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The Associated Press via ABC News
A fire that started in a rural community in Northern California underscored a new reality in the state when days later it suddenly roared through neighborhoods on the edge of the city of Redding: Urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to wildfires.
In the last year, neighborhoods in the Northern California wine country city of Santa Rosa and the Southern California beach city of Ventura have been devastated.
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Governing
The death toll from the state's wildfires continued to mount Sunday, with eight fatalities now reported from blazes burning in Shasta County and near Yosemite National Park.
In Mariposa County, where firefighters have spent weeks battling the Ferguson fire, officials reported that a firefighter based at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks died after being struck by a falling tree.
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Digital Communities
The city of Bellevue, Washington, is cherishing small wins.
On Tuesday, the city celebrated the first bike lanes spanning the length of the downtown corridor with free rides on electric-assisted bicycles, helmet giveaways and a ribbon cutting. The project is modest: The three-quarters-of-a-mile bicycle lanes on both sides of 108th Avenue Northeast between Main Street and Northeast 12th Street are a test.
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Government Executive
In modern-day management, there’s a whole lot of hoopla around mission statements. Your mission should sit alongside unique values (see Mark Zuckerberg’s tips on that) that together offer a vision for a world changed, however narrowly, by whatever your company makes, sells, or promises.
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You can’t plan for a crisis while having one! We can all agree that “winging it” isn’t a successful plan, but relying on organizational charts for your internal FEMA claims crew may be just as unsuccessful. To identify the necessary traits, skills, and abilities ahead of a disaster, click here.
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FutureStructure
Pedestrians and drivers in Frisco will be among the first in Texas to see a strange and potentially startling sight: A van traveling beside them with no driver at the wheel.
On Monday, bright orange autonomous vehicles from Silicon Valley-based Drive.ai will begin rolling along streets near office buildings in Hall Park and shops and restaurants near The Star, the Dallas Cowboys’ headquarters.
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American Geophysical Union via ScienceDaily
An unlucky coincidence of space and Earth weather in early September 2017 caused radio blackouts for hours during critical hurricane emergency response efforts, according to a new study. The new research, which details how the events on the Sun and Earth unfolded side-by-side, could aid in the development of space weather forecasting and response, according to the study's authors.
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Emergency Management
This is the new normal: There are 15 serious wildfires burning throughout California, including one of the deadliest and most destructive in the state’s history.
Firefighters this month have been laboring under triple-digit temperatures and dry conditions to gain control over fires that have burned indiscriminately through residential neighborhoods, rolling hills and steep, forested terrain.
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Route Fifty
The National Association of Attorneys General’s new president announced that active crisis management will be the focus of his year-long tenure.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry’s presidential initiative encompasses disaster preparation and response to “devastating acts of God and man-made catastrophes” — mass shootings, natural disasters and cyberattacks among them.
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