The North Bay Police Service is advising the public that there will be Emergency Response Team (ERT) training on January 29 ...

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Rather than dismantling FEMA, we need to reimagine it as an elite federal agency capable of managing the increasingly complex and severe disasters of a polycrisis age.

Of the 118,000 FEMA applications made following the L.A. wildfires made by Jan. 27, less than 20% have received approval for ...

The alliance works with 10 childcare agencies across L.A. County. The biggest impact was in the area of the Eaton fire, with at least 139 centers lost along, with family homes that provided child care ...

Team Blaze, trained for the sole purpose of fighting fires, could be immediately called up to active duty by the governor ...

Community groups are dusting off the rapid-response networks they built during President Trump's first administration to ...

A 57-year-old Hamilton man has been identified as the person found dead Tuesday inside a vehicle submerged in the Great Miami River in Hamilton. Damien T. Varner is the person discovered and pulled ...

Initial location: Los Angeles County, Calif. Eatonhurst Postfire Baer initially started 3:12 a.m. Jan. 18 in Los Angeles ...

President Trump criticizes FEMA, suggesting reforms amid disaster recovery challenges, including California wildfires. FEMA's ...

President Donald Trump on Friday teased that a major overhaul of the way the nation responds to natural disasters is in the ...

With special tools and techniques used by the Butler County Sheriff's Office, first responders quickly recovered a submerged car from the Great Miami River Tuesday, providing closure to the victim's ...