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Snowmageddon 2010

This is what being a volunteer in the City of Falls Church is all about.

The DC-VA-MD area saw a record snowfall of up to 30 inches Feb. 4-10 over two separate snow storms that swept through the mid-Atlantic.

At the request of the Arlington County Fire Department, the FCVFD put into service two Utility […]

February 16th, 2010 | Category: disaster response | Leave a comment

South Korea Conducts Earthquake Simulation for Seoul

Here is an interesting article about an earthquake simulation ran by South Korea’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

NEMA ran an simulation for a 7.0 earthquake in southwest Seoul.

Here are the results:

– 50,451 people dead

– 621,780 people injured

– 47,0162 people displaced

– 929,230 out of 6,643,638 buldings damaged or destroyed

– […]

January 17th, 2010 | Category: disaster response, studies | Leave a comment

Virginia Task Force 1 USAR Team Preparing for Deployment to Haiti

The Urban Search and Rescue Team from the neighboring Fairfax County’s Virginia Task Force 1 are preparing to Haiti in response to the catastrophic 7.0-scale earthquake that hit the are this morning.

Reports indicate that as many as 3 million people were affected, and this number ins expected to climb.

Check out the posting on […]

January 13th, 2010 | Category: disaster response, FCFRD | Leave a comment