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One of the most experienced emergency response experts in the country, who lives in Maine, says the nation is becoming less prepared to respond to disasters.
FEMA's acting director, David Richardson, testified before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be a Cabinet-level agency that reports directly to the president under a new bipartisan bill. The proposal comes as the Trump administration ...
Emergency management experts warned that suddenly shutting off the funding and resources FEMA provides to local and state ...
Pennsylvania’s emergency director urged FEMA to reconsider policy changes that could raise aid thresholds and cost shares, ...
Proposed legislation to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which goes by the same acronym, the Fixing ...
Local and state governments are gearing up for the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season amid uncertainty about the future of federal disaster aid, but emergency management officials in Glynn ...
The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can ...
The head of FEMA offered no guarantees about the agency’s survival during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. He also ...
Rhetoric from Trump administration officials appears to be shifting more toward reforming the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), rather than axing it entirely. While the shift has been ...
As Trump visits Texas to see the impact of last week’s deadly flash floods, the White House has backed away from plans to ...