Emergency Management
FEMA is now accepting applications for over a dozen grant programs to support emergency readiness, including natural disasters and cyber threats
FEMA acting administrator David Richardson defended the agency’s response, denying claims of delays and calling the federal-state coordination a model for disaster response
A proposed federal budget would eliminate funding for over half of FEMA’s emergency and homeland security grant programs, for training, equipment and readiness efforts
Crews and team members from within the state, plus Calif. and Texas have been dispatched
Rescuers have had to crawl over the dead to get to the living, said Jeremy Creason, Mayfield’s fire chief and emergency services director
Community support and agency coordination will be essential to assist search, rescue and recovery missions across the Midwest
Battalion Chief Jordan Saas said 8 of those sent are collapse specialists, and 2 will be on the incident management team
National Guard members and emergency workers from across the state were pouring into Mayfield to help with a search and rescue operation
Dozens of emergency vehicles also responded to a roof collapse at the Amazon center near Edwardsville, Ill.
The Caldor Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes and other buildings and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate
The $32 million 40-acre San Diego-area facility includes a track where fire, police and EMS personnel can practice driving emergency vehicles
A department report shows that 100+ members live out of state, forcing shift trades and hampering response efforts to major incidents
The report concludes that an inadequately prepared crew delivered an ineffective fire response at the 2020 arson fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard
Division Chief Angela Bernheisel said a trifecta of weather conditions came together to quickly move prescribed burn embers
FirstNet, warning systems focus of House subcommittee update
The kits are part of the city’s new Safe Chicago program, and are equipped with a tourniquet, gauze, shears, gloves and an instruction manual
“It’s a big scary mess, and we honestly don’t know if the help is there beyond waiting out the current circumstance and hoping more people come in to the medical field”
Ambulances from several towns and companies could be seen parked along Main Street on both sides of the hospital
Storm remnants from Hurricane Ida caused torrential rain, flooding and tornadoes in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
As flames moved toward the Heavenly ski resort, officials turned on the mountain’s snow-making machines
Detailing the logistics to keep firefighter camps up and running during fire season
Hospitals, ICUs are filled with patients from the fourth COVID surge, sparked by the highly contagious delta variant and low vaccination rates across the state
Forty-five members of the elite rescue team were sent to a staging area in Alabama as the Category 4 storm made landfall in Louisiana
The XRU from ESI is purpose-built to carry a heavy payload and navigate rough terrain without compromising speed, stability or safety
Fort Atkinson Fire Chief Daryl Rausch said crews will let the rest of the building and its contents burn out overnight
“We are trying to do the best we can,” said Jake Cagle, California Incident Management operations section chief
“We did everything we could,” fire spokesman Mitch Matlow said. “Sometimes it’s just not enough”
The Northern California blaze now encompasses 253,052 acres – an area eight times the size of San Francisco
Chiefs Pfeifer and Schwartz, Commissioner Cassano and FBI Special Agent Combs came together for the first time during Fire-Rescue International 2021
“Until things settle down, we won’t know the extent of what’s burned,” fire spokesperson says of unpredictable blaze
What firefighters must understand about downed power lines and other energy sources
Tackling questions from the FireRescue1 community about how to best prepare for fires involving this increasingly common technology
The vehicle is fully powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, mitigating the need for diesel generators that produce toxic fumes
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