FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

Michigan State University Extension is inviting anyone interested in animal emergency disaster response to participate in an ...

[Photo: An aerial view of a house in Gilchrist, Texas, that survived the destruction of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. Courtesy of Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA.] Natural disasters are becoming more ...

Facility emergency response plans identify specific types of hazards, risks and circumstances that could harm people or the environment. They also document the tools and tactics that will be used to ...

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

Are you prepared to respond in the event of an emergency? Whatever form a situation takes—from natural disaster to infectious outbreak—it's most important that all students, faculty and staff are ...

As emergency operations evolve, emergency operations centers (EOCs) are adopting cutting-edge technologies increasingly more to improve response times, resource allocation and decision-making during ...

Recognition of faith-based groups as vital cogs in emergency preparedness, response and recovery efforts is on the rise. In 2009, faith-based organizations were formally recognized on a national level ...