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Breakthrough Innovation to Help Overcome Today’s Public Safety Challenges

everbridge

According to the EM-DAT Emergency Event Database, there were 432 natural hazard-related incidents in 2021, compared to an average of 357 annual catastrophes for the period 2001-2020. While there are many ways to alert people about imminent dangers, many public safety systems: cannot reach everyone, everywhere, and every time.

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SIA New Member Profile: The AiN Group

Security Industry Association

Melanie Panetta : The AiN Group was founded by president and owner Stan Matysiak over 20 years ago in 2001. He began his career over 38 years ago with Ademco and continued his security industry career onto First Alert, creating the First Alert Professional Dealer Program.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). He has served as consultant for United Nations, U.S.