Posts tagged emergency.

pritheworld:

Emergency responders applied field tourniquets to many of those injured by the explosions at Monday’s Boston Marathon. 

The device, often improvised, had fallen out of favor with many in the medical establishment, but the American military experience in Iraq and Afghanistan changed that. http://ow.ly/kagSK 

First responders are key to emergency events. Really good video on how field tourniquets are used in the military and public emergency situations.Also, you just gotta follow PRI The World.

#first responders  #boston  #marathon  #military  #emergency  #video  #tourniquets  #medicine  
∞  04/17/13 at 04:32pm via ow.ly
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Hurricane Sandy deathtoll rising, now at 65. Haiti hit hardest. Click for story. ›

#hurricane sandy  #haiti  #flooding  #infrastructure  #emergency  #deathtoll  #fox news  
∞  10/28/12 at 07:54pm
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wnyc: Embeddable Resources from WNYC ahead of Hurricane Sandy:  SANDY TRACKERhttp://wny.cc/sandy-trackerSTORM-SURGE FLOOD ZONES (NY & NJ)http://wny.cc/storm-surgeNYC EVACUATION ZONES (only NYC)http://wny.cc/EvacZones Really great maps! HIGH RES

wnyc:

Embeddable Resources from WNYC ahead of Hurricane Sandy: 

SANDY TRACKER
http://wny.cc/sandy-tracker

STORM-SURGE FLOOD ZONES (NY & NJ)
http://wny.cc/storm-surge

NYC EVACUATION ZONES (only NYC)
http://wny.cc/EvacZones

Really great maps!

#maps  #wnyc  #hurricane sandy  #emergency  #response  #storms  #weather  #coastline  
∞  10/28/12 at 01:00pm via wnyc
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Nearly 750 villages suddenly flooded in Myanmar (aka Burma). Over 30,000 people evacuated. Hundreds feared missing, including children. 500,000+ acres of farms flooded.

More, including donations, at Global Voices.

#myanmar  #flooding  #villages  #disaster  #emergency  #news  #burma  #asia  #monsoon  #climate change  
∞  08/24/12 at 01:13pm via globalvoicesonline.org
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Okla. Gov. Mary Fallin declares drought emergency ›

The action allows the state to become eligible for Federal Assistance.

#oklahoma  #drought  #climate change  #emergency  #federal assistance  
∞  08/09/12 at 08:57am
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Sea creatures clog intake at Calif. nuclear plant ›

thenuclearblog:

The Associated Press Posted on Fri, Apr. 27, 2012 10:52 AM

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — An overwhelming number of jellyfish-like creatures clogging seawater intake screens forced operators on Thursday to shut down the Unit 2 reactor at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, Pacific Gas & Electric officials said.

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#nuclear power  #cooling  #towers  #energy  #shut down  #emergency  #future  #technology  #environment  #climate change  #sea level rise  
∞  05/02/12 at 04:44pm via kansascity.com
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Call for urgent action in Sahel to prevent humanitarian emergency The food crisis in the Sahel will turn into a humanitarian emergency unless urgent action is taken, said the NGO Oxfam as it launched a $36.3m (£23m) emergency appeal for west Africa on Friday. Levels of malnutrition in areas of Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and northern Senegal are becoming dangerously high, warns the NGO, hovering between a rate of 10% and 15%. Some areas have exceeded 15%, which is considered the emergency threshold by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. Among the indicators used to determine famine conditions are when acute malnutrition rates exceed 30% and when recorded deaths are more than two per 10,000 people a day. The governments of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger have already declared emergencies and called for international assistance. According to figures published by the UN last week, more than 13 million people are at risk of hunger in the Sahel, with more than 10 million now considered food-insecure. More than 1 million children are at risk of severe malnutrition. The situation in the region is being blamed on a mix of drought, high food prices and conflict. Via The Guardian Donate $3: Oxfam HIGH RES

Call for urgent action in Sahel to prevent humanitarian emergency

The food crisis in the Sahel will turn into a humanitarian emergency unless urgent action is taken, said the NGO Oxfam as it launched a $36.3m (£23m) emergency appeal for west Africa on Friday.

Levels of malnutrition in areas of Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and northern Senegal are becoming dangerously high, warns the NGO, hovering between a rate of 10% and 15%. Some areas have exceeded 15%, which is considered the emergency threshold by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.

Among the indicators used to determine famine conditions are when acute malnutrition rates exceed 30% and when recorded deaths are more than two per 10,000 people a day.

The governments of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger have already declared emergencies and called for international assistance.

According to figures published by the UN last week, more than 13 million people are at risk of hunger in the Sahel, with more than 10 million now considered food-insecure. More than 1 million children are at risk of severe malnutrition.

The situation in the region is being blamed on a mix of drought, high food prices and conflict.

Via The Guardian

Donate $3: Oxfam

#west africa  #sahel  #drought  #health  #emergency  #disaster  #oxfam  #malnutrition  #food  #water  #un  #starvation  #war  #food prices  #security  #climate change  #adaptation  #agriculture  #donation  
∞  04/07/12 at 08:33am
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This is how Fox News is covering the drought in the SW US and around the world ›

I just lost 500 million brain cells.

#fox  #fox news  #weather  #drought  #emergency  #cities  #city planning  #regional planning  #water  #water policy  #policy  #disaster management  #climate change  #south west  #arizona  #texas  #louisiana  #perth  #australia  
∞  07/18/11 at 07:30pm
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