USDA and FEMA Coordinate to provide Rural Development Grants to 26 Kentucky Rural Counties. April 7, 2023

 

https://www.rd.usda.gov/contact-page/kentucky-contacts

Seminar: Disaster Preparedness and Response April 21, 2023

 

https://ehsrc.public-health.uiowa.edu/event/zoom-seminar-disaster-preparedness-and-response-opportunities-for-a-community-engaged-approach/

 

Jackie Curnick, MDP (she/her/hers)

Program Coordinator, Community Engagement Core

The Environmental Health Sciences Research Center

UI College of Public Health

jacqueline-curnick@uiowa.edu

public-health.uiowa.edu/ehsrc/

Over 18,000 cows die in Texas dairy farm blaze

 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/over-18000-cows-die-texas-dairy-farm-blaze-2023-04-13/

April 13 (Reuters) - More than 18,000 cows died after an explosion and fire at a family dairy farm in west Texas, marking the deadliest such barn blaze on record in the United States.

Firefighters rescued one employee from the South Fork Dairy near Dimmitt on Monday as flames raced through a building and into holding pens, according to images and statements from the Castro County Sheriff's Office.

The cause of the fire was under investigation and it was not immediately possible to contact members of the family who own the farm in one of Texas' biggest milk production counties.

The blaze prompted calls from the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), among the oldest U.S. animal protection groups, for federal laws to prevent barn fires which kill hundreds of thousands of farm animals each year.

There are no federal regulations protecting animals from the fires and only a few states, Texas not among them, have adopted fire protection codes for such buildings, according to an AWI statement.

The blaze was the most devastating U.S. barn fire involving cattle since the AWI began tracking such incidents in 2013. Around 6.5 million farm animals have died in such fires in the last decade, most of them poultry.

Reporting By Andrew Hay in Taos, New Mexico; Editing by Daniel Wallis

 

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Rudy Arredondo

President/CEO/Founder

Latino Farmers & Ranchers International, Inc.

1231-B Good Hope Road, S. E.

Washington, DC 20020

The Last Poets - Understand what black is Are you uncomfortable? Why?

 The Last Poets & Metropole Orkest

50th Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, De Doelen, 13th June 2019

"Tell me something I don't know." Racial disparities are working against disaster recovery for people of color. Climate change could make it worse

 Only 'comfortable' organizations interviewed.

BEMA International

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/us/racial-disparities-disaster-recovery-iyw-rd/index.html   Racial disparities are working against disaster recovery for people of color. Climate change could make it worse By Lauren Lee, CNN Updated 4:55 PM EDT, Fri April 14, 2023 (CNN) People of color in the US face heightened risks of harm from climate-induced disasters. Now, non-profits are pushing to remedy that disparity with more equitable approaches to disaster preparedness, response and recovery. “Until we really address the root issues of climate injustice, we’re going to continue to see a disproportionate impact as it relates to disasters in Black and historically excluded communities,” said Abre’ Conner, Director of Environmental and Climate Justice for the NAACP. The unequal toll of climate disasters  A report by the EPA’s Office of Atmospheric Programs looked at four vulnerable social groups: people living on low-income, racial minorities, those with no high school diploma, and seniors over age 65. Of those four groups, the study found minorities are most likely to live in areas projected to be impacted by climate change. Moreover, Black people are 40% more likely than non-African-Americans to live in areas with the highest projected increases in mortality rates due to changes in extreme temperatures. It’s a dire warning for the future, based on an inequitable past. Many marginalized people, Black in particular, have faced socioeconomic factors that relegate them to living in environmentally hazardous areas or substandard housing structures. So, when a natural disaster hits, they are ill-equipped to withstand the impact. That was the situation this past March 24 when a severe tornado leveled much of the Black-majority rural town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, killing 26 people. Racial disparities existed in Rolling Fork for decades. Many residents there were poor, had low access to information or internet service, were priced out of insurance coverage, and lived in mobile homes that weren’t retrofitted to withstand severe weather conditions. With the nearest tornado shelter over 15 miles away, it set the perfect storm to leave people displaced and scrambling for aid and assistance, which was very slow to arrive. READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT:      https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/us/racial-disparities-disaster-recovery-iyw-rd/index.html

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