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Five years into its tenure, the research of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre ( Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC) is being practically applied by its partners across Australia. This research impact highlights the vision of the CRC: trusted research and knowledge across all hazards, developed for the benefit…
Em pouco mais de cinco minutos o estudante Douglas Santos Vieira, de 17 anos, que é deficiente auditivo, deixou as dependências da Escola Municipal Monteiro Lobato, no Centro de Nova Iguaçu, durante o exercício simulado de incêndio, realizado pela Subsecretaria de Proteção e Defesa Civil. Ele e outros 1.735 alunos participaram da ação, que faz parte do…
This simulation game from the UNISDR involves five scenarios requiring players to save lives by building upon an established community and providing defences and upgraded housing to prepare for an inevitable disaster. Each scenario can be played on easy, medium or hard difficulty levels, and takes between 10 and 20 minutes, depending on the disaster and…
The Western Australian Department of Fire and Emergency Services have developed and released North West Bushfire Patrol, a curriculum linked primary school bushfire education resource for all schools across the North West of Australia. It has been designed to be geographically and culturally appropriate for students in this region.
The resources were w…
The Survive and Thrive pilot program is an intensive two year bushfire education program for primary school students in Grade 5/6 in Australia. It is delivered through a community-based partnership between local CFA brigades and local primary schools. To date, the program has been delivered in the localities of Anglesea and Strathewen. In Anglesea, the…
The classroom is buzzing with excitement and energy! Students at "Vardanants Aspetner", Yerevan basic school No. 106, glance periodically at each other and grin, as they eagerly play the Super David e-game. Each of them is busy competing for the highest score in the game.
The Super David e-game has been designed by the Dasaran educational platform for…
COMPDEC is a new, municipal civil defence authority. It has organised the first simulation in the history of the city.
The goal of this simulation is to evacuate the local school quickly and safely. The 250 children that are involved have been trained to help each other to go outside to a safe meeting point.
It…
This event will help students across Indonesia to gain a better understanding of disaster risk management and reduction, particularly regarding earthquake disaster. The event will focus on earthquakes as the main topic area due to the large amount of victims caused by the occurence of 2 major earthquakes in Indonesia over t…
In this emergency preparedness game, players are introduced to safety precautions for a range of hazards including wildfires, tornados and tsunamis. Players must help the characters face these hazards. By making the right choices, players earn points to get to the next level. Winners get their own graphic novel.
With a high regional risk of earthquakes, fires, and school violence, Los Angeles developed and incorporated a Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) into emergency planning, mandated regular earthquake and other emergency drills, and developed a Safe School Plan template for school use in order to coordinate emergency responses and ensure all…
The objectives of this study are to identify direct vulnerability factors to fire hazards in selected schools in Ibidan, determine preparedness levels against fire hazards, compare fire hazard vulnerability levels between public and private schools in the study area, determine risk recovery strategies, and examine the likely challenges of ensuring fire…
Alunos de 14 escolas municipais de Nova Iguaçu participaram, nesta quinta-feira (29), Dia Estadual da Redução de Riscos de Desastres, de um grande exercício de desocupação de emergência das unidades de ensino. A simulação promovida pela Defesa Civil envolveu 5.501 pessoas, sendo 4.974 estudantes e 527 funcionários. O treinamento faz parte do projeto ‘Es…