(TLP:CLEAR) Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – September 4, 2025

The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.

Natural Hazards/Climate Change

• Gulf on alert for hurricanes during 2nd half of September – AccuWeather
• September Lightning Complex fires scorch over 13,700 acres in Central California; some evacuations downgraded – CBS News
• Lightning-sparked wildfires destroy historic Chinese Camp in Tuolumne County – ABC 30
• Hurricane Lorena could bring rain to US Southwest: See path tracker – USA Today
• Wildfire disasters are increasingly in the news, yet less land is burning globally – here’s why – Conversation
• Erin joined a long list of recent Category 5s. Are they happening more often? – Washington Post
• 2025 Fall Package – Climate Central

Operational Resilience

• Exclusive: Electromagnetic weapon zaps drone swarm in seconds – Axios
• An experimental NOAA tool that predicts hourly wildfire hazards across the U.S. – NOAA
• Storm-Proofing Wastewater Infrastructure: Strategies To Protect Coastal Cities – Water Online
• Do You Work in a Power Outage Hot Spot? – Security Management Magazine
• AI Could Solve America’s Infrastructure Problem. Institutions Need To Let Engineers Use It. – Water Online
• Buckling rails and lines underwater: how Australia’s ageing train networks are crumbling as the climate changes – Conversation
• Employees Are ‘Quiet Cracking’ Under Workplace Pressure – Security Management Magazine
• Foreign disinformation enters AI-powered era – Axios
• A Sixth Framework? Civil Defense and the Future of Emergency Management – Domestic Preparedness
• PERSPECTIVE: Public Broadcasting Saves Lives – Homeland Security Today
• Water Conservation And Reuse For Data Centers – Water Online

Extremism/Terrorism

• The Evolving Landscape of Domestic Extremism – Domestic Preparedness
• Rare police shooting reveals how a US imported belief system is becoming more violent in Australia – CNN
• Minor Arrested and Charged With Islamic State Terrorism Offences in Montréal – Homeland Security Today
• Vermont man facing terrorism charges following school bomb threat – NBC 5
• Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Accounts, Including Accounts Sharing Bomb Making Instructions, Found on TikTok, Extreme Right Telegram Users Promote Antisemitism Following Minnesota Catholic School Shooting – Counter Extremism Project