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Los Angeles Times
The death toll rose to 23 from the rapidly spreading firestorm in California wine country as officials issued more evacuations Thursday morning across the region.
With winds picking up, it was a tense night and early morning with an army of firefighter worked to keep the flames away from communities. Red-flag fire warnings were in place through Thursday afternoon.
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Government Technology
Government technology leaders have set their sights on forging dedicated cybersecurity facilities and initiatives. Maine’s state CIO chairs the Information Protection Working Group. New Jersey has its Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell, while the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center continues to break new ground in cybercollaboration.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Blood loss is the leading cause of preventable death during an active shooter or intentional mass casualty event where a medical response is delayed. To educate the public — who often find themselves on the front line in emergency situations — a team led by a trauma surgeon from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and EMS from University Hospital are directing the largest Stop the Bleed campaign in the state, teaching laypeople basic skills of hemorrhage control for immediate, on-the-scene care.
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Homeland Security News Wire
The devastating hit Houston took from Hurricane Harvey has exacerbated — and highlighted — the enormous financial jam facing the National Flood Insurance Program. Thanks to the recent onslaught of hurricanes hitting Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, there has never been a greater need for the program.
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Future Structure
How many traffic fatalities is too many? If you’re a Vision Zero city, the answer is one.
Started in Sweden in 1997 with the goal of eliminating fatalities and severe injuries from traffic collisions, the Vision Zero initiative has since spread to more than 25 U.S. cities. These cities have committed themselves to eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries and have put in place local Vision Zero plans that establish a strategy for doing so.
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Campus Safety
Hospitals hold a unique place in the planning for public health emergencies. Not only do they have to continue to function during such critical situations, but patient surges could occur. If proper planning and consideration are not given to security and traffic control issues, such events can drastically impact a healthcare facility, creating chaos and disrupting the hospital’s ability to provide much needed medical care for the community.
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Domestic Preparedness
Flooding results from three primary forces: rainfall, coastal storm surge and rising sea level, made even worse with by runoff and extreme tides. Recently, hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria showcased the new environmental conditions the world faces as well as the devastating damage that can occur when any combination of these flood types converges on a built community constructed without adequately addressing the increasing threats.
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Emergency Management
Long before Florida entered the deadliest hurricane season in a decade, auditors at the state’s Division of Emergency Management warned what the state was ill-prepared for a major disaster.
An annual audit completed in December 2016 by the agency’s inspector general detailed a lengthy list of deficiencies needed to prepare and respond to a hurricane. Among them: Food and water supplies at the distribution center in Orlando were inadequate.
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The Hill
The government’s disaster preparedness agency has failed to map flood risks in U.S. communities in a timely manner, leaving many vulnerable homeowners with a false security that they don’t need flood insurance, the Homeland Security Department’s internal watchdog warns.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has delayed decisions on flood zone determinations — in some cases by two years or more — and currently has more than 240 mapping projects on hold, the department's inspector general warned in a report dated Sept. 27.
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Route Fifty
As Hurricane Opal ambled its way up the Gulf of Mexico during the first week of October 1995, the National Hurricane Center predicted the Category 1 storm would make landfall somewhere between Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach in the Florida Panhandle as a Category 2 hurricane.
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