Emergency Preparedness And Response

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  Ryan McKay

  

  Tokyo stages first missile evacuation drill

  CNN

  Government officials in Tokyo are conducting the city's first missile evacuation drill to counter the nuclear threat from North Korea. CNN's Will Ripley reports.

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  Ryan McKay

  All 50 states vote yes on AT&T’s $40 billion emergency response network FirstNet

  yahoo.com - Danny Crichton

  From wildfires in California to hurricanes on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, communications are the bedrock of emergency response and management. …

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  Ryan McKay

  

  S.Korea confirms H5N6 bird flu at duck farm, raises bird flu alert level

  nst.com.my - Reuters

  SEOUL: South Korea on Sunday said it had confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu at a duck farm in the south west of the country and …

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  Ryan McKay

  

  Storms hit poorer people harder, from Superstorm Sandy to Hurricane Maria

  theconversation.com - Chris Sellers

  The ferocious “frankenstorm” known as Sandy that ripped through greater New York City five years ago remains one for the record books. Like this …

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  Ryan McKay

  

  How Tulsa Became A Model For Preventing Floods

  NPR - Joe Wertz

  If Houston's record deluge during Hurricane Harvey highlighted the dangers of unchecked, sprawling development, then Tulsa — another city built on oil — is a showcase for the opposite. For decades it has planned carefully and imposed wide-ranging regulations that aim to prevent the kind of …

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  Ryan McKay

  

  How Madagascar Took Control Of Its Plague Outbreak

  NPR - Rae Ellen Bichell

  In early autumn, it became clear that something was not right in Madagascar. The country often sees small outbreaks of the bubonic plague, which comes from an infection spread by a flea bite. The disease is now easily treatable with antibiotics. But this time, the number of cases was growing quickly, …