DHS. June 2015. National Infrastructure Quarterly Business Meeting.

http://www.dhs.gov/national-infrastructure-advisory-council

Meeting Information

The next NIAC Quarterly Business Meeting (QBM) will be held:

Tuesday, June 30, 2015, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EDT
The Auditorium (First Floor)
2451 Crystal Drive
Arlington, VA  22202

National Infrastructure Advisory Council

The National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) shall provide the President through the Secretary of Homeland Security with advice on the security of the critical infrastructure sectors and their information systems. The council is composed of a maximum of 30 members, appointed by the President from private industry, academia, and state and local government

CERT CON 2015. June 20-21, 2015. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD.

The Final Countdown to CERTCON 2015 Begins!

It’s hard to believe that June is just around the corner and that CERTCON 2015
 is only weeks away.  While the time has flown by, our team has been hard at
work to bring you a conference rooted in the concept of going
“Beyond Expectations.” 

You can expect to see a focus on foundational CERT […]

Register at:     http://certcon.org/registration/  

How Mark McEwen Came to be our Keynote Speaker

If you’ve recently visited the CERTCON 2015 website, read our Facebook, or
seen our latest Tweets, then you know that the keynote speaker for
CERTCON 2015 this June 20 and 21 will be the former CBS Early Show
weatherman and stroke survivor Mark McEwen.

Registration Opens!

Starting on March 1, 2015, all CERT-trained individuals, team members
and anyone else wanting to learn more about emergency management or
preparedness will be able to register for CERT conference, which will be
hosted by Montgomery County, MD CERT. The conference will be held in
Rockville, MD at the Universities at Shady Grove. The conference […]

Learn more

About CERTCON 2015

The Montgomery County (Maryland) Community Emergency Response Team 

(CERT) is sponsoring a two-day conference to provide advanced education 

and hands-on disaster preparedness training to CERT teams in the mid-Atlantic 

region and to provide an understanding of CERT capabilities to emergency 

management personnel, Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21, 2015.

WHEN:	Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21
WHERE:	Universities at Shady Grove Rockville, Maryland 20850
HOSTED BY:	Montgomery CERT Montgomery County, MD

Workshop. Hazard Mitigation Grants. Next location Atlanta, Georgia

     Are hazard mitigation grants available in your state, county, and community?

     Better to plan to reduce the effects of the hazards in your community (mitigation),            before they occur.  Plan for the resiliency and sustainability of your community. 

     BEMA

Hazard Mitigation Grant Workshop Scheduled

05/11/2015 08:34 AM EDT

ATLANTA—The Georgia Emergency Management Agency/Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will hold one workshop on June 10, 2015 to explain a hazard mitigation program that funds projects that reduce or eliminate damage from future disasters.

A portion of the federal funding made available for disaster response and recovery from the February winter storm is allocated for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP). 

The program provides grants to state and local governments to implement long-term hazard mitigation projects.

Support and promote water usage and purification in your community.

WATER.  One of the most essential compounds needed for all life.

Support and promote water conservation, and purification in your community, and support others throughout the world in the importance of water.

Remember only 1-percent of the water in the world is available for human consumption.

BEMA


http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/details_linked.asp?pid=8229





This photograph depicts a young Ghanaian woman holding a pipe filter that she wears draped on a cord about her neck. Pipe filters are individual filtration devices, similar to a straw, which allow people to filter their water to avoid contracting Guinea worm disease (GWD) while traveling or working in the field. Persons become infected by drinking water containing copepods (water fleas) harboring the infective stage larvae of Dracunculus medinensis. Once inside the body, the stomach acid digests the water flea, but not the larvae, which find their way to the small intestine, where they penetrate the wall of the intestine and pass into the body cavity. 

During the next 10 - 14 months, the Guinea worms mature to a full size adult 60 - 100cm (2 - 3ft) long, and as wide as a cooked spaghetti noodle. Adult worms mate inside the abdomen. After which, the male dies and the female worm migrates to the site where she will emerge, usually from lower limbs.

Provide communities with safe sources of drinking water (such as from borehole or hand-dug wells), or have existing dysfunctional ones repaired. Because Guinea worm disease (GWD) can only be transmitted through drinking contaminated water, educating people to follow these simple control measures can completely prevent illness and eliminate transmission of the disease:

- Prevent persons with an open Guinea worm ulcer from entering ponds and wells used for drinking water.

- Always filter drinking water, using a household cloth filter or pipe filter, to remove the water fleas which harbor the infective Guinea worm larvae.

- Treat unsafe sources of drinking water with an approved larvicide, such as ABATE®, that kills water fleas.

- Provide communities with safe sources of drinking water (such as from borehole or hand-dug wells), or have existing dysfunctional ones repaired.