Emergencity :: admin: December 2008
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California's AB 38, signed by the Governor in September, established the California Emergency Management Agency as a Cabinet-level entity responsible for emergency management and homeland security operations. A deadline to name the secretary of the combined agencies is the first of the year.
"The merger demonstrates the Governor's ongoing commitment to an all-hazards preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation approach," Henry Renteria, director of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services said in a statement.
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn on Wednesday slammed a proposed strategy that's supposed to help the Port of Los Angeles recover from a catastrophic terrorist attack or natural disaster. The plan, developed by port executives, was decried by Hahn as too vague and incomplete in detailing how to resume business the day after disaster strikes the nation's busiest port. "I must say I was extremely disappointed in what you guys turned in," Hahn told port executives. "This is no more a recovery plan than anything else. It's more like a table of contents. There was no real action plan here."
The online version of the New Zealand Herald has set up a natural disaster global news feed, tracking incidents from the floods in Venice, Italy to the California wildfires. While it is primarily after-the-fact journalism, it is quite valuable to get a sense of what the big stories are from the other side of the world.
