More than three dozen agencies were supporting the drill including Volusia County Emergency Management. Airport officials said any disaster at Daytona International would require a large response.

It’s a scene of utter devastation. Smashed automobiles, derailed train cars and piles of rubble are scattered across an apocalyptic landscape. Hard-hatted responders cling to nylon ropes alongside a ...

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 ...

CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. - Alabama National Guardsmen assigned to the 1152nd and 1153rd Firefighting Team Detachment, 877th Engineer Battalion, 226th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, utilized technical ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The American Red Cross of Southern Missouri is in need of disaster response volunteers and is hosting a training course in August. A press release from the Red Cross says the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to ...

The first disaster addressed by the local CERT was an ice storm in 2005 that shut off power, blew down trees and iced over most of Richland County. "People said it reminded them of a war zone," ...

(TNS) - It was a practice in preparing for the worst, in case real disasters were ever to occur. That’s the primary purpose behind a three-day disaster training exercise in rural Nodaway County, east ...

Soldiers from Company C, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, completed their Evacuation Disaster training with a ...

CORRECTIONVILLE, Iowa (KTIV) - Wednesday night, Woodbury County Emergency Management’s best prepared for the worst during disaster survival training in Correctionville, Iowa. There, people had the ...