Emergency Management
Emergency Management is a critical function of local and state government agencies, involving the planning, coordinating, and executing responses to natural disasters, public health crises, and other emergencies. Effective emergency management ensures that communities are prepared, resilient, and able to recover quickly from unexpected events. This directory provides articles on emergency management and related topics like Public Safety, which explores broader strategies for protecting communities and ensuring their well-being during crises.
This year’s exercise simulated what it would take to help ensure mission-critical communication capabilities during a large-scale event with over 100,000 attendees, as well as during a cyber attack and a terrorist attack
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For the McKeehans, their now uninhabitable house was a dream come true 20 years ago. And now they’re looking for help to start over.
Southeast Texas has seen a series of explosions in recent years up and down the Texas Gulf Coast.
The lawsuit’s goals are to determine what went wrong when police were unable to locate Kyle Plush after he made two 911 calls and to make sure it doesn’t happen again, the family said.
It’s a compounding problem: Year after year, storms batter roads and homes, but federal recovery funding is restricted to damage from a single disaster and a specific timeframe.
A series of winter storms has dumped several feet of unusual snow on parts of western Washington state. Some communities have been without power for days.
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Since the beginning of 2014, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has counted 42 dams that have failed.
“California stands with the people of Puerto Rico,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom. “Our nation-sized state knows first-hand the devastating toll of natural disasters, and we will provide aid and support as our brothers and sisters rebuild and recover.”
Storm-related fatalities were reported in Texas due to icy weather, in Alabama from a deadly tornado and in Louisiana, where winds were so strong that a trailer home was lifted off its foundation and carried several hundred feet.
Telecommunications outages have worsened as wildfires have become more common and more destructive. A report from the California Public Utilities Commission found 85,000 wireless customers and 160,000 wired customers lost service during the 2017 North Bay Fires.
Practically speaking, there’s a big difference between scanning a network for vulnerabilities and actually breaking into it and extracting sensitive information. But that doesn’t mean these efforts don’t undermine the public’s trust.
Recent earthquakes hit a region still struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria’s devastation two years ago
Surfside is pioneering what appears to be a first of its kind solution for residents in the decades to come: a fund for potential buyouts. The new Resilience Fund houses money from developers with an equal match from the town.
The bulk of the borrowing proposal would go toward reducing wildfire risk throughout the state. It also includes money to protect farmland from climate change, bolster the state’s scarce water sources and help coastal communities plan for sea level rise.
The school’s mission is intricately tied to the state’s future. A multitude of issues from the leveeing of the Mississippi River to oil and gas development have made Louisiana ground zero for coastal land loss.
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