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The state’s new Infrastructure Planning and Development Division has adopted cloud technology to help community governments navigate matching requirements, compliance and project delivery. -
After a teenager died in a flash flood last summer, the Town Council plans to install two sirens to make sure residents know to seek shelter in the face of a flood, tornado or hurricane.
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The CDC’s zombie campaign integrated the popularity of the living dead with emergency preparedness, and it’s still reaching new audiences. -
New session of Congress will consider Sandy emergency aid after outrage followed canceled vote.
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National report says that although significant progress has been made toward improving public health preparedness, persistent gaps remain.
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Ramsey, N.J., Mayor Christopher Botta says having predesignated warming stations and a text-message-based alert system are among the lessons learned from Sandy.
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From issues with preparedness messages to best practices for evacuating communities, Emergency Management looks back at the year’s most popular articles.
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A look at the state of the science — what we know and what we don’t know — about our ability to forecast natural disasters.
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Len Bundra, GIS director of the Toms River, N.J., Municipalities Authority, thinks creatively to help those in need.
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This will open up opportunities to find solutions that allow for faster, more efficient delivery of critical supplies once an incident happens.
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Ana-Marie Jones of the nonprofit organization Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters addresses why preparedness messages fall short and how to reach more citizens.
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The nationwide interoperable emergency network could be as far as 10 years away and require an additional $10 billion in funding.
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The FCC's narrowbanding mandate has government entities working to retool their two-way radio systems before the Jan. 1, 2013, deadline.
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The four big cellular carriers agree to start rolling out Text-to-911 service in 2013, with nationwide implementation the following year.
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New technologies could positively impact all phases of emergency management.
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Norfolk, Va.'s Web-based application made incident reporting more efficient and cut down the time it took to compile an assessment report in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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The District Response Task Force program provided out-of-state aid during Sandy, and despite some glitches, the concept worked well.
