Keeping people safe and minimizing damages are the main goals of emergency management teams, but often these teams feel ...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says it has deployed its response team to Niger state following the recent ...

The fire is happening while Western North Carolina is under an increased fire danger warning due to gusty winds, making it ...

If you don’t think so, the East Pierce Intercoalition in Emergency Management is hosting a Community Emergency Response Team ...

A man died in an industrial accident at a sand pit in Fayette County. Emergency teams, including the Bryan Fire Department, ...

An outside fire has been reported on Bat Cave Road in Old Fort after a tree fell on a power line, local authorities said.

The city of Joliet has been holding meetings this week with any residents interested in joining the Community Emergency Response Team to create corps of volunteers to help in emergencies and big ...

The Point Pleasant Borough Office of Emergency Management (OEM) has been named by the American Red Cross as its New Jersey Central Region Com ...

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Rather than dismantling FEMA, we need to reimagine it as an elite federal agency capable of managing the increasingly complex and severe disasters of a polycrisis age.

The community itself down here has been more than supportive,” said Scott Means from Sparks Fire Department while he was still in Southern California. “We have people who cruise through our camp ...

Six weeks after a major disaster was declared for Mercer County, more than $2 million in federal aid has been approved for area residents. More than 955 households have registered with the Federal ...