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TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE PART 3

TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE PART 3 . Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction . GOAL: COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE . FLOODS. USE DISASTER’S INFO TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE . SEVERE WIND STORMS.

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TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE PART 3

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  1. TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE PART 3 Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction

  2. GOAL: COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE FLOODS USE DISASTER’S INFO TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE SEVERE WIND STORMS EARTHQUAKES INCREASE TECHNICAL AND POLITICL CAPACITY OF COMMUNITY TO COPE DROUGHTS INCREASE OWNERSHIP AND USE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE LANDSLIDES WILDFIRES VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS TSUNAMIS GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGICAL HAZARDS

  3. NOTABLE DISASTERS IN 2011 FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA NEW KNOWLEDGE FOR COMMUNITY DISASTER RISK REDUCTION EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI IN JAPAN WILDFIRES IN FLORIDA, TEXAS, AND ARIZONA , ETC CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE HURRICANE IRENE AND TROPIAL STORM LEE FLOODS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI River SUPER TORNADO OUTBREAK VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

  4. 2011’S KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE INCLUDED WILDFIRES IN FLORIDA, TEXAS, AND ARIZONA MARCH - SEPTEMBER, 2011

  5. --- which are single- or multiple-event natural hazards that, (for various reasons), caused extreme levels of mortality, morbidity, homelessness, joblessness, economic losses, or environmental impacts.

  6. A DISASTER is --- --- the set of failures that overwhelm the capability of a community torespond without external help  when three continuums: 1)  people, 2) community (i.e., a set of habitats, livelihoods, and social constructs), and 3) complex events (e.g., floods, earthquakes, ...,) intersect at a point in space and time.

  7. THE THREE CONTINUUMS OF EVERY DISASTER PEOPLE COMMUNITY COMPLEX EVENTS

  8. A DISASTER IMPACTS ALL SOCIETAL ELEMENTS

  9. AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE • Transforms information and experience gained from a disaster into knowledge, best practices, and new tech-nology to help a stricken community become disaster resilient.

  10. BUILDING CAPACITY FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE • Identify the gaps in community capacity in the four critical elements of the solution: Preparedness, Protection, Response, and Recovery. • Concentrate resources on filling the perceived gaps in Preparedness, Protection, Response, and Recovery, and start creating turning points for change.

  11. CRITICAL ELEMENTS FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE • PREPAREDNESS (READY FOR ANY COMPLEX EVENT) • PROTECTION (BUILD ESSENTIAL AND CRITICAL FACILITIES TO WITHSTAND)

  12. CRITICAL ELEMENTS FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE • RESPONSE (SAVING LIVES, AND ENSURING CONTINUITY) • RECOVERY (BOUNCING BACK QUICKLY AND RESUMING LIFE AGAIN)

  13. BENEFITS OF AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE • Intensifies effortsto protect essential (schools) and critical (hospitals, dams, transportation, systems, and power plants) facilities.

  14. EDUCATIONAL SURGES CREATE TURNING POINTS FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE ALL SECTORS OF SOCIETY INFORMED IGNORANCE TO ENLIGHTENMENT EDUCATIONAL SURGES WILL INCREASE KNOWLEDGE OF A COM-MUNITY’S RISK APATHY TO EMPOWERMENT BOUNDARIES TO NETWORKS STATUS QUO TO GOOD POLITICAL DECISIONS

  15. TURNING POINTS FOR CHANGE NEW RESOURCES NEW DELIVERY MECHANISMS EDUCATIONAL SURGES WILL RESULT IN … NEW PROFESSIONAL LINKAGES NEW LEGISLATIVE MANDATES NEW DIALOGUE ON BUILDING A CULTURE OF DISASTER-RISK REDUCTION

  16. EDUCATIONAL SURGE ADD VALUE INCREASE AWARENESS AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE WILL INCREASE UNDERSTANDING INCREASE POLITICAL WILL BUILD EQUITY

  17. BENEFITS OF EDUCATIONAL SURGES EXPAND CAPABILITY IMPROVE DELIVERY MECHANISMS EDUCATIONAL SURGES OVERCOME UNIVERSAL BARRIERS CREATE TURNING POINTS OF CHANGE INCREASE COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE

  18. WILDFIRES IN FLORIDA FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 4, 2011

  19. WILDFIRES CAN CAUSE HIGH-RISK SITUATIONS Any wildfire can be devas-tating to people, and their health, property, infrastructure, business enterprise, community, and environment.

  20. WILDFIRE HAZARDS (AKA POTENTIAL DISASTER AGENTS) • FIRE • HOT GASES AND SMOKE • HOT SPOTS • BURNED OUT SLOPES (with increased susceptibility to insect infestation, erosion, and landslides)

  21. WILDFIRE HAZARDS (AKA POTENTIAL DISASTER AGENTS) • HIGH WINDS • LOCAL CHANGES IN AIR QUALITY • LOCAL CHANGES IN WEATHER

  22. THE CONDITIONS IN 2011 WERE FAVORABLE FOR WILDFIRES In 2010, Florida had the driest July to December on record, and parts of Florida had their driest winter months in 2011 in nearly 80 years.

  23. RISK FACTORS: FLORIDA • The absence in 2010 of the usual number of tropical storm systems that make landfall in Florida left the land dry and low water tables, two factors that increased the likelihood of wildfires, and, along with high winds, exacerbated risk..

  24. WILDFIRES RAGED OUT OF CONTROL IN WEST TEXAS AND TEXAS PANHAMDLE DROUGHT AND WIND EXACERBATED WILDFIRES, WHICH SCORCHED 80,000 -100,000 ACRES MARCH 12 - APRIL 11, 2011

  25. WILDFIRE IN TEXAS PANHANDLE Billowing smoke caused by a wildfire in the Texas Panhandle near Borger, Texas, Sunday, March 12, 2006.

  26. WILDFIRE IN TEXAS PANHANDLE Flames reach heights of 20-30 feet as a wildfire rages on Sunday, March 12, 2006 near Borger, Texas.

  27. FIRE FIGHTERS CAME FROM OTHER STATES TO HELP • Fire fighters from 25 states joined together in a joint effort to bring a dozen fires under control.

  28. PROBLEMS FOR FIRE FIGHTERS • Hot, windy conditions and low humidity, combined with withered shrubs and grasses caused by the drought, made fire fighting more dangerous than usual.

  29. PROBLEMS FOR FIRE FIGHTERS • Air tankers usually used to douse massive fires like these could not be flown because of wind gusts of 66 to 60 kph (40 to 50 mph) on some days.

  30. WILDFIRES BURNED OVER 1 MILLION ACRES OF DROUGHT-STRICKEN TEXAS URGENCY OF THE SITUATION LED TO FIREFIGHTERS FROM OTHER STATES BEING CALLED IN TO HELP APRIL 11-19, 2011

  31. EVACUATION • More than 1,900 people from seven counties were evacuated.

  32. POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE RECREATIONAL AREA IMPACTED • Fires at the Possum Kingdom Lake, the latest area to be impacted by wildfires, have encroached to within about 130 km (70 mi) of the Fort Worth side of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.

  33. CALL FOR HELP • Texas called for help from other states because the fire, one of several across Texas, had burned 1 million acres of land in a little more than a week, was now threatened the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

  34. WILDFIRE NEAR STRAWN, TEXAS: APRIL 18, 2011

  35. ONE HOUSE OUT OF 33 ESCAPES WILDFIRE NEAR STRAWN, TEXAS

  36. TANKER PLANE FIGHTING WILDFIRE: APRIL 18, 2011

  37. THREE-DOZEN WILDFIRES WERE BURNING IN PARTS OF ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND GEORGIA June 2011

  38. JUNE WAS “2011’s FIRE SEASON” IN THE WEST • Exacerbated by high temperatures, high winds, and recent drought, more than 1.2 million acres were burned. • Some of Arizona’s eleven wildfires that burned over one-half million acres, may have been started by illegal immigrants.

  39. ARIZONA: JUNE 8, 2011

  40. EVACUATIONS • About 10,000 Arizonans were forced to evacuate their homes as wildfires consumed large parts of the state. • Some people refused to evacuate.

  41. ARIZONA’S WATER WHEEL FIRE

  42. WORKING THE MONUMENT WILDFIRE • About 1,000 firefighters from across the USA were on the lines, and hundreds of state and local police and others were simultaneously facilitating evacuation and meeting the needs of the people.

  43. ARIZONA’S MONUMENT FIRE: JUNE 19

  44. HIGH WINDS • Winds of 30 mph that gusted to 50 mph on the ridges hindered firefighting from the air as well as on the ground, increasing the time needed to achieve significant containment.

  45. SIXTY-THREE NEW WILDFIRES WERE BURNING IN TEXAS Conditions Exacerbated by Wind and Low Relative Humidity from Tropical Storm Lee SEPTEMER 5 --30 2011

  46. Since the beginning of the wildfire season, Texas had dealt with over 20,900 fires that destroyed more than 1,000 homes and burned 3.6 million acres (1.46 million hectares).

  47. SMITHVILLE, TX FIRE

  48. BASTROP, TX FIRE: EVACUATIONS UNDERWAY

  49. EXACERBATING CONDITIONS IN TEXAS • In addition to the continuing drought conditions, the fires were exacerbated by heat, high winds and low relative humidity from Tropical Storm Lee.

  50. CALL FOR HELP ANSWERED • Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System (TIFMAS) strike teams were mobilized. • National Guard Blackhawk helicopters were made available. • Heavy air tankers from South Dakota and California were sent.

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