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.
Hawaiian Electric President Shelee Kimura acknowledged the company’s downed power line cause the first fire
Communities across the country pay tribute with moments of silence, tolling bells, candlelight vigils and other activities
Idalia is expected to make landfall Wednesday bringing storm surge and flooding
Invasive species are spreading more because of climate change as warmer weather moves into new areas, creating “little arsonist grasses” in the process.
Learn about strategies municipalities have used to not only rebuild after disaster but also strengthen community resilience ahead of the next one
The homeowner reimbursement program run by the Texas General Land Office reimburses homeowners up to $50,000 in out-of-pocket expenses to repair their Harvey-damaged homes, but there are a variety of regulations that determine eligibility.
In the case of disaster zones, municipal property taxes need to reflect the additional costs of public services like disaster relief that are often provided by state and federal authorities.
Interoperability has been a challenge for many agencies in the past, but it’s more possible than ever with coordination and care.
To avoid a state takeover, PG&E will need to emerge from bankruptcy next year with a safety plan in place to deal with outdated, hazardous infrastructure.
On Sunday, residents of Coffey Park, a neighborhood in Santa Rosa that was leveled in the Tubbs fire in 2017, received evacuation orders over the Kincade fire.
Kymeta’s hybrid platform enables reliable communications for first responders in a range of environments and field operations where deployment speed and high mobility are critical factors.
A PBS documentary details the devastating Camp Fire in Paradise, California, and suggests the tragedy could have been much less catastrophic had potentially life-saving emergency alerts gone out as intended
More than 900,000 people were without power Wednesday, some of them since Saturday, due to the PG&E power shut-offs. This included residents at an affordable housing complex north of San Francisco, a third of whom are too old, sick or cognitively impaired to care for themselves during an extended outage.
The current wildfire crisis in California should serve as an object lesson in the folly of expecting private enterprise to operate in the service of the public interest.
There’s no lack of proposals for managing wildfires more effectively, but what’s missing are perspectives from indigenous communities across North America
The idea for the new exhibit at Monmouth University in New Jersey is that the power of survival and rebuilding can “erase” the power of the storm and its destruction.
With a tornado bearing down on the small Missouri town of Sparta, the lone warning siren stayed silent because a downed tree kept the mayor from getting downtown to flip the switch that activates it.
Intense weather will overwhelm existing public and private infrastructure unless we adapt now and build more resilient communities.
Just because local government IT departments are underfunded doesn’t mean they can’t prepare for the next cybersecurity breach
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