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Wed, 2013-02-27 19:46 — mdmcdonald
This working group focuses on Emergency Management at the community, city, county, and state levels

The Emergency Management Working Group's mission is to maximize emergency preparedness through education, identification, resolution, and introduction:  Educate residents on what emergencies may take place and how to prepare for them, identify gaps in preparedness and resolve them, and introduce residents to their local police, fire departments, and medical facilities.

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admin Albert Gomez DavidMcDougal Kathy Gilbeaux mdmcdonald MDMcDonald_me_com
Rebekah Dickinson Shari Holbert
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emergency-management-sfl@m.resiliencesystem.org

Resilience Hubs White Paper - Shifting Power to Communities and Increasing Community Capacity

Tue, 2018-08-28 18:08 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CLICK HERE - Resilience Hubs White Paper - Shifting Power to Communities and Increasing Community Capacity (10 page .PDF document)

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Summary

Resilience Hubs are community-serving facilities augmented to:

1.  support residents and

2.  coordinate resource distribution and services before, during, or after a natural hazard event.

They leverage established, trusted, and community-managed facilities that are used year-round as neighborhood centers for community-building activities. Designed well, Resilience Hubs can equitably enhance community resilience while reducing GHG emissions and improving local quality of life. They are a smart local investment with the potential to reduce burden on local emergency response teams, improve access to health improvement initiatives, foster greater community cohesion, and increase the effectiveness of community-centered institutions and programs.

(CLICK HERE - READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Country / Region Tags: 
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Community
Emergency Management
Resilience
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Solutions

GRAND OPENING: Community Emergency Operations Center

Sun, 2018-08-26 10:01 — Kathy Gilbeaux
Date: 
Saturday, September 1, 2018 - 12:00 to 13:30

Location

United States
31° 43' 41.4012" N, 148° 32' 6.5616" W
See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest

eventbrite.com - by Valencia Gunter

DATE AND TIME: Sat, September 1, 2018 - 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT

LOCATION: 670 NW 113th St - 670 Northwest 113th Street - Miami, FL 33168

Situation Report
Emergency Management

Grand Jury Reports - 2017 Fall Term – As Storm Clouds Gathered: The Preparation for and Aftermath of Hurricane Irma

Thu, 2018-08-02 15:35 — Kathy Gilbeaux

miamisao.com - Filed August 1, 2018

The Fall Term 2017 Grand Jury is releasing this report during Hurricane Season 2018, approximately one-and-a-half-months shy of the one year anniversary of Hurricane Irma making landfall in South Florida.  Based on information we received regarding the preparation for and the aftermath of Hurricane Irma’s impact on South Florida, this Grand Jury decided to conduct an investigation of this topic.

Grand Jury Reports - 2017 Fall Term – As Storm Clouds Gathered: The Preparation for and Aftermath of Hurricane Irma
(37 page .PDF document)
http://www.miamisao.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Grand-Jury-Fall-2017-Report-As-Storm-Clouds-Gathered-FINAL.pdf 

Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office - Grand Jury Reports
http://www.miamisao.com/resources/grand-jury-reports/

 

Country / Region Tags: 
US - SouthEast
General Topic Tags: 
Communication
Disaster Response
Emergency Management
Energy
Extreme Weather
Food
Housing / Shelter
Water
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

SunSmart Emergency Shelters Program

Sat, 2018-07-14 09:44 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

DeSoto Elementary School in Tampa, Florida.

cleanenergygroup.org - Multiple Locations, Florida

Beginning in 2012, in an effort coordinated by University of Central Florida’s (UCF’s) Florida Solar Energy Center in collaboration with the Florida Office of Energy, Florida’s SunSmart E-Shelter Program has equipped more than 100 public schools with small PV systems and batteries, which are sufficient to keep lights and electrical outlets operating during a grid-disrupting natural disaster.  This enables these schools to serve as self-powered places of refuge for communities across the state, providing emergency shelter for 100-500 people per site.

(CLICK HERE - READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

 

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US - SouthEast
General Topic Tags: 
Emergency Management
Energy
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Solutions
Situation Report

Florida Division of Emergency Management - County Emergency Management - Officials

Thu, 2018-07-12 10:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux
General Topic Tags: 
Emergency Management
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

Florida Division of Emergency Management - County Emergency Management
https://www.floridadisaster.org/counties/

List of Miami-Dade County Officials (with their contact information) . . . click on the link below, then click on the "Officials" tab
https://www8.miamidade.gov/global/agencies.page

Miami-Dade County - Evacuation Centers and Emergency Operation Center (EOC)

Mon, 2018-06-25 10:37 — Kathy Gilbeaux
General Topic Tags: 
Emergency Management
Housing / Shelter
Transportation
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

Evacuation Centers

Once an evacuation is announced, the list of open centers will become available on www.miamidade.gov or by calling 311. Emergency bus pick-up sites will be activated to provide transportation to and from the evacuation centers.

U.S. Disaster-Response Force Stretched Thin as Hurricane Season Starts

Wed, 2018-06-13 18:21 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

reuters.com - by Andy Sullivan - June 13, 2018

With the 2018 hurricane season already underway, FEMA is scrambling to hire more people who are willing to depart at a moment’s notice for assignments that can last months at a stretch.

Internal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show the agency's disaster-response force is understaffed by 26 percent. And as last year revealed, many of those who sign up don't always respond when needed.

The extraordinary string of domestic disasters in 2017 continues to weigh on the U.S. agency. With thousands of workers still out in the field, official figures show that 33 percent of FEMA’s disaster-response workforce is available for deployment, down from 56 percent at this time last year.

Some specialties are stretched especially thin: Only 13 percent of the workers who direct federal aid to pay for rebuilding costs after a disaster hits are currently available.

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Country / Region Tags: 
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Emergency Management
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem
Situation Report

Miami-Dade County - 2018 Official Hurricane Readiness Guide

Sat, 2018-06-02 17:57 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

miamidade.gov

Hurricane Season is from June 1 to November 30. Be sure to plan and prepare ahead of time.

CLICK HERE - Miami-Dade County - 2018 Official Hurricane Readiness Guide

 

Country / Region Tags: 
US - SouthEast
General Topic Tags: 
Emergency Management
Extreme Weather
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Other

Judge Rules Class-Action Suit Over FPL's Irma Outages Can Move Forward

Tue, 2018-05-22 17:54 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Florida Power & Light

miaminewtimes.com - by Jerry Iannelli - May 2, 2018

In the long, hot, powerless days after Hurricane Irma, Miamians grew all sorts of irate at Florida Power & Light, South Florida's largest electricity company. After sweltering for more than a week without power, a group of sweaty Miami-area residents sued FPL last year over the widespread outages after the storm.

Despite the fact that FPL says it spent more than $3 billion hardening its power grid after Hurricane Wilma hit in 2005, 4.4 million of the company's 4.9 million customers (about 90 percent) lost power during last year's hurricane despite the fact that Miami ended up avoiding sustained hurricane-force winds. In their class-action lawsuit against FPL, filed in county court September 26, the residents alleged the company misspent those storm-hardening funds.

(CLICK HERE - READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

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Country / Region Tags: 
US - SouthEast
General Topic Tags: 
Emergency Management
Energy
Grid
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

Community Groups Begin Work On Hurricane Plans For Low-Income Neighborhoods In Miami-Dade, Broward

Tue, 2018-04-24 16:20 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Volunteers with Koncious Contractors remove tree branches from a Little Havana home. After Hurricane Irma, many South Florida community groups deployed volunteers to low-income and disabled people with recovery.  NADEGE GREEN / WLRN

wlrn.org - by KATE STEIN & ALEXANDER GONZALEZ - April 23, 2018

Several South Florida nonprofits are launching five meetings to ensure equality in hurricane recovery efforts, continuing work that began after Hurricane Irma.

After the storm, some elderly people went days without ice or water. Some students who rely on free school lunches didn't have a way to eat. Volunteers and community groups stepped up to host barbecues, deliver supplies and help with tree removal.

Now the groups want to create preparedness plans that specifically meet the needs of low-income neighborhoods. They also want to push for more accountability from elected officials.

(CLICK HERE - READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

 

Country / Region Tags: 
US - SouthEast
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Community
Disaster Risk Reduction
Emergency Management
Extreme Weather
Resilience
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Solutions
Situation Report

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