Preparedness and Communications

The resiliency plan will focus on how critical infrastructure would continue to function post-disaster, e.g., the study could examine how a wastewater utility would continue operating if it lost its chlorine supplier.

“What’s working in our favor is we’re getting rain tonight,” Santa Barbara County Fire Capt. Daniel Bertucelli said. “It’s definitely going to affect our fire behavior. … It’s going to diminish the fire.”

State legislators in California plan to push for measures to require at least 72 hours of backup power at cell towers after phone and Internet service failed during widespread PG&E power outages.

Platforms will be placed at different levels to train in different scuba skills. Several vehicles such as cars and boats will be placed on the bottom of the pond to practice rescuing trapped passengers and using underwater airbags to float the vehicles back to the surface to assist tow truck companies.

Although more than 9,800 U.S. agencies are on board with the nationwide public safety communications platform FirstNet, a debate persists about the very issue that FirstNet is designed to solve: interoperability.

The council accepted a $10,279 Justice Assistance Grant for the Kalispell Police Department to purchase a satellite phone with pre-purchased minutes, a drone and a mobile data terminal. Also approved was a $182,000 bid for a new Ford F-450 Type I ambulance.

Sustained winds of 35 to 45 mph are expected to sweep across the dry vegetation of the North Bay mountains, East Bay hills and the Diablo range with gusts on peaks and ridges surpassing 60 mph.

The film, which is titled Code & Response, is part of a larger effort by IBM to help foster and support projects aimed at helping communities prepare for and recover from a global spike in natural disasters.

The university’s Sea Level Solutions Center in the Institute of Water and Environment received a grant from the Florida Building Code Commission to look at groundwater levels and consider sea level in building planning.

Among the changes is a provision that will re-designate the city's 500-year floodplain as the new 100-year floodplain, meaning that any structures built in those areas are at greater flood risk and will be subject to additional building regulations.

Heavy rain events of more than two inches have become more common, according to current data. Whether it’s because of climate change or not is up for debate, but what’s not is that mitigation is necessary.

"… I'm proud to see Nevadans working together to develop plans and initiatives while advocating for the funding and resources we need to prevent and recover from wild and rangeland fires.”

Water and warmth are key. Resources that may be on hand at home include hot water heaters that can offer an emergency supply of water, matches, lighters, and lint found in driers or vacuum cleaners to use as fire starter.

On Oct. 27, when PG&E switched off electricity to most of Marin, nearly 50 percent of the county’s cell phone transmission sites failed. The next day 57 percent of the cell sites were down in Marin.

The FEMA move comes a week after dozens of members of Congress worried about skyrocketing rates for their constituents pushed the agency to defer its planned rate restructuring — known as Risk Rating 2.0.