Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Image Caption: FEMA’s Craig Fugate As Hurricane Sandy moved closer to its New Jersey landfall, federal emergency management administrators are moving past the preparation stages for the storm and looking to support recovery efforts by states in the coming days. Federal Emergency Management Agency…
FEMA gives a look inside NRCC during Sandy prep
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Image Caption: FEMA’s NRCC, Oct. 28 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provided a glimpse of the hectic activity inside its Washington D.C. response coordination center ahead of Hurricane Sandy’s landfall. An Oct. 28 blog post on the agency’s Web site showed FEMA employees…
Border agencies halt enforcement actions in Sandy evacuations
Top Priority Sector: border_security U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) were told to concentrate on saving lives and property and not to pursue immigration enforcement activities during evacuations ordered ahead of Hurricane Sandy. The massive east coast storm threatens millions from Washington D.C….
Worried about Hurricane Sandy, AVSEC World 2012 conference and ISC East postponed
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response In anticipation of Hurricane Sandy wreaking havoc on the New York City metropolitan area early next week, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced the postponement of AVSEC World 2012, a major aviation security conference which would have attracted global leaders in aviation…
Worried about Hurricane Sandy, IATA postpones its AVSEC World 2012 conference
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response In anticipation of Hurricane Sandy wreaking havoc on the New York City metropolitan area early next week, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced the postponement of AVSEC World 2012, a major aviation security conference which would have attracted global leaders in aviation…
East Coast emergency management agencies gird for Hurricane Sandy
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Image Caption: Oct. 26 forecast track As the metropolitan corridor between Washington D.C, Philadelphia and New York appears to be the bullseye for what looks to be an inevitable hit from a powerful winter storm/hurricane, federal and state emergency management agencies in the area…