Norwalk, along with a dozen other area towns, will now be able to set up emergency shelters wherever they need to be deployed. Each of the 14 towns in the Region 1 Emergency Planning Team -- which ...

The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency is seeking companies that can provide incident staging base, or ISB, and cross-docking operations support to enhance the ...

Hurricane Helene damaged more than 70,000 homes in North Carolina, yet in the storm's aftermath, FEMA placed just 243 families in temporary trailers, mobile homes and apartments, a WCNC Charlotte ...

A file photo taken in February when State Rep. Monica Robb Blasdel stopped by Columbiana’s municipal offices, where they had just accepted receipt of their $250,000 mobile command trailer from Mobile ...

Today, the entirety of Canton’s town hall can be walked through in less than a minute. In the middle of a field of gravel, not far from the heart of downtown, Canton’s town hall sits inside a tin, ...

As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials ...

Before the Sabine River flooded Deweyville in March 2016, Larry Albright said he piled his belongings on top of tables and the refrigerator. But the furniture and home appliances were no match for the ...

MARTINEZ – Across the Bay Area, county officials responsible for emergency planning are bracing for the economic aftershocks should President Donald Trump make good on promises to eliminate the ...

A trailer housing thousands of dollars of emergency supplies, including medical supplies and radios was stolen from the 2700 block of Foothill Avenue in La Crescenta. The trailer, which serves as the ...

President Trump says the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, should be eliminated, and that states should take on more responsibility for responding to and preparing for extreme weather and ...

It felt like the longest two hours of Karen Stirewalt’s life, from the harrowing realization that Big Sandy Creek was going to sweep away her house, to the agonizing wait for emergency responders who ...