Fires Grow Overnight at Preparedness Level 4; PJM Grid Emergency as Demand May Break the All Time Record; Tropical Storm 09W Threatens the Marianas at Possible Category 4 Strength

Today’s brief covers overnight growth on Utah’s Cottonwood and Babylon fires and Colorado’s Aspen Acres Fire as the nation holds at Preparedness Level 4 with 51 uncontained large fires, federal grid emergency orders for PJM as demand today could break the all time record during widespread extreme heat, a CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities addition for Microsoft SharePoint with a July 4 remediation deadline, Guam’s advisory on Tropical Storm 09W and a possible category 4 passage through the Marianas early next week, plus state updates from Arizona, California, Missouri, New Mexico, Washington, and more. EM Morning Brief is your concise daily update on national and state-by-state emergency management news. Produced by Sitch Radio, an EOC Voices podcast.Key Takeaways• Wildfire activity: The nation holds at Preparedness Level 4 with 51 uncontained large fires. Utah’s Cottonwood Fire leads at 93,918 acres and 5 percent containment, the Babylon Fire jumps to 70,735 acres at 0 percent, and Colorado’s Aspen Acres Fire grows to 47,953 acres with evacuations in Rye, Beulah, and Wetmore and more than 150 structures reported destroyed.• Grid emergency: DOE Section 202(c) orders for PJM run through 11:59 PM Eastern July 3, and peak demand today could break the 2006 all time record. Maryland, Virginia, DC, and Delaware sit in the highest stress zone; watch for conservation appeals.• Extreme heat: Warning level heat covers a large portion of the country from the Plains to New England through the July 4 holiday, with cooling center activations in Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York City, Indianapolis, and beyond.• Marianas typhoon threat: Tropical Storm 09W is forecast to intensify rapidly and could pass through Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands late Sunday into Monday at possible category 4 strength. Preparedness messaging is active now.• Cyber: CISA adds SharePoint flaw CVE-2026-45659 to the KEV catalog with a July 4 remediation deadline, and the SimpleHelp KEV remediation deadline falls today.• Severe weather: SPC places the northern Plains into the Upper Midwest under an Enhanced Risk today with very large hail and gusts above 75 mph possible; overnight storm damage reports are still developing in Minnesota and Iowa.• Water systems: LADWP issues a boil water notice for part of Koreatown after E. coli detections, while St. Louis lifts its precautionary boil water advisory.SponsorsThe NIMS Store - https://thenimsstore.com/Descript, Edit video by editing text - https://link.bcolburn.com/DB-DescriptESET, Cyber Security Progress. Protected. - https://refer.eset.com/hip7rSourcesNIFC and InciWeb• NIFC National Fire News: PL4, 51 uncontained large fires, Cottonwood Fire• NIFC Fuels and Fire Behavior Advisory: Colorado and southern Wyoming, July 1• InciWeb incident list: overnight acreage updatesFEMA• OpenFEMA disaster declarations: FM-5643-CO, Gold Mountain Fire FMAGCISA• Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: CVE-2026-45659 SharePoint, CVE-2026-48558 SimpleHelpDHS• National Terrorism Advisory System: no current advisoriesNOAA and NWS• SPC Day 1 Convective Outlook: Enhanced Risk northern Plains into Upper Midwest• NHC Atlantic tropical outlook: no development expected• NHC East Pacific outlook: Tropical Storm Douglas weakening• Weather.com: heat wave stretches into the July 4 weekGrid and Power• DOE: emergency orders secure Mid-Atlantic grid ahead of hot weather• The Hill: heat dome strains the power grid• Electric Choice: PJM demand forecast and record figuresUSGS• M 3.8 earthquake near Oak Harbor, Washington, event pageAlabama• WAAY: heat advisories continue through ThursdayAlaska• Alaska Wildland Fire Information: Martha Fire stopped at 5 acres near Soldotna• Alaska Wildland Fire Information: final Starry Fire update, evacuations liftedArizona• Arizona Emergency Information Network: Pocket Fire containment reaches 20 percent• InciWeb: Pocket FireArkansas• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: heat advisory and storm threatCalifornia• LADWP: boil water notice for small area of KoreatownColorado• InciWeb: Aspen Acres Fire• Colorado Sun: Wednesday Colorado fires update• InciWeb: Gold Mountain Fire• InciWeb: Snyder Fire• InciWeb: Ferris Fire• CPR: communities cancel July 4 fireworksConnecticut• Governor Lamont: Extreme Hot Weather Protocol activated through SundayDelaware• Delaware.gov: NWS issues Extreme Heat Warning for all of DelawareFlorida• <a...