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|2025.12.03
|[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09804-3 Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery]
|Tianyuan Huang, Chad Zanocco, Zhecheng Wang, Jackelyn Hwang & Ram Rajagopal
|Planning, Equity
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|2025.10.30
|[https://www.oregon.gov/oem/Documents/2025-2030_Oregon_Natural_Hazards_Mitigation_All-Chapters.pdf State of Oregon Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan]
|State of Oregon
|Planning
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|2025.06.26
|[[Media:2025.06.26.As FEMA Shrinks, a Grassroots Disaster ...pdf|As FEMA Shrinks, a Grassroots Disaster Response Is Taking Shape]]
|The New York Times/Emily Cochrane and Allison Joyce
|NET, COAD
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|2025.06.25
|[[Media:2025.06.25.URM-Building-Survey-Workflow-Guidebook.pdf|Unreinforced Masonry (URM) Building Survey Workflow Guidebook]]
|Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup
|NET Ops Planning
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|2025.06.07
|[[Media:2025.06.09.Panelists in Taos County discuss lesson.pdf|Panelists in Taos County discuss lessons learned from Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire]]
|The Taos News/Emery Veilleux
|COAD, Recovery
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|2025.05.21
|[[Media:2025.05.21.The Creation of FEMA Historical Context.pdf|The Creation of FEMA: Historical Context]]
|Alt-FEMA Newsletter
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|2025.01.__
|[[Media:2025.01. .TN CERT Resource Guide.pdf|Tennessee 2025 CERT Resource Guide]]
|Volunteer Tennessee
|NET
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|2024.07.31
|[https://www.domesticpreparedness.com/articles/volunteers-incident-management-assets-or-liabilities?utm_source=DomesticPreparedness&utm_campaign=46e7ff6e55-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_06_26_05_43_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-dd6499028e-604902910 Volunteers: Incident Management Assets or Liabilities?]
|Domestic Preparedness
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|2021.05.__
|[[Media:2021.05. .TsunamiDisasterCachePlanningGuide.pdf|Earthquake and Tsunami Community Disaster Cache Planning Guide]]
|DOGAMI
|NET Ops Planning
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|2020.08.27
|[[Media:2020.08.27.Impact-of-COVID-19-on-Oregon-Charitable-Nonprofits-Report.pdf|Impact of COVID-19 on Oregon Charitable Nonprofits]]
|Portland State University
|COAD
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|2018.07.01
|[[Media:2018.07.01.Blueprint For Success.pdf|PF&R Blueprint for Success]]
|Portland Fire & Rescue Chief's Office
|NET
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|2018.--.--
|[[Media:2018.Oregon Nonprofit Disaster PreparednessFinding from the 2018 Sur.pdf|Oregon Nonprofit Disaster Preparedness: Finding from the 2018 Survey]]
|Portland State University/Grace L. Chikoto-Schultz, et al.
|COAD
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|2014.06.06
|[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/disa.12057 The impact of a natural disaster on altruistic behaviour and crime]
|Lemieux, Frederic
|BEECN, NET
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|2012.02.07
|[[Media:2012.02.07.Oregon Seismic Code History.pdf|Oregon Seismic Code History]]
|State of Oregon Building Codes Division
|Policy
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|2012.01.01
|[[Media:2012.01.01.Public Participation in Emergency Management.pdf|Public Participation in Emergency Management]]
|Jason Alexander Rood, PSU
|NET
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== Portland Emergency Management Archives - Products ==
Files linked here are products of Portland's enterprise emergency management office, or research prepared for PBEM by a third party. This list should not be treated as comprehensive.
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|2022.08.22
|[[Media:2022.08.03.JVIC Report.pdf|Portland/Multnomah County Joint Volunteer Information Center (JVIC) and Community-Based Organizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Engagement and Collaboration]]
|PSU research and after action reporting on the JVIC, which later evolved into Portland's COAD. Authors are Sarah Clay and Jeremy Spoon.
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|2022.03.15
|[https://hcpaw.portlandoregon.gov/u/9vzyzB988rnk_PLP/37a5ebe1-e0de-4618-8379-660a6716afdd?l 2021 Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan Update]
|Update to the 2021 plan published in 2022. This is a key document for PBEM and defines much of PBEM's work.
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|2020.04.11
|[[Media:2020.04.11.NET Neighborhood Assessments Doc.pdf|NET Neighborhood Assessments]]
|A neighborhood emergency team risk and capability assessment guide.
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|2017.11.10
|[[Media:PBEM-URM-report 2017.pdf|Unreinforced Masonry (URM) Building Policy Committee Report]]
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|2017.10.03
|BEECN Guidelines
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|2017.02.--
|[[Media:2017.02.15.Bureau of Emergency Management Services Omnibus Report.pdf|Bureau of Emergency Management Services Omnibus Report: Telephone & Online Survey, Focus Groups]]
|Authored by DHM Research for PBEM.
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|2017.01.09
|[[Media:2017.01.09.2017-2020 PBEM Strategic Plan.pdf|Portland Bureau of Emergency Management 2017-2020 Strategic Plan]]
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|2016.08.20
|[[Media:2016.08.20.Wemmick Heights Ops Plan.pdf|Sample NET Operations Plan ("Wemmick Heights")]]
|Initial concept and template for a NET Ops Plan (done with Charles Dickens characters!)
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|2016.08.20
|NET Guidelines, second edition
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|2014.03.05
|[[Media:2014.03.05.NET Diversity Report.pdf|NET Diversity Report]]
|Authored by Kristen Baird, and also cited in the 2017-2020 PBEM Strategic Plan.
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|2013.11.19
|NET Guidelines, first edition
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|2013.06.10
|[[Media:2013.06.10.Sears OpsCenter MasterPlan.pdf|Sears Center Operations Master Plan]]
|Assessment linked to making the Sears Center into a west side EOC. These plans were never realized.
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|2010.05.24
|[[Media:2010.05.24.Auditors PBEM report.PDF|Emergency Management: Coordination limited and essential functions incomplete]]
|Portland Auditor's office report on PBEM from 2010.
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|2004.11.14
|[[Media:2004 Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan.PDF|2004 Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan]]
|First major plan produced from POEM.
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|1998.05.27
|[[Media:1998.05.27.Basic Emergency Services Plan.pdf|Basic Emergency Services Plan]]
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|1997.12.31
|[[Media:1997.12.31.High Water Flood 1996 AAR.pdf|High Water II: February Flood of '96 AAR]]
|POEM didn't exist yet, but this report was generated from PF&R's emergency management group. For the NET perspective on the event, see: [[1996 High Water Flood]].
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|1953.02.06
|[[Media:1953.02.06.Civil Defense Traffic Routes.PDF|Disaster Relief and Civil Defense: Emergency Traffic Control Plan]]
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== Portland Emergency Management Archives - Administrative ==
The files below concern the formation and administration of Portland's enterprise emergency management office. Not presented here are products of that office (e.g. reports and analyses). This list should not be treated as comprehensive. 
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|2018.06.13
|[[Media:2018.06.13.URM resolution.PDF|Resolution No. 37364]]: Direct the Bureau of Emergency Management, Bureau of Development Services, and Prosper Portland to develop Unreinforced Masonry Building Mandatory Retrofit Implementation Steps and return to Council for adoption within one year
|Council's initial adoption of URM policy, which later failed owing to property owners suing Portland.
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|2013.12.11
|[[Media:2013.12.11.Resolution 37046.PDF|Resolution No. 37046]]: Adopt Portland Bureau of Emergency Management Strategic Plan 2014-2016
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|2012.10.17
|[[Media:2012.10.17.BEECN Grant Ordinance.pdf|Ordinance No. 185675]]: Authorize application to the Federal Emergency Management Agency Community Resilience Innovation Challenge Grant for an award in the amount of $35,000 to fund additional equipment for the Neighborhood Emergency Communication Sites
|This was an initial funding source for the program that would become BEECN (called "NECS" at the time).
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|2012.05.02
|[[Media:2012.05.02.City ordinance.PDF|Ordinance No. 185304]]: Rename the Portland Office of Emergency Management to the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (Ordinance; amend Code Chapters3.724,3.125,3.126 and Code Section 2.12.020 and 15.08.010)
|Renaming the bureau from the Portland Office of Emergency Management to the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management. Done so that the bureau be "consistent with the naming convention of City bureaus". Even though "POEM" was much cooler sounding. 
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|2011.07.13
|[[Media:2011.07.13.Ord 184740.PDF|Ordinance No. 184740]]: Amend Code to improve coordination of the City emergency management system (Ordinance; replace Code Chapters 3.124, 3.125, 3.126, 15.04, 15.08 and repeal 15.12)
|This was City Code housekeeping, but it was very important. Among other things, it entered the Portland NET program into City Code though NET had existed since 1994.
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|2010.05.01
|Portland Auditor's Report - [[Media:2010.05.01.Emergency Management Coordination limited and essential functions incomplete.PDF|Emergency Management: Coordination limited and essential functions incomplete]]
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|2008.06.04
|[[Media:2008.06.04.Resolution 36607.pdf|Resolution No. 36607]]: Rescind resolution which covered volunteers of the Portland Office of Emergency Management under the Workers' Compensation laws of the State of Oregon (Resolution; rescind Resolution No. 34841)
|Since POEM no longer had office volunteers, appears prior resolution was rescinded as part of code cleanup.
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|2007.02.14
|[[Media:2007.02.14.Carmen Merlo appointment.pdf|Mayor appoints new director of emergency office]] (Carmen Merlo)
|Portland Business Journal commenting on the appointment of Carmen Merlo as POEM Director.
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|2006.03.23
|[[Media:2006.03.23.Emergency management director appointed - Portland Business Journal.pdf|Emergency management director appointed]] (Shawn Graff)
|Portland Business Journal commenting on appointment of Shawn Graff as POEM Director. He remained in the job for less than a year.
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|2004.07.21
|[[Media:2004.07.21.78616 Establish Portland Office of Emergency Management.pdf|Ordinance No. 178616]]: Establish a new City bureau known as the Portland Office of Emergency Management (POEM). (Ordinance; amend Code Titles 3 and 15)
|The Portland Office of Emergency Management (later changed to "Bureau") established as a City of Portland bureau.
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|2003.06.04
|[[Media:2003.06.04.Council Ordinance - 177512.pdf|Ordinance No. 177512]]: Create a new Nonrepresented position and  classification of Emergency Management Director and establish a compensation rate for this classification.
|Though POEM was not yet a bureau, it was at this point that City Council created a Director level position to manage emergency management effective July 1 2003. The first Director was Miguel Ascarrunz. The bureau would come a year later.
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|1998.05.27
|[[Media:1998.05.27.Ordinance 172303.pdf|Ordinance No. 172303]]: Adopt revision to the Basic Emergency Services Plan and amend City Code to reflect changes (Ordinance introduced by Commissioner Kafoury; repeal City Code sections 15.04, 15.08 and 15.12 and adopt new City Code sections 15.04, 15.08 and 15.12)
|Major piece of legislation that rewrites Portland City Code concerning disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. POEM is mentioned as an office of Portland Fire & Rescue, under the leadership of the Fire Chief.
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|1991.04.04
|[[Media:1991.04.04.Resolution 34841.pdf|Resolution No. 34841]]: Declare intent to cover volunteers working with Portland Office of Emergency Management as workers under Workers' Compensation Law, ORS 656.001 to 656.794
|Coverage for POEM volunteers helping at the Kelly Butte office. Rescinded 17 years later with Resolution No. 36607.
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