States used to be on their own when a disaster hit. Then the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the Dust Bowl showed ...

Decades of disaster response history help explain how changes to FEMA’s structure have affected its ability to manage ...

Jonathan Cohn talk with an old friend Juliette Kayyem.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA and the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, confirmed to ...

Trump's expansion of federal authority over Washington, D.C., is in many ways unprecedented, but calls to mind other times ...

A FEMA review council that Trump established at the beginning of his second term is expected to release recommendations on the federal government’s disaster response in November.

Iredell County appoints Daryl Conley as its first Public Safety Director with extensive experience in public safety and emergency management.

The minimum training qualifications for all firefighters in New Jersey, both volunteer and career, include: Firefighter 1.

The Gabriel House assisted living facility did not perform fire drills or train workers in evacuation procedures and was also understaffed and poorly maintained, according to a current and former ...

A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of ...

State law allows fireworks firms to get state permission to import wholesale explosives without proving they have a safe place to keep them.

Most Americans go about their daily lives with quiet confidence that someone has their back. That if the river rises, or a ...