Hurricane Katrina and other disasters have given us a series of emergency preparedness wake-up calls. Do we pay attention now or continue to hit the snooze button? Let’s look at the most important ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced the termination of its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, a grant initiative designed to ...

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. — The Citizen Preparedness Corps met with members of the public at the Ballston Spa Public Library recently to go over disaster preparedness and emergency planning. The Corps ...

Across the United States, communities are experiencing storms, heatwaves, floods, and wildfires at a frequency and intensity once unimaginable. At the same time, aging infrastructure, overburdened ...

U.S. national security emergency plans are well documented with a disciplined approach, but their lack of coordination across agencies puts the United States in peril, say a group of government and ...

President Trump has issued a message marking September as National Preparedness Month, emphasizing his administration’s commitment to strengthening disaster readiness across the country. In the ...

Despite another record-breaking summer of brutal heat waves and wide-scale flooding, the majority of Americans say they don’t feel entirely prepared for a natural disaster. In fact, almost half of ...

Storm season rolls around like clockwork every year, yet emergency officials keep sounding the same alarm. Despite repeated ...

Meteorologists confirmed more than 74 tornadoes ravaged the Midwest over a two-day period in November, leaving 10 dead and hundreds injured in Illinois and Indiana alone. It is proof that communities ...

UC Health officially cut the ribbon on a new center to provide emergency medical care on Monday.The new Emergency Preparedness & Response Center is located on the University of Cincinnati Medical ...