Fire burns in the Mount St. Francis area of Colorado Springs, Colo., while firefighters continue to battle several fires in Waldo Canyon June 28, 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock ...

Elizabeth Zimmerman is the former FEMA associate administrator and deputy associate administrator for response and recovery from 2009 to 2017, where she led the response and recovery operations of 938 ...

A boat tossed by Hurricane Irma rests in the middle of a neighborhood street in No Name Key, Fla., on Sept. 22, 2017. (J.T. Blatty/FEMA) More than $100 million in federal mitigation grants have been ...

On May 3, Cyclone Fani wreaked havoc on the coastal areas of Odisha and West Bengal, before moving on to Bangladesh with relatively low intensity. In the eastern state of Odisha, where the cyclone’s ...

My August International Association of Emergency Mangers (IAEM) Disaster Zone column went live recently. See below for a copy of what I wrote. Try asking around for yourself with your peers and see ...

South Tahoe Public Utility District (STPUD) and Lake Valley Fire Protection District (LVFPD) invite community members to ...

The Virginia Department of Emergency Management announced today the receipt of two awards of pre-disaster funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. One award was received under the Flood ...

FAIRVIEW, NORTH CAROLINA - MARCH 29: A sign is seen outside the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center at the Fairview Public Library on March 29, 2025 in Fairview, North Carolina. (Photo by Allison ...

Weld County officials are welcoming public input as they update the county’s hazard mitigation plan. Hazard mitigation focuses on reducing or eliminating longterm risks caused by hazards such as ...

The Virginia Department of Emergency Management has received Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Awards received under this grant program help ...

The City Council unanimously approved an updated Local Hazard Mitigation Plan on Tuesday, a federally required document that makes Santa Monica eligible for disaster preparedness grants, despite vocal ...

Hurricane Dorian has decimated the landscape and lives of people and families throughout the Caribbean and Antilles and across the southeastern United States. Millions of lives have been disrupted, ...