After catastrophic damage, how does a community rebuild? This an introduction to the disaster management cycle. Disaster 101: This is part of a series that looks at how communities recover from ...

BOSTON — As towns and cities see a rise in natural disasters that require greater emergency response than their local resources can support alone, two Western Massachusetts lawmakers renewed their ...

Hurricane Harvey survivor Pablo Garcia receives disaster assistance at his front door from Liana Bates-Hall, FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) Crew Lead, and Lauren Cutler, right, FEMA Corps DSA ...

This hurricane season marks 20 years since Katrina made landfall—its devastation stretching far beyond the flooded streets of New Orleans. It was a disaster that permanently changed communities, ...

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Imagine a world in which a hurricane devastates the Gulf Coast, and the U.S. has no federal agency prepared to quickly send supplies, financial aid and temporary housing assistance. Could the states ...

Florida International University kicked off its 10th annual disaster field exercise today, marking a decade of preparing hundreds of students for careers in disaster management. “Disasters are ...

The Trump administration’s cuts to the Federal Emergency Management Agency are putting the country at risk of being unprepared to respond to massive natural disasters this year, Congress’ watchdog ...