The Federal Emergency Management Agency helps prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. Reporter Severe storms hit the Pittsburgh area earlier this week—killing three and causing ...

Lithium-ion battery incidents—ranging from fires and explosions to toxic emissions—pose growing threats to public safety and ...

Federal agencies sent thousands of personnel to support response efforts to recent disasters such as Hurricanes Helene and Milton and the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. But the concurrent disasters and ...

Asheville and Buncombe County have released their respective Tropical Storm Helene after-action reports, detailing their responses to the storm. Both reports acknowledged challenges like resource ...

Drawing on lessons from recent blazes, a state commission has released a series of recommendations to protect older adults.

Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said he wanted to begin “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this hurricane season to “wean off of FEMA” and “bring it down to the state ...

Uncertainty is hanging over this year’s hurricane season as meteorologists predict “above-normal” activity and the Trump administration sends shifting signals over the future of the federal government ...

Natural disasters—from tornadoes across the South and Midwest, to the fires in Los Angeles to Hurricane Helene’s devastation in North Carolina—have upended communities, with small businesses among the ...

Indonesia has begun mapping key challenges in handling floods and landslides across Sumatra after Home Affairs Minister Tito ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said ...