LATEST general disaster recovery news HEADLINES

2008 Hurricane Preparedness Week
Will be held May 25th through May 31st.
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•Date: 13th May 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Major disasters declared in the US

Oklahoma
Severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding during the period of April 9-28, 2008.
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9768

Maine
Severe storms and flooding beginning on April 28, 2008, and continuing.
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9767

Mississippi
Severe storms and flooding beginning on March 20, 2008, and continuing.
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9766

•Date: 13th May 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Huge earthquake causes extensive damage and loss of life in Sichuan, China
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has caused major infrastructure damage and killed many people in the south-western Chinese province in Sichuan. The earthquake occurred 92 km northwest of the city of Chengdu in eastern Sichuan province and over 1500 km from Beijing, where it was also strongly felt.
•Date: 7th May 2008• Region: SE Asia •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Florida governor declares wildfire emergency
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has declared a state of emergency as wildfires fed by drought conditions threatened homes and businesses in two eastern counties. Read the CNN story
•Date: 13th May 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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New study shows high threat of big California quake
California has more than a 99 percent chance of having a magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquake within the next 30 years, according to scientists using a new model to determine the probability of big quakes.
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•Date: 9th May 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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UK remains under-prepared for flooding, warns EFRA Select Committee
The infrastructure to deal with last year’s floods was, and still is, in an ‘unclear and chaotic state’.
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•Date: 9th May 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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UK entering a ‘flood-rich’ period
Britain must prepare for more floods; but recurring long-term weather patterns rather than climate change may be the cause.
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•Date: 7th May 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Disaster recovery
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Major disaster declared for Oklahoma
FEMA has announced that a major disaster exists in the state of Oklahoma and that Federal aid will be made available to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding during the period of March 17-23, 2008. Justin A. Dombrowski has been named as the federal coordinating officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area.
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9746
•Date: 7th May 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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SBA honors outstanding disaster recovery efforts
Phoenix Awards presented.
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•Date: 24th April 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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IAEM and NACo raise post-disaster funding issue
IAEM and NACo write to the US House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
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Date: 22nd April 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Queensland Government upgrading disaster monitoring
Permanent 24/7 disaster watch to be introduced.
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•Date: 22nd April 2008• Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Dubai Bank opens state-of-the-art disaster recovery centre
Dubai Bank has announced that is has implemented a state-of-the-art disaster recovery site for its core banking systems. The site is located 100 km away from the primary data centre and forms an integral part of Dubai Bank's business continuity plan. Faizal Eledath, chief information officer of Dubai Bank, explained the considerations behind choosing the site: “We had to look at the availability of different power grids, the distance from the primary data centre, and insulation from critical environmental factors such as seismic activity, floods, etc. Through the utilization of best-of-breed recovery technology and institutionalizing a full-fledged recovery process we have further secured our business critical data assets from natural disasters.” Source: http://www.ameinfo.com
•Date: 22nd April 2008• Region: M.East •Type: Briefing •Topic: Financial sector BC
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Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reviews FEMA disaster readiness
Agency has made moderate improvements but is not yet ready for a catastrophe.
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•Date: 4th April 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Marsh launches business insurance product to address windstorm exposures
Marsh has announced it has launched a parametric insurance product to address financial exposures faced by businesses due to hurricane-force winds.
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•Date: 31st March 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared for Arkansas
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Arkansas to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding beginning on March 18, 2008, and continuing. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9566
•Date: 31st March 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared for Missouri
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Missouri to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and flooding beginning on March 17, 2008, and continuing. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9548
•Date: 20th March 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared for Missouri
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Missouri to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe winter storms and flooding during the period of February 10-14, 2008. The action makes federal funding available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe winter storms and flooding in Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Christian, Douglas, Greene, Madison, Mississippi, Ozark, Reynolds, Scott, Shannon, Stoddard, Texas, Wayne, Webster, and Wright Counties. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9506
•Date: 13th March 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared for Illinois
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the state of Illinois to help people and communities recover from the effects of severe storms and flooding during the period of January 7, 2008 and continuing. FEMA Director David Paulison said the assistance was authorized under a major disaster declaration issued for the state of Illinois by President Bush. The President's action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in Iroquois and Livingston counties.
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9486
•Date: 11th March 2008• Region:US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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EU to strengthen disaster response preparedness
The European Commission has adopted a communication on reinforcing the European Union's disaster response capacity.
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•Date: 6th March 2008• Region:W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Queensland government meets with insurers to discuss flood recovery
The Queensland State Government's Flood Recovery Taskforce has met with insurance company chiefs to discuss issues surrounding the recovery effort in Central Queensland.
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•Date: 6th March 2008• Region:Australia •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Lieberman calls on FEMA to improve programs for responding to psychological consequences of disasters
US Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., has endorsed the findings of a Government Accountability Office report released last Friday which determined that FEMA must improve its crisis counseling program for victims of catastrophic disasters.
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•Date: 6th March 2008• Region:US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Supercomputer models 9.0 megaquake in Pacific Northwest
Seattle shown to be the city most at risk from any future Cascadia Subduction Zone megathrust earthquake.
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•Date: 28th February 2008• Region:US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared for Kentucky
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the commonwealth of Kentucky to help people and communities recover from the effects of severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, and flooding during the period of February 5-6, 2008. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9405
•Date: 22nd February 2008• Region:US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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FEMA Region I announces first federal preparedness coordinator
FEMA has announced the selection of Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG (Retired) as FEMA Region I's (New England) first Federal Preparedness Coordinator (FPC). The FPC position is a newly created role that is ‘emblematic of FEMA's acknowledgment of and renewed emphasis on establishing and maintaining relationships with state, federal and tribal partners’. FEMA has designated one FPC for each of its ten regions.
•Date: 22nd February 2008• Region:US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Flood assistance extended for 80 Queensland local government areas
The Queensland Government has activated assistance for a further four local government areas in central Queensland, taking the total number of shires where flood support has been triggered this year to 80 shires.
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•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Business resumption safety tips from the American Society of Safety Engineers
To help businesses resume operations safely after a natural disaster, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) has written a business resumption checklist.
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•Date: 8th February 2008• Region:US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared for Arkansas
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the state of Arkansas to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding beginning on February 5, 2008, and continuing. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9345
•Date: 8th February 2008• Region:US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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FEMA responds to support communities struck by tornadoes
FEMA is coordinating with state and local officials in response to severe thunderstorms that have spawned dozens of tornadoes in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee and are currently moving into Kentucky. http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=42479
•Date: 7th February 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared for Hawaii
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Hawaii to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, high surf, flooding and mudslides during the period of December 4-7, 2007. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9325
•Date: 7th February 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared for Indiana
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the state of Indiana to help people and communities recover from the effects of severe storms and flooding during the period of January 7, 2008, and continuing. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9265
•Date: 31st January 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Federation of Small Businesses help available for flood-affected UK small businesses
Disaster recovery finance is available.
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•Date: 23rd January 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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California flood risks are 'disaster waiting to happen'
According to University of Maryland engineers.
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•Date: 18th January 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Partnership aims to advance US disaster management
American Society of Civil Engineers and International Association of Emergency Managers sign new Memorandum of Cooperation.
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•Date: 18th January 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Flood assistance extended to almost half of Queensland
The Queensland Government has activated disaster assistance for a further six local government areas, now making relief available to almost half of the State. Acting Emergency Services Minister Andrew Fraser said activating the joint State-Commonwealth funded Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements to Cook, Croydon, Etheridge, Flinders, McKinlay and Richmond Shires meant assistance was now available for 40 shires. Mr Fraser said the latest extension of disaster assistance followed damage assessments to public infrastructure as a result OF heavy rain and associated flooding from the monsoonal low.
•Date: 18th January 2008• Region: Australia •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Repeat of the 1998 ice storm could generate up to $3 billion in insured losses
According to RMS 10-year retrospective report.
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•Date: 15th January 2008• Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared for Nebraska
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Nebraska to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by a severe winter storm during the period of December 10-12, 2007. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9245
•Date: 15th January 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Further assistance announced for flood-affected areas of Queensland
Queensland Treasurer and Acting Emergency Services Minister Andrew Fraser has activated financial assistance for 11 local government areas in the Whitsunday region and Queensland's northern areas affected by flooding. Mr Fraser said assistance is now available through the joint State-Commonwealth Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements (NDRRA) for the 11 local government areas of Bowen and Whitsunday as well as Burdekin, Cairns, Cardwell, Eacham, Atherton, Johnstone, Townsville, Thuringowa and Mareeba. This announcement followed an earlier one, which stated that NDRRA had been activated for the local government areas of Aramac, Diamantina, Ilfracombe, Jericho, Winton, Barcaldine, Flinders, Isisford and Longreach as a result of severe storms and associated flooding from 22 to 30 December. Assistance for the west follows declarations for several flood-affected areas including the Gold Coast, Logan, Beaudesert and Boonah, Clifton, Stanthorpe and Warwick on the Darling Downs, Cooloola in the Sunshine Coast area and northern areas including Cairns, Johnstone, Cardwell, Mareeba, Atherton and Eacham.
•Date: 11th January 2008• Region: Australia •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared for Nevada
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the state of Nevada to help people and communities recover from the effects of severe winter storms and flooding beginning on January 5, 2008, and continuing. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9225
•Date: 10th January 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared for Iowa
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Iowa to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by a severe winter storm during the period of December 10-11, 2007.
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9206
•Date: 8th January 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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President declares major disaster for Missouri
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Missouri to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe winter storms beginning on December 6, 2007, and continuing. FEMA Administrator David Paulison said the assistance was authorized under a major disaster declaration issued for the state by President Bush. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9185
•Date: 3rd January 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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