FEMA Emergency Mgmt Higher Education Project

Latest FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project Report

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The latest FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project Report contains the following:
- Catastrophe Readiness and Response College Course Development Project
- Department of Homeland Security, Terrorism, Homeland Security, FEMA
- Homeland Security
- “September 10 Mentality” – Added to Guide to EM & Related Terms and Definitions Today
- Student Presentations During the FEMA EM Hi-Ed Conference, June 2-5, 2008
- Graduate Student Presentation Manager
- Un-responded to Email Backlog

More info at http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/edu/

FEMA releases Jan 2008 version of NIMS-IRIS

"As part of our Nation’s efforts to strengthen resource management in line with the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Incident Management Systems Division developed the NIMS Incident Resource Inventory System (NIMS-IRIS) tool to assist emergency responders with inventorying resources. The software allows emergency responders to enter resources based on FEMA typed and user defined types. Users can select specific resources for mutual aid purposes based on mission requirements, the capability of resources, and response time."

Retrieved From: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=2694

NRF training course available: "IS - 800 b"

A new version of FEMA's IS-800 independent study course (the one on the National Response Plan) is now available. IS-800b is now available to train the country's responders on the new National Resposne Framework.

Press release here:
http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/48742369_fema-releases-line-training-course-national-respon

New course can be found here:
http://www.training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/IS800b.asp

FEMA 2007 year in review

See a MediaWire press release in the "FEMA Year in Review: 2007"

Upon first glance, this looks largely like a self-congratulatory list of achievments
but there appear to be some data nuggets within for folks who like numbers.

http://media-newswire.com/release_1060107.html

2007 FEMA Assistance to Firefighters Grant Awards are out

Another round of awards were released over/around the holidays (see what you miss when you take time off to be with your family!) ...

http://www.firegrantsupport.com/afg/awards/07/Default.aspx

Have fun. Its sortable in all sorts of ways and there is even a link to thne Excel spreadsheet of all this data. Looks like Baltimore FD gets the biggest largest award at 1.4 million. But Pennsylvania gets the most $$ of any state, with 358 localities getting just under $32 million.