The U.S. emergency & disaster management system is undergoing its second major transformation since 9/11. Without continued ...

In the 1970's, California (U.S.) resources were severely taxed by major wildfire outbreaks. These incidents required the cooperation of multiple agencies that did not usually work together. Many ...

From inside a burning house, the muffled voice of a missing firefighter crackled through the radio, uttering a distress call: “Mayday.” But on that day in 2003, as flames strangled the single-family ...

(TNS) - A consultant's report on the official response to the Almeda and South Obenchain fires largely confirmed what everyone who lived through the disasters already knew: firefighters and other ...

This story is republished from Grist. Read the original article. As thousands waited on federal government assistance after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans residents came up with their own ...

The Texas Division of Emergency Management announced a statewide test of local emergency alert systems for April 2 as part of ...

A recent World Bank report notes that the impact of extreme natural disasters is equivalent to a global $520 billion loss in annual consumption, and forces some 26 million people into poverty each ...

The Small Business Administration’s new centralized disaster management system may not be in a position to provide efficient relief for small businesses destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, according to ...