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Did you know Thanksgiving is the peak day for home cooking
fires? To ensure home fire safety, please keep these tips in mind as you prepare your holiday meal.
Turkey
If you are roasting your turkey, make sure you set a timer. If you are frying your turkey:
- Use a fryer with thermostat controls. This will
ensure the oil does not become over heated.
- Thaw your turkey completely. Ice on the bird
will cause the oil to splatter.
- Don’t overfill the pot with oil. If you do, the
oil will overflow when you add the turkey causing a fire hazard.
- Keep children and pets at least three feet away
from the fryer.
- Also, always use the fryer outdoors; never on a deck or in the garage; and keep the fryer a safe distance from the home and other buildings.
Stuffing
and Potatoes
- Stand by your stove when you are boiling your potatoes or
frying onions for stuffing.
- Stay in the kitchen when you are
frying, boiling or broiling. If you are in the kitchen, it is easier to catch
spills or hazardous conditions before they become a fire.
Vegetables
- Keep the area around the stove clear of
packaging, paper towels, and dish cloths; anything that can burn.
- Be sure to clean up any spills as they happen.
- Be prepared. Keep a large pan lid or baking
sheet handy in case you need to smother a pan fire.
- Turn pot handles towards the back of the stove
so you don’t bump them.
For more home cooking fire safety tips, visit www.usfa.fema.gov.
FEMA’s Emergency Management
Institute Higher Education Program is hosting a webinar on November 30, 2016,
from 2-3 p.m. EST highlighting employment and internships for students. The webinar will host a discussion of the current environment students encounter with an
emphasis on building partnerships between practitioners and academics to
realize meaningful internship opportunities and prepare graduates for viable
job placement upon graduation.
The webinar, "Jobs and Internships for Emergency Management Students,"
features presenters from the following higher education institutions:
- E. Tal Ehlers, Master Exercise Practitioner,
Uintah County, Utah, Emergency Manager
- Brent Cox, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Disaster
Preparedness,
Arkansas State University
- Timothy J. De Palma, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor, BS in Emergency Management, Barry University
- Wendy Walsh, Higher Education Program
Manager, Emergency Management Institute, Moderator
Interested
individuals should register using the event registration link.
Conference call information:
800-320-4330, PIN: 376368. For more information about the webinar,
contact Wendy Walsh at wendy.walsh@fema.dhs.gov.
Seeking Comments on Draft Disaster Resilience Indicators Concept
The deadline to submit inputs and feedback to the
Mitigation Federal Leadership Group (MitFLG) Disaster Resilience Indicators
Subcommittee’s “Draft
Interagency Concept for Community Resilience Indicators and National-Level
Progress Measures" is December 15, 2016. Stakeholders can submit comments and feedback to FEMA-CommunityResilience@fema.dhs.gov.
The document is the result of a year-long effort to identify potential indicators of community resilience capacity building that align with the Mitigation and Recovery Core Capabilities under the National Preparedness Goal. Learn more details about this initiative through FEMA and NOAA partnership here.
Applications Open for Integrated Emergency Management Courses
FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI)
conducts Integrated Emergency Management Courses (IEMC) throughout the year and
across the country. The four-and-a-half day training course is designed
specifically for communities, providing both lecture and exercise-based
training focused on response operations for a disaster or emergency that could
happen in their area.
IEMC courses simulate
realistic crisis situations that emergency operations center personnel and
community leadership/elected officials may encounter during disasters or other
events. Also, the course enhances the skills of participating officials
and provides a forum to evaluate the effectiveness of their specific emergency
policies, plans, and procedures to protect life and property. The course’s
target audience includes: state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government
personnel; their SLTT elected and appointed officials; supervisory, operations, and
emergency support personnel; nonprofit organizations; the private sector; law
enforcement personnel; firefighters; attorneys; public information officers;
planners; and more.
IEMC classes are principally
delivered at FEMA’s EMI at the National Emergency
Training Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland; however, delivery may also occur
in the community. If your jurisdiction is interested in applying for the
program and obtaining information on the application process and its timeline,
please visit http://training.fema.gov/iemc/. The deadline for applications is
February 15, 2017. Questions should be directed to FEMA-EMI-IEMB@fema.dhs.gov.
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