WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to ...

More than three dozen agencies were supporting the drill including Volusia County Emergency Management. Airport officials said any disaster at Daytona International would require a large response.

It’s a scene of utter devastation. Smashed automobiles, derailed train cars and piles of rubble are scattered across an apocalyptic landscape. Hard-hatted responders cling to nylon ropes alongside a ...

The plan should be considered a living document, reviewed and updated on a regular basis as the emergency team sees fit. Disaster. The word conjures concerns about school shootings, hurricanes, ...

To build capacity in green disaster risk management and response, WWF-Pacific staff and partners, recently underwent a three day ‘Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit’(GRRT) training in Suva. To ...

Charleen C. McNeill, PhD, MSN, RN, discusses key findings from a survey of nurses' emergency preparedness competence, the current state of emergency training, and what nurse leaders can do about it.

The first disaster addressed by the local CERT was an ice storm in 2005 that shut off power, blew down trees and iced over most of Richland County. "People said it reminded them of a war zone," ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A large-scale training exercise took place Saturday morning at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield for first responders. First responders were training for disasters that everyone hopes will ...

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...