Emergency officials on the South Carolina coast are looking at Superstorm Sandy to try to learn ways to better prepare...
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Authorities shut transit systems and ordered some evacuations as tens of millions of people on the East Coast braced on...
It’s been three years since an ice storm paralyzed the western Kentucky region and emergency service coordinators say they’re better...
Montana is at risk of becoming less prepared to respond to disasters and public-health emergencies because of state and federal...
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple has unveiled a $569 million plan to provide disaster aid to flood-stricken areas and to...
Even after 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, most Americans have a false sense of security when it comes to their readiness...

When the next devastating earthquake strikes off the Northwest coast, it is expected to send a tsunami so fast that...
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says federal. emergency agencies constantly rehearse for a disaster like the one unfolding in Japan,...
Nashville Mayor Karl Dean says the city has assembled a team to develop a unified flood preparedness program to lessen...