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By Brian Stack
 It is just another typical day at work for police officer Emmanuel "Manny" Fardella, a member of the Cheyenne Police Department in Wyoming. Fardella serves as the school resource officer at Cheyenne's South High School. His day, like many who serve in similar roles in schools across America, begins by being visible as kids first enter the school in the morning. He walks the halls, saying hello to staff and students, working to develop positive relationships.
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Business Insider
Earthquakes happen when there's a sudden release of energy from the Earth's outer shell, causing the surface to shake. They're measured on the Richter scale, which basically records what level the tremor was: enough to shake a few tiles off a roof, or sufficient enough to destroy the building altogether.
Earthquakes are a lot harder to monitor than volcanic eruptions, but some techniques are used such as laser beams to detect plate movement, or a seismometer to pick up the vibrations in the Earth's crust.
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Wildfires are getting bigger, more frequent and occurring during a larger portion of the calendar year. And new research suggests humans are largely to blame.
Researchers looked at records for every wildfire that required firefighting between 1992 and 2012. Of the 1.5 million blazes, humans were responsible for sparking 84 percent. Humans were also to blame for nearly half, 44 percent, of the acreage burned over the 20 years.
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Nextgov
The federal government is increasingly concerned with protecting the nation's power grid, both from intentional attacks and from natural disasters.
Between the Energy Department, the Homeland Security Department and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, there are at least 27 separate programs dedicated to shielding various aspects of the grid from physical and cyber breaches, but also from natural phenomena such as solar storms.
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By Catherine Iste
 Though terminations can be challenging, it is so much easier to fire a consistently poor performer than someone who is just a bad employee. Negative nellies, glory hounds and wimpy managers may not do anything wrong enough to have a bad performance review, so they end up staying around a lot longer than they should. In those cases, sometimes it is easier to avoid hiring these difficult-to-fire employees than it is to try to fire them.
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Route Fifty
All states are vulnerable to cyberattacks if even one ignores National Institute of Standards and Technology cybersecurity protocols, a framework only 20 of 35 states the National Governors Association surveyed have implemented.
The other 15 states are in the process of aligning with NIST.
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TNS via Emergency Management
San Jose, Calif., officials on Monday estimated the devastating Coyote Creek flooding caused at least $73 million in damage to public and private property, but that figure is expected to grow as officials wade through three ravaged neighborhoods.
“This is the first step in seeking potential state and federal emergency assistance,” said Dave Sykes, director of the city’s Emergency Operations Center. “I believe the number we have given is fairly conservative. It wouldn’t surprise me if these costs go up.”
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Nextgov
Unmanned aerial systems — more commonly referred to as drones — are becoming an integral technology for many federal agencies, yet perhaps no agency is as far along in drone use as the Interior Department.
The Interior Department is a steward for 500 million acres of federal land across the country and plays a critical role in disaster response, search and rescue and in containing wildfires, mitigating avalanches and monitoring volcanic eruptions.
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Natural Hazards Center
Most often talk of infrastructure investments focus on aspects firmly in the public eye — roads, bridges, transit, energy, and the like. Lower on the list is the wide-ranging and complex network of our nation’s dams; a system that could cost up to $65 billion to bring up to par.
That changed recently when extreme weather in the western United States created several big events that brought dam safety into the spotlight.
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CNN
Severe thunderstorms are leaving swaths of destruction for a second straight day in parts of the Midwest and Southeast after a string of tornadoes ripped through several states Tuesday.
At least three people were killed in Illinois and Missouri in Tuesday's storms. Others were injured and cars were left scattered on highways.
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