Florida Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie addresses the State Emergency Response Team on Aug. 29, 2023, ahead of Hurricane Idalia impacts. (Florida Division of ...

Eighteen months ago, I wrote my first column for HSToday, “Five Challenges Facing Emergency Management,” identifying issues such as burnout, workforce development, climate change, public trust, and ...

Federal Emergency Management Agency employees are trained to respond to disasters, but have struggled this spring with the situation unfolding at their agency. While they've been deployed to wildfires ...

A FEMA search and rescue team searches debris in North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Disasters were declared in eight states due to damage from the storm. Reorganization at FEMA has ...

With weather catastrophes becoming more common in the United States these days, communities have counted on two facts. First, the federal government has their backs. When state and local resources are ...

In DePue, Ill., sewage will keep backing up into people's basements when there's heavy rain. In Rising Sun, Md., a mobile home park that has already flooded six times will remain in harm's way. And in ...

What would happen if a major windstorm, wildfire, or other disaster damaged your home and community and left you and fellow residents without food, water, or shelter for a long time? Are you and ...

A company whose earlier disaster recovery contract in North Carolina was marked with serious communications problems will return to run North Carolina’s disaster recovery program in western counties ...

Governor Laura Kelly issued a verbal state of disaster emergency proclamation due to an extended period of dangerous fire weather and the potential for extreme fire spread from Tuesday through ...