To strengthen disaster preparedness, response, and recovery, Charlotte County Board of Commissioners has made Emergency ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia is in need of long-term disaster case managers. Catholic Charities of West Virginia ...

The laborious work of cleaning up and analyzing the damage left behind from back-to-back natural disasters continues in south ...

The job cuts expected this month are part of a plan by the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to remake the agency.

Prepare, mitigate, respond, recover. It’s a cycle I have been through thousands of times. Navigating hundreds of disasters and crises ranging from small to seemingly impossible is all part of the job ...

In Part I of this two-part series I discussed how in my extensive career in emergency management at various government levels, I’ve led successful agencies through accreditation processes. Recognizing ...

It’s been a tough year for residents of Perry County, Kentucky, and the federal government isn’t making it much easier right now. Raging flood waters ravaged the mountain county of 28,000 last year, ...

The day-to-day recovery from the Palisades fire is being led by L.A.’s Emergency Management Department, a long-underfunded agency. Mayor Karen Bass hired Hagerty Consulting to help EMD with recovery, ...

In past years Kaua'i has experienced devastating tropical cyclones, wildfires, flooding, high surf and wave events. In response, the County of Kaua'i has developed a framework to help Kauaʻi's ...

Nearly a year after Hurricane Helene ripped through Western North Carolina, John Council still keeps an overnight bag packed. The storm flooded roads, knocked out power for more than two weeks, and ...