Mitigation

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects a very active season that brings 23 named storms and 11 hurricanes — five of which could develop into major storms.

"You just pray your entire livelihood doesn't float off. The anxiety of that day is coming back. It was a very frightening thing to watch. We had just rebuilt our wharf, raising it over a foot.”

Leah Sautelet, emergency services manager in Northern California's Lake County, discusses what it takes to be an emergency manager, her biggest fears, and how young women and girls can get into the profession.

The simulated scenario utilized for the training exercise changes annually. Previous trainings have simulated floods, snowstorms, severe weather events, mass vaccination campaigns, and bus accidents inundating EMS and hospitals.

The funding will go toward modernizing the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis Ocean Observing System to make data more available and enable more accurate tsunami forecasting.

The report recommends that the university “create a mandatory active assailant training program for faculty and staff that includes general best practices and specific training based on the variety of cross-campus facilities."

Regulators will be adding new building requirements for construction in flood-prone areas, which would require structures to be built five feet higher than existing flood elevations established by FEMA.

As part of the preparedness exercise, Oregon emergency personnel will teach community leaders how to set up the evacuation assembly point equipment. Emergency supplies will be made available to coastal communities.

They are among 16 states and one Tribal Nation eligible for the federal funding, which will allow those entities to receive mitigation funding faster after a flood-related disaster.

Officials from the Department of Environmental Quality said that they are consistently monitoring air quality, especially during fire season because "the largest impacts to air quality are from wildlife smoke."

The University of the Virgin Islands Caribbean Green Technology Center has worked since 2020 with the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management agency and FEMA’s Office of Disaster Recovery developing the plan.

The Lake County Office of Emergency Services launched a one-stop public webpage for residents to obtain information on preparedness, response, and recovery from disasters, including how to make a plan and where to get alerts.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the plan aims to build domestic emerging tech strengths and collaborations with like-minded partners on international supply chains and global norms of safe and rights-respecting technology use.

One change is that the Forest Service released a plan to expand prescribed fire training and created a western prescribed fire training curriculum, which increases the pace of fire training qualifications.

The Chelsea School District outside Ann Arbor, Mich., is using a gun detection system that integrates existing cameras to visualize someone with a gun and immediately report it and key details to a monitoring center.

The Waterford Fire Department in Wisconsin, facing budget cuts, has applied for federal grants to purchase equipment and hire more firefighters. The department needs new breathing apparatuses to replace older ones.

The state requires investor-owned utilities to submit annual plans that provide a comprehensive overview of each utility's strategies for mitigating wildfire risk and keeping customers and communities safe.

The system will require a lot of expertise to operate. Currently, the trailer sits at the Public Works campus where staff from Public Works, Fire and Emergency Response departments will be trained on how to use the mini facility.