At the West Virginia State Fire Academy in Weston, local law enforcement and other emergency personnel are learning how to ...

President Trump is considering eliminating FEMA citing inefficiency. States and climate advocates say FEMA needs a fix but it also needs to stay.

The president issued an executive order Friday launching a year-long review of the agency’s recent disaster responses.

The Navajo Nation lacks uranium-specific emergency plans as multiple agencies struggle to coordinate response for nuclear shipments.

Recertification matters for EMRs for multiple reasons, but the basic one is compliance with regulations, as The National ...

Nearly three weeks after the Eaton Fire destroyed their Altadena home, Pete and Angela Mitchell need answers on what to do ...

Max Steingrubey, a third grader from Sappington Elementary, used skills learned during a school assembly to save his mother’s ...

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CSX today unveiled an addition to its Responder Incident Training program: Training locomotive CSXT No. 911343. The SD70M has ...

This is no game. The goal is to give law enforcement the best chance to save lives in real-life emergency-situations like an ...

A professional engineer said a deeper look into staff training and emergency preparedness protocols is needed at the Richmond ...

The recent D.C. aircraft collision puts a spotlight on civilian-military air traffic coordination - here's how pilots are trained to navigate the skies in Georgia.