More than 8‚500 firefighters were battling wildfires across the West yesterday‚ according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise‚ Idaho. The fire center went to Level Four status Monday for the first time this year after 37 new blazes burned across more than 300‚000 acres. Also Monday‚ the Western Governors’ Association and the Bush administration agreed to a 10-year national plan to prevent and suppress wildfires. It calls for the aggressive removal of brush‚ trees and debris
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Good evening Professor and class. As tasked by this week’s forum below you will find my assessment of QRC193 and how that relates to a given paradigm as well as identification of an associated risk with the case study and how I would mitigate it. First‚ let’s start with the background concerning Simmons and Sutter’s (2007) research paper. Simmons and Sutter’s research paper was prompted following the February 2007 tornadoes in Florida. Three tornadoes (two EF-3’s and one EF-1) spawned one after another
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The recent blizzard that crippled the East Coast and dumped more than two feet of snow across the region garnered the attention of national and international media outlets. Organizations like CNN and BBC provided special coverage of winter storm Jonas‚ focusing on the overall aftermath of the storm. Since the snowstorm impacted the entire coast‚ it would be more effective to draw attention to one specific town. I would choose to concentrate a report on Dumont‚ NJ‚ a small town in northern New Jersey
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In January 2010‚ an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude occurred nearby the capital city of Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti. As of June 2015‚ 103‚565 internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Haiti continue to live in camps established in the aftermath of the earthquake and‚ according to the United Nations‚ some 70‚000 of the remaining IDPs have no prospect of a durable solution (Human Rights Watch‚ World Report 2015: Haiti). Despite considerable IDP relocations since 2010‚ increasing violence against women and children
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When a tornado forms or passes over a water surface‚ it is called a waterspout. Like tornadoes‚ they form in many shapes and often occur in series or families. Measurements of tornadoes can be a few kilometers an hour to as high as 64 to 80 kilometers per hour. We should know what to do before‚ during‚ and after a tornado has hit our town. Tornados cause much damage and we people should be prepared before a tornado‚ during a tornado and what to do after a tornado. Before a tornado‚ we should listen
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The state of Florida is a vacation and retirement destination‚ with a record 94.7 million people visiting the Sunshine State in 2013 (Jackovics). However‚ south Florida is under an imminent threat that many people refuse to acknowledge. The sea level is rising‚ and southern Florida will be underwater by the end of the twenty-first century‚ unless major projects to save the land begin now (Parker). Unfortunately‚ because south Florida consists of a fair amount of reclaimed swampland and sits at or
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WEVA stands for Walcott Emergency Volunteers Association. Walcott has had a team of volunteers monitoring the sea since 1976 after the sea breached the defences and flooded properties on the sea front including the post office. They were known as Walcott Flood Wardens. Some of them were fishermen so were very familiar with how the weather conditions could cause major problems with the sea. Two of them are still flood wardens today. In 1997‚ the parish council decided that the flood wardens should
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When tornadoes hit‚ they can cause massive destruction to personal property or people who happen to be in its path. Today we’re going to talk about what to do to prepare your family for tornado weather. The two best things you can do are: Be informed. Listen to the local weather station‚ check Google for weather‚ or check the weather on your phone. Also‚ allowing severe weather alerts on your phone allows you to get tornado watch messages when the weather is turning and tornado warnings when a
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Hurricane Katrina On Saturday August‚ 27th 2005 President Bush was notified about the news on Hurricane Katrina while on vacation at his ranch in Crawford‚ Texas‚ and after hearing the news remained on his vacation and took no action to help aid the people of New Orleans (Dyson 63-64). When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans it was at a Category 5 hurricane. Many unnecessary lives were lost in the hurricane and in the events after the disaster hit. What was the reason for the extreme amount of
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Communication and Crisis Michelle Cato HCS/320 July 16‚ 2013 Diedra Sawyer Communication and Crisis Many of us know about the devastating hurricane Katrina that took place in New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ in 2005‚ but how many of us actually thought about the communication issues. From the writing of James L Garnett and Alexander Kouzmin‚” Hurricane Katrina was as much a communication disaster as it was a natural and bureaucratic disaster. Communication gaps‚ missed signals‚ information technology
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