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 ...

David Richardson became the acting head of FEMA last week. After the acting head of FEMA was fired, the new acting administrator warned staffers not to "get in my way" and promised to "achieve the ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Friday that three national schoolhouses will resume in-person training for first responders after pausing in March ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Raleigh Fire Department hosted a special FEMA training on Friday. The disaster medical specialist training took place at the Keeter Training Center. One Raleigh firefighter ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s past recovery efforts have been impeded by staffing shortages, and officials are facing an ongoing hurricane season with even fewer employees, according to a ...

Minidoka Memorial Hospital’s emergency planning committee, consisting of staff members Mark Phillips, Gayla Staker, Kim Vega and Joel Rogers, recently completed Homeland Security training at the ...

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The Rock Hill school district is working to strengthen school safety through a proactive FEMA training program that will help staff members know what to do in the event of a disaster. The goal is to ...

As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials ...

"I will achieve the president’s intent," the new acting head of FEMA said on a recent staff call Tia Dufour After the acting head of FEMA was fired, the new acting administrator warned staffers not to ...

With hurricane season less than two weeks away, U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has cut its training for state and local emergency managers. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that ...