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September is Emergency Preparedness Month and Beckley-Raleigh County Emergency Management team members want to make sure you ...
A web-enabled emergency management system that was designed for Department of Defense installations is deployed and operational at Redstone. The Physical Security Integration Framework-Interconnection ...
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 ...
Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The Federal responses to Hurricane Helene and other recent disasters demonstrate the need to drastically improve the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (“FEMA’s) ...
Being prepared to manage emergency response requires continuous learning and certification. An employee at the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity has become one of a select few emergency management ...
In critical minutes and hours when deadly flash floods hurtled down the Guadalupe River washing away children’s camps and RVs, the county official responsible for coordinating emergency response was ...
Emergency-management professionals are burned out after handling a year of crises like the pandemic. With agencies at all levels activated, support systems were strained and many felt overworked. Some ...
FROM STATE OFFICIALS. ERIN, OFFICIALS ARE SAYING THAT ANYONE WHO PLANS TO SPEND TIME OUTDOORS TODAY SHOULD HAVE A WAY TO TRACK THOSE INCOMING DOWNPOURS. TAKE A LIVE LOOK HERE AT THE PEMIGEWASSET RIVER ...
The Office of Management and Budget and National Security Council — both part of the Executive Office of the President — are struggling to obtain basic information from FEMA on a slew of emergency ...
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday tapped a Cook County official to run the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security. Theodore “Ted” D. Berger most recently worked ...