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Emergency and disaster management briefing for October 3, 2018: The nation’s first wireless Presidential Alert to be tested by FEMA on Wednesday, nursing home residents in Pennsylvania were evacuated after a tornado rips the roof off one building, the death toll from the deadly earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Indonesia has climbed to over 1,400, Mount Soputan erupts on the Sulawesi island that was recently devastated by an earthquake and tsunami, the Pentagon announces it has received mail suspected to contain the deadly poison ricin, searchers find the body of the Ohio woman who went missing while hiking with her daughter, a two-year-old boy is among the three remains identified from the car explosion in Pennsylvania on Saturday, and Hurricane Leslie has formed far out in the Atlantic Ocean.

  1. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be conducting a [link url=”https://www.foxnews.com/us/fema-test-of-presidential-alert-to-go-out-wednesday-to-225-million-electronic-devices” title=”nationwide wireless emergency alert test Wednesday afternoon”] as its first ‘presidential alert.’ The National Wireless Emergency Alert System is the first of its kind for FEMA, and the alert will have a sound similar to that of an Amber Alert or tornado warning.  The White House will use the system [link url=”https://www.foxnews.com/us/fema-test-of-presidential-alert-to-go-out-wednesday-to-225-million-electronic-devices” title=”to issue an alert only if the public is in peril, or during a national emergency”], such as with 9/11–it is not for personal messages from the president.  
  2. An EF-2 tornado that touched down in northwestern Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon, [link url=”https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tornado-hits-conneautville-pennsylvania-nursing-home-evacuations-today-2018-10-03/” title=”damaged a nursing home and forced the evacuation of its residents”]. The tornado blew the roof off one building of the Rolling Fields Elder Care Community, causing moderate to heavy damage, but there were no tornado-related injuries to any of the residents. The American Red Cross opened a shelter at the nearby Conneaut Valley Middle School, and nursing home staff and administrators are [link url=”https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tornado-hits-conneautville-pennsylvania-nursing-home-evacuations-today-2018-10-03/” title=”working to find housing for the displaced residents”]. 
  3. Indonesian officials announced that the death toll from the major earthquake and tsunami that impacted Indonesia’s Sulawesi island last Friday, [link url=”The death toll,” title=”has now climbed to 1,407″], with at least another 2,500 injured. In some of the hardest hit areas outside Palu, [link url=”https://www.foxnews.com/world/indonesia-disaster-survivors-search-debris-for-food-drinks” title=”survivors are struggling to find food, water, fuel, and medicine”], but more substantial aid began arriving on Wednesday. [link url=”https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indonesia-earthquake-tsunami-death-toll-palu-aid-survivors-latest-updates-2018-10-03/” title=”Indonesia’s president has also requested international assistance”], including a request to the United Nations to send social workers to support children who are alone or were separated from their parents due to the double disaster. 
  4. On an island already devastated by an earthquake and tsunami, [link url=”https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indonesia-earthquake-tsunami-death-toll-palu-aid-survivors-latest-updates-2018-10-03/” title=”a volcano erupted in North Sulawesi province”]–about 585 miles northeast of the quake zone–on Wednesday morning, spewing ash over 20,000 feet in the air. Geologists indicate that it is possible the earthquake hastened the eruption of Mount Soputan, which had shown increasing activity since August. No evacuations were ordered, but [link url=”https://www.foxnews.com/world/volcano-erupts-on-same-indonesian-island-as-earlier-quake” title=”authorities warned airplanes to avoid the ash-laden air”].  
  5. https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1047324750232670208

  6. [link url=”https://www.foxnews.com/us/packages-sent-to-pentagon-suspected-to-contain-ricin-suspicious-envelope-sent-to-trump-amid-scare-at-cruz-office-in-texas” title=”Mail suspected to contain the deadly poison ricin”], was received at the Pentagon on Tuesday, including one envelope allegedly addressed to U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and another to Admiral John Richardson, the Navy’s top officer. The Pentagon stated that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is analyzing the envelopes and the mail facility has been placed under quarantine. In a separate incident, the U.S. Secret Service reportedly is investigating a ‘suspicious envelope’ it received on Monday that was [link url=”https://www.foxnews.com/us/packages-sent-to-pentagon-suspected-to-contain-ricin-suspicious-envelope-sent-to-trump-amid-scare-at-cruz-office-in-texas” title=”addressed to President Donald Trump”].  
  7. https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1047165297239752704

  8. Park officials announced Tuesday that [link url=”https://www.foxnews.com/us/body-of-missing-woman-hiking-in-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-found” title=”the body of the missing woman from Ohio hiking in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park was found”]. Over 100 volunteers and 45 organizations assisted in the search, and [link url=”https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/tennessee/2018/10/02/search-crews-smokies-find-body-missing-hiker-susan-clements/1504580002/” title=”scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratories used technology to stitch together aerial pictures of terrain”] to assist rescuers in understanding the treacherous terrain where they were searching. The woman, Mitzi Sue Clements, 53, was last seen on September 25 while hiking with her daughter on a trail near Clingmans Dome. 
  9. A father and his 2-year-old son were [link url=”https://www.cbsnews.com/news/allentown-pennsylvania-car-explosion-victims-today-2018-10-01/” title=”two of the victims in the car explosion”] that killed a total of three people in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Saturday night. Authorities believe that the perpetrator of the blast also died in the explosion, and that it is an isolated incident, and that there is no continuing threat to the community. Investigators, some wearing hazmat suits, continued to comb the wreckage to piece together information from the blast, but [link url=’https://www.cbsnews.com/news/allentown-pennsylvania-car-explosion-victims-today-2018-10-01/” title=”have not yet released the possible cause of the explosion”]. 
  10. [link url=”https://www.foxnews.com/us/hurricane-leslie-forms-far-out-in-atlantic-ocean” title=”Hurricane Leslie has formed far out in the Atlantic Ocean”], and is situated about 510 miles east-southeast of Bermuda. The Category 1 storm has sustained wind speeds of up to 80 mph, and is currently almost stationary, with some additional strengthening over the next 24-48 hours. [link url=”https://www.orlandosentinel.com/weather/hurricane/os-ne-hurricane-leslie-update-1003-story.html” title=”Leslie is not expected to be a threat to land”], so no watches or warnings have been issued, however, large swells are expected to continue to impact portions of the southeastern U.S., Bermuda, and the Bahamas for the next few days.