The Emergency Management Network Podcast

Episode Description What if the key to building stronger, safer, and more resilient communities isn’t another seawall, a bigger emergency operations center, or more concrete, but the relationships we build in everyday places? In this episode of EMM Hope , hosts Todd DeVoe and Andrew Boyarsky welcome Dr. Daniel P. Aldrich , author of the new book Beyond Common Ground: How Everyday Places Solve Big...

THE EMN DAILY NEWS | Thursday, 1 October 2026 The Overview Flood watches across Texas and Oklahoma; FY27 starts on a CR Flood watches cover southern Oklahoma and much of north and central Texas today as the remnants of Hurricane Polo move across the region, with flash flood warnings overnight around Wichita Falls and a watch running through Friday evening over the Hill Country counties still in Pu...

FEMA has issued a formal definition of emergency management, calling it the strategic coordination of emergency services to protect life, property, and continuity of operations, and paired it with 12 coordination responsibilities that every FEMA component must now align its doctrine, training and publications to. Three Federal Register notices published yesterday reset the annual assistance number...

THE EMN NEWS DAILY BRIEF | Tuesday, 29 September 2026 Hawaii County has shifted from response to damage assessment after Hurricane Nolo and is asking residents and businesses to file damage reports through separate residential and commercial forms. Governor Josh Green has identified roughly $686 million in damage and recovery costs from the state’s first four disasters of 2026, before Nolo, which...

Hurricane Nolo passed farther south than forecast and spared Hawaii Island the worst case, but flooded roads on the Big Island, prompted five high-water rescues Sunday and knocked out power on Oahu and Maui. A pre-landfall Presidential Emergency Declaration approved Friday covers four counties at a 75 percent federal cost share. On the East Coast, the nor’easter killed a New York City Housing Auth...

THE EMN DAILY NEWS BRIEF | Friday, 25 September 2026 Nolo became a hurricane Thursday night and is closing on Hawaii Island with 80-mile-per-hour winds, a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch for Hawaii County, a tropical storm watch for Maui County, and forecast rainfall of 15 to 30 inches on the eastern and southern Big Island. Hawaii County opens five more shelters this morning, and state...

THE EMN NEWS DAILY BRIEF | Thursday, 24 September 2026 Tropical Storm Nolo formed south of Hawaii on Wednesday, and a hurricane watch is in effect for Hawaii County, with a flood watch covering the Big Island and Maui County through Saturday evening. Forecast rainfall is 15 to 20 inches on Hawaii Island, with isolated totals to 35 inches, on ground already damaged by Hurricane Lala in August. A st...

THE EMN NEWS DAILY BRIEF | Wednesday, 23 September 2026 Two pilots were killed Sunday when a helicopter under contract to the Forest Service crashed on the Dome fire in Yosemite National Park. The national preparedness level dropped to 2 with 92 incidents, 31 uncontained large fires and 9,701 personnel, down 588 in a day. A flood watch runs from this afternoon through Saturday afternoon for Maui,...

THE EMN DAILY NEWS | Monday, 21 September 2026 Tropical Storm Fay peaked at 70 miles per hour overnight, just short of hurricane strength, and is now weakening about 405 miles southwest of the Azores with no hazards to land. The Central Pacific Hurricane Center gives the remnants of Tropical Depression Fifteen-E a 60 percent chance of becoming a depression within seven days, possibly south or sout...

THE EMN NEWS DAILY | Tuesday, 22 September 2026 The remnants of Tropical Depression Fifteen-E southeast of Hawaii are now likely to become a tropical depression within a day or two, up from a medium chance over the weekend. In the eastern Pacific, Hurricane Polo reached Category 4 overnight with 130-mile-per-hour winds, and the Associated Press reports it reached Category 5 Tuesday, with a tropica...

Episode Description September 11: The Recovery That Never Really Ended Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the skyline of Lower Manhattan has been rebuilt—but recovery is about far more than buildings. In this episode of Emergency Management Network, Todd DeVoe examines the long aftermath of 9/11: rebuilding Ground Zero, caring for responders and survivors, confronting World...

Show Description A crisis reveals the character of the people leading through it. Have they earned trust? Can they hear uncomfortable truths? Have they taken care of the team they are about to ask everything of? In this episode of the Emergency Management Network Podcast, Todd DeVoe welcomes Eric McNulty, co-author of You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most , for a conversa...

Show Description When a disaster begins high in the mountains, its consequences can reach communities far downstream before people understand what is coming. In this episode of the Emergency Management Network podcast, we examine Nepal’s devastating August 26 flash flood and debris flow, the unfolding humanitarian emergency, and the operational challenges facing responders. Preliminary USGS findin...

Episode Description The storm passes. The rain stops. The winds die down. And sometimes, that is when the real emergency begins. Electricity is the backbone of nearly every system modern communities depend upon. Communications, water and wastewater systems, hospitals, fuel distribution, traffic control, grocery stores, banking, transportation, emergency operations, and even our ability to receive...

Episode Description What can emergency managers learn when disasters strike very different communities at nearly the same time? In this episode of the Emergency Management Network Podcast , Todd DeVoe and Andrew Boyarsky return from the IAEM Region 9 Symposium in Honolulu with a fresh perspective on preparedness, logistics, resilience, and the power of community. The conversation begins in Hawaii,...

Manufacturing Quiet Tuesdays National Emergency Management Awareness Month, and a Confirmed Administrator at Last Host: Todd T. DeVoe, CEM Runtime: 11:45 Recorded: August 8, 2026 SHOW NOTES August is National Emergency Management Awareness Month, and this year it arrives alongside news the field has waited two years to hear. On Friday, August 7, the Senate confirmed Cameron Hamilton as Administrat...

Episode Description August is National Emergency Management Advocacy Month , a time to recognize the importance of speaking up for the emergency management profession and the communities we serve. In this episode, Todd DeVoe and Andrew Boyarsky discuss why advocacy is essential to the future of emergency management. From educating elected officials and building partnerships to securing resources a...

EMN Podcast Episode Description The Most Beautiful Game: Managing the FIFA World Cup 2026 from the JTOC What does it take to keep one of the largest sporting events in history running safely behind the scenes? In this special episode of the Emergency Management Network Podcast , host Todd DeVoe takes listeners inside the Joint Tournament Operations Center (JTOC) during the FIFA World Cup 2026 , of...

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...