On Saturday Los Angeles County Supervisor District 3 Lindsey Horvath hosted an emergency preparedness event at Los Angeles Mission College in Sylmar, a day of information and hands-on activities to ...

Ideally, you’d have weeks or days to prepare for an extreme weather. But the reality is, especially with floods, wildfires, and tornadoes, things change quickly. That’s why it’s critical to plan in ...

Amid tragedy and loss, communities can struggle to rebuild themselves after a disaster. But Duke experts say experience shows there is a way. Finding hope will require looking at past disasters and ...

Not to be a Debbie Downer, but you never think about emergency preparedness kits until you actually need one. With the current heat wave frying the nation and climate change predicted to revamp the ...

Officials say emergency preparedness doesn't have to be complicated; just a few essentials, all in one place, can help you ...

Storm season rolls around like clockwork every year, yet emergency officials keep sounding the same alarm. Despite repeated ...

A string of recent natural disasters has increased awareness of the dangers, yet nearly one-third of Americans haven’t taken financial steps to prepare for a natural disaster, and less than one-third ...

Kern County Grand Jury report reveals critical emergency preparedness gaps, including vacant leadership and insufficient ...

Senior leaders from the V.I. Department of Health and the V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency met Thursday with ...

The day after President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, Eric Shonkwiler looked at his hiking bag to figure out what supplies he had. “I began to look at that as a resource for escape, should that ...

Free CERT training begins Feb. 19 in Detroit, teaching residents disaster response, first aid, and emergency preparedness ...

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