The U.S. emergency & disaster management system is undergoing its second major transformation since 9/11. Without continued federal grant funding and support from DHS and FEMA, the U.S. emergency and ...

Part two examines Emergency Management focused on building strong state and local programs less reliant on federal support.

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 ...

Idaho Governor Brad Little has issued a "state disaster declaration" in order to support emergency efforts in Clearwater, ...

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 ...

A new report by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) presents a tool for conducting an initial broad-based assessment of the resilience of a country’s health system to ...