As disasters become more frequent and severe in the U.S., it's more important than ever to prepare. Every year, significant resources are poured into training programs for disaster management ...

The Homeland Security and Emergency Management Department is launching a volunteer training program focused on immediate ...

I just returned from a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) higher education conference and the International Association of Emergency Managers midyear conference with a fresh view of emergency ...

It is clear that we have a transitioning emergency management workforce with at least three generations of emergency managers now working together. That, plus how we mix the midcareer professionals ...

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — McAllen city staff and first responders attended a two-day training course on how to ...

It's a crowded Saturday morning at the downtown farmers' market in a major Midwestern city. It's tomato time. Peppers are ripe and red. There are food trucks, musicians, and—despite clouds to the west ...

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 ...

An image from an early version of an emergency training video -- still just an AI experiment -- shows a derecho hitting a Midwest farmer's market. AMES, Iowa – It’s a crowded Saturday morning at the ...

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 ...