When Kim Newell arrived at work at 8 a.m. Wednesday, she already had 15 voice mails from suburban flood victims who needed cleanup help from the overnight deluge. Her office, Servpro of ...

Now more than ever before, our world needs effective leaders who possess the skills – and cool heads – to effectively manage and proactively respond to public emergencies, disasters and catastrophes.

A resident stops by a FEMA booth to gather information about hurricane preparedness May 31, 2018, at the Mayagüez Mall in Puerto Rico. (Michael Medina Latorre/FEMA) The first goal of the Federal ...

As an instructor for more than 30 years, I've become increasingly discouraged as more and more students demonstrate they can't apply conceptual thinking to relatively simple scenarios. And this is ...

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Even when we try to prepare for the worst and hope for the best, sometimes disasters happen. Just in June 2012, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has designated four major disaster areas ...

Austin Emergency Management recovered $34.7M in disaster costs in 2025, involving coordination with state and federal ...

Austin Emergency Management recovered more than $34 million last fiscal year in federal disaster reimbursements, covering ...

Syrian Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed al-Saleh met on Monday with the Libyan Ambassador to Syria, Walid ...