Many articles are written about all of the disciplines in the public safety sector, and both fire operations and EMS have been the focus of many available journals. Yet, emergency management has been ...

In 2022, the United States experienced 18 separate weather and climate disasters costing at least one billion dollars according to NOAA. In 2023, that number rose to 28 separate billion dollar weather ...

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 ...

Prevention focuses on preventing hazards from occurring, whether they are natural, technological or caused by humans. Not all hazards are preventable, but the risk of loss of life and injury can be ...

My personal specialty is emergency management and dealing with disasters. The current nonsensical debate on the wearing of protective face coverings, a.k.a. face masks, illustrates many disaster ...

The World Bank Group works with the government of India on implementation of its National Disaster Management Plan, with assessing risks and incorporating disaster risk information into development ...

The project has helped improve the disaster early-warning and forecasting capacity for the Southern hydrometeorology authority and also improved the planning capacity for integrated disaster risk ...

On May 16, 2001, Joe Allbaugh, President Bush's first director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee and laid out the administration's ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] WASHINGTON — A new disaster mitigation program enacted into law last year received a resounding endorsement from a Federal Emergency ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – The Emergency Management Division is asking the public for their input on hazard mitigation efforts as the peak of hurricane season nears. Emergency Management director ...

MANTEO, N.C. — Hurricane season will be here before we know it, and Dare County emergency management officials are planning ahead for that and a variety of other potential emergencies. Officials ...