weapons of Mass Destruction: Chemical - Sarin Scenario
"The primary purpose of this course is to improve the ability of local governments to prepare for, manage, and respond to mass casualty terrorism incidents involving the use of WMD [Weapons of Mass Destruction] - for this course, chemical terrorism."
Emergency Management Institute (U.S.)
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SLGCP Regional Conference Metropolitan Medical Response System Program (MMRS) [presentation]
"Supports local jurisdictions' enhancing and maintaining allhazards response capabilities to manage mass casualty incidents during early hours critical to life-saving and population protection, to include: 1 Terrorist acts using WMD/CBRNE 2 Large scale HazMat incidents 3 Epidemic disease outbreaks 4 Natural disasters."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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G&T Regional Conference 'Prevention and Deterrence Exercise Program' [presentation]
"To enhance the overall preparedness posture of the Nation by addressing the prevention and deterrence elements of the National Preparedness Goal and NIMS [National Incident Management System]. To increase levels of awareness and cooperation among Federal, State, and local (FSL) agencies and the private sector through a coordinated set of activities that build upon existing missions and goals. To improve the effectiveness of horizontal and vertical partnerships by encouraging the use of collaborative systems, common terms and definitions, and shared lessons learned and best practices."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Instructor Guide: Weapons of Mass Destruction: Nuclear Scenario
This document is intended as an instructor manual for emergency response providers. The primary purpose of this course is to improve the ability of, local governments to prepare for, manage, and respond to mass, casualty terrorism incidents involving the use of nuclear WMD.
Emergency Management Institute (U.S.)
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Session 4: Looking Forward to FY 2006 - the Grant Process [presentation]
"This document outlines FY06 PSG Overview, Process Enhancements, Planned Roles and Responsibilities, and Timeline.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Session 6: Emerging Security Procedures and Technologies [presentation]
This document is a presentation on emerging security procedures and technologies.
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Best Management Practices: Public-Private Partnership (New Jersey)
This document provides information on recent initiatives by the State of New Jersey to enhance government and private industry coordination regarding infrastructure resiliency programs.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Hurricane Harvey Response (HIFLD) [website]
"This site provides geospatial data from authoritative sources where possible that can be useful to support community response and recovery to Hurricane Harvey. The data is available for download as CSV, KML, Shapefile, and accessible via web services to support application development and data visualization."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Diabetes Care During Natural Disasters, Emergencies, and Hazards
This webpage from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers links to information about diabetes care during a disaster. "During natural disasters, emergencies, and hazards people with diabetes face particular challenges to their health care. If you are an evacuee or are in an emergency situation, it is of prime importance to identify yourself as a person with diabetes and any related conditions, so you can obtain appropriate care. It is also important to prevent dehydration by drinking enough fluids, which can be difficult when drinking water is in short supply. In addition, it is helpful to keep something containing sugar with you at all times, in case you develop hypoglycemia (low blood glucose). To prevent infections, which people with diabetes are more vulnerable to, pay careful attention to the health of your feet, and get medical treatment for any wounds."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Marine Corps University Journal [Spring 2013]
This Spring 2013 issue of the "Marine Corps University Journal" includes the following articles: "Stopping Atrocities: Field Commander's Moral Responsibility in Srebrenica and Rwanda" by Paolo Tripodi; "The Syrian Kurds: A House Divided" by Winston Harris; "Understanding Terrorism and the Islamist Challenge in the Maghreb" by Valentina Bartolucci; "Bridging the Gap: High-Level Policy Meets On-the-Ground Realities in Eastern Afghanistan" by Kathleen Reedy; and "Agnatic Rivalry, Social Instability, and Scapegoating: The Consequences of Integrating Pashtunwali with Afghan Formal Law" by Terri K. Wonder.
Marine Corps University (U.S.). Press
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AHRQ's Role in Public Health Role in Public Health Emergency Preparedness [presentation]
A presentation on AHRQ [Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality] objectives for the HHS [Health and Human Services] strategic framework.
United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Phillips, Sally J.
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Triage and Pre-Hospital Treatment Hospital Treatment TCL [presentation]
This presentation discusses emergency medical services, triage and related topics. LLIS Core Capability: Emergency Medical Services; Healthcare
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
