FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

Iowa State researchers are working with Polk County Emergency Management to develop an online, multiplayer training game to help emergency forces plan and practice their disaster responses. AMES, Iowa ...

Pilots with California Disaster Airlift Response Teams are preparing for a simulated emergency response exercise — practice for critical flights to people and supplies around disasters such as ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to ...

CORRECTIONVILLE, Iowa (KTIV) - Wednesday night, Woodbury County Emergency Management’s best prepared for the worst during disaster survival training in Correctionville, Iowa. There, people had the ...

Last fall, Delaware experienced a record-breaking drought. October 2024 was the driest month in a century, with no measurable rainfall during a 42-day dry spell. With extreme heat and drought risks on ...

On the first Saturday in April, a Buffalo blizzard set the stage for a deadly traffic pileup resulting in serious injuries with the added risk of hypothermia. While a springtime snowstorm is nothing ...

State Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth, will propose a $300 million package to get more disaster training facilities statewide and to create a new response office under the governor. Oregon state Rep. Paul ...

The program is administered by the Hawai‘i County Civil Defense Agency. During large-scale disasters, such as hurricanes, ...