The Emergency Management Network Podcast

Today’s brief leads with a magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the southern Philippines that prompted a Pacific Tsunami Warning Center advisory for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, with no threat to Hawaii or the U.S. West Coast. We cover national wildfire operations at Preparedness Level 2, including active fires threatening structures and infrastructure in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, N...

Today’s brief leads with Orange County, where Garden Grove’s GKN Aerospace hazmat emergency de-escalates and all evacuation orders lift, returning the final 16,000 residents home with no injuries. New Mexico’s Seven Cabins Fire reaches 64 percent containment and Lincoln County rescinds all evacuations. CISA adds an actively exploited vulnerability to its KEV catalog, the central United States face...

The Atlantic hurricane season officially opened June 1 as FEMA reaffirmed readiness and the National Hurricane Center continued to watch a high-probability disturbance in the Eastern Pacific. In New Mexico, the Seven Cabins Fire pushed past 29,000 acres with evacuations in Lincoln County and a Type 1 team transition. Hawaii’s Kīlauea ended Episode 48 of the Halemaʻumaʻu eruption after nine hours o...

Episode Description What happens when a single industrial chemical tank threatens an entire community? In this episode of the Emergency Management Network Podcast, Todd DeVoe and Andrew Boyarsky examine the Garden Grove hazardous materials incident that led to the evacuation of approximately 50,000 residents and businesses. What began as a concern over an overheating tank containing methyl methacr...

Episode Description In this episode of the Emergency Management Network Podcast, Todd DeVoe and Andrew Boyarsky introduce a new long-form series, The 48 Laws of Emergency Management . This series explores the hard-earned lessons, leadership principles, operational realities, and unwritten rules that define the profession of emergency management. Drawing inspiration from decades of field experience...

Episode Description This week on the Emergency Management Network Podcast, we take a deep dive into the FEMA Review Council and what its work could mean for the future of emergency management in the United States. As conversations continue around disaster response, federal coordination, resilience policy, and the role of FEMA in an increasingly complex risk environment, the review process has beco...

Episode Summary What if the future of emergency management is already here, just not where we’ve traditionally looked? In this episode, Todd DeVoe sits down with Marcus T. Coleman Jr., Vice President for Community Resilience Strategy at United Way Worldwide, for a candid, practitioner-level conversation about the evolving landscape of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. Drawing on more...

Today’s brief covers the published Presidential major disaster declaration for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands following Super Typhoon Sinlaku, the FEMA Alaska recovery update on Typhoon Halong, and CISA’s addition of two actively exploited vulnerabilities (ConnectWise ScreenConnect and Microsoft Windows Shell) to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Wildfire activity in s...

Episode Summary: In this episode of the Emergency Management Network Podcast, Todd DeVoe and Andrew Boyarsky take a hard look at a growing challenge within the profession: not a lack of effort or expertise, but a lack of clarity. Emergency management does extraordinary work across preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery, yet too often struggles to articulate its value in a way that resona...

Today’s EM Morning Brief covers a Storm Prediction Center Moderate Risk for severe weather across Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee with strong tornado potential, three large active wildfires (Highway 82 in Georgia, Hummingbird in New Mexico, and Poitrey Canyon in Colorado), Extremely Critical fire weather across far western Texas and eastern New Mexico, the latest USGS update on Kīlauea...

On today’s EM Morning Brief for Friday, April 24, 2026: President Trump signs a Major Disaster Declaration for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands following Super Typhoon Sinlaku, unlocking federal Individual and Public Assistance for Saipan, Tinian, Rota, and the Northern Islands. A tornado emergency strikes Enid, Oklahoma, late Thursday, damaging Gray Ridge Estates and forcing Vance...

On today’s EM Morning Brief for Thursday, April 23, 2026: Georgia’s governor declares a State of Emergency across 91 counties as the Brantley and Echols County wildfires burn more than 20,000 combined acres and destroy at least 54 homes. CISA’s April 23 federal remediation deadline hits for three actively exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaws, with five additional KEV additions due May 4....

Wednesday’s EM Morning Brief for April 22, 2026 leads with the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands’ Super Typhoon Sinlaku major disaster declaration package now with the President; today’s opening of a FEMA Disaster Assistance Center in Whatcom County, Washington; and Federal Register publication of Presidential Public Assistance declarations for Idaho, Montana, and Oregon. The brief also...

On today’s EM Morning Brief, CISA adds eight actively exploited vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with a May 11 federal remediation deadline. FEMA major disaster declarations for Montana, Idaho, and Oregon tied to December 2025 storms were published in the Federal Register, opening Public Assistance funding. Super Typhoon Sinlaku recovery continues across Guam and the...

Episode Description: The FIFA World Cup isn’t just coming to Los Angeles—it’s coming to Inglewood. And with it comes one of the most complex, high-visibility operational environments emergency managers will face in a generation. In this episode of the Emergency Management Network Podcast, Todd DeVoe and Andrew Boyarsky break down what it really means to prepare for a global mega-event. This isn’t...

Today’s EM Morning Brief covers the continued federal response to Super Typhoon Sinlaku in Guam and the CNMI, where U.S. Coast Guard operations press northward and ports at Saipan, Tinian, and Rota remain closed. Michigan’s statewide emergency has expanded to Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, and 38 counties as flooding and dam concerns persist at the Cheboygan Lock and Dam Complex. Cleanup continues across W...

Federal recovery operations continue across the Mariana Islands under FEMA Emergency Declarations for Guam and CNMI following Super Typhoon Sinlaku; the President affirms a Major Disaster Declaration for Hawaii tied to the March Kona-low storms; CISA adds an Apache ActiveMQ flaw to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and publishes four new ICS advisories; SPC highlights an Enhanced Risk of...

Today’s EM Morning Brief covers Super Typhoon Sinlaku’s devastating impact on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, where winds up to 185 mph knocked out power and water and displaced more than a thousand residents. A multi-day severe weather outbreak has produced confirmed tornadoes across six states, including an EF-3 near Union Center, Wisconsin, and an EF-2 in Ottawa, Kansas. Florida’s extrem...

Today’s EM Morning Brief covers a multi-day severe weather outbreak across the central United States, including an EF-2 tornado in Ottawa, Kansas that triggered a state disaster emergency, and widespread wind and flood damage across Wisconsin and Michigan. We cover the Cheboygan Dam flood response, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake near Silver Springs, Nevada, continued evacuations at the Newman Drive Fi...

Today’s EM Morning Brief covers an active multi-day severe weather outbreak across the Southern Plains and into the Upper Midwest, with confirmed tornadoes in Kansas and Minnesota and an enhanced threat continuing through Tuesday. Emergency operations continue in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands under Super Typhoon Sinlaku, with a Presidential emergency declaration in effect. NIFC is at Prepa...

EMN Podcast Description In this episode of The Emergency Management Network Podcast, Andrew Boyarsky sits down with Todd DeVoe to unpack a powerful and timely idea: the world is not falling apart; it is revealing itself. Drawing from Todd’s latest article, the conversation explores how today’s risk environment is no longer defined by single incidents, but by a convergence of interconnected stresse...

On today’s EM Morning Brief, Super Typhoon Sinlaku — a Category 5 storm with 175 to 180 mph winds — is bearing down on the Northern Mariana Islands with catastrophic conditions expected for Saipan and Tinian Monday night. Federal emergency declarations are in place for both Guam and the CNMI. On the mainland, a rare four-day severe weather outbreak continues to threaten Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas...

Tropical Storm Sinlaku intensifies in the western Pacific as Guam declares Condition of Readiness 3 with a potential Category 3-4 typhoon landfall projected by Monday. FEMA faces a $10 billion disaster reimbursement backlog and internal readiness concerns ahead of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. CISA and federal partners warn of ongoing Iran-linked cyberattacks targeting programmable logic con...

Today’s EM Morning Brief leads with a joint advisory from CISA, the FBI, NSA, EPA, DOE, and U.S. Cyber Command warning that Iranian-affiliated cyber actors are actively exploiting programmable logic controllers across U.S. water, energy, and government systems. Advisory AA26-097A documents confirmed operational disruptions and financial losses. NERC is actively monitoring the electric grid in resp...

Today’s emergency brief takes you through the biggest safety and emergency updates making news right now. We start with a troubling cybersecurity alert involving Iranian-affiliated threat actors and growing concerns about attacks on critical infrastructure. From there, we check in on wildfire activity across the country and the efforts underway to contain dangerous blazes. We also discuss rising t...