Natural Disaster
The Pack Fire near California’s Nevada border has damaged at least 15 structures, closed part of Highway 395
Investigators found serious emergency planning lapses at MonteCedro in Altadena and The Terraces at Park Marino in Pasadena, where elderly women were left behind as flames closed in
A new after-action report on January’s catastrophic Palisades Fire praises officers’ heroism but details major coordination breakdowns, unclear command structures and recordkeeping lapses
The lightning strike appears to have gone through a vent overhead and then struck the toilet, Okmulgee firefighters said
The president approved a disaster declaration that brings new financial resources to remote stretches of the state devastated by fire since early April
The Emergency Management Performance Grant helps governments make key investments so that they can better respond to disasters
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The best way to avoid analysis-paralysis during an MCI is to ‘get some of your thinking out of the way’ beforehand
After a tornado tore through Mayfield, fire crews searched for survivors, evacuated the local jail, and mourned a friend
First responders were able to access a girl with muscular dystrophy from inside the crumbled home
The Weather Channel released footage of a tornado that appeared to touch down in a New Orleans suburb and would later cross the Mississippi River
An honest and objective community assessment will highlight the many potential MCI events that could occur in any jurisdiction
“We’re just so proud as a department to be able to help out,” said Lt. Kevin Richard of the Rochester Fire Department
As 3 people in Colorado are still missing after last week’s blazes, experts warn of a widening threat of wildfire
There have been no immediate reports of deaths in the aftermath of the wind-whipped blaze outside Denver
Other area departments and businesses joined the Reese & Community Volunteer Fire Company in Westminster to send the vehicle, hoses and tools
Video shows the thrashing storm as Rudd Firefighter Tyler Hicks kept the siren going to warn the community
“Just because we’ve come home, it doesn’t mean that it is over,” said Lexington Captain Ryan Hogsten
“There are going to be a lot of families not having Christmas,” said Lower Augusta Fire Department Chief Mark Minnier
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
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.
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Eyewitness accounts described fireballs, mass drownings, an atmosphere marked more by flame than sky and a veritable hurricane of fire
Chief Andrew Morgan swapped his Battalion 22 vehicle for a high-axle truck typically used to battle brush fires
The newly released footage shows the work of first responders during last week’s severe storm from the remnants of Hurricane Ida
Storm remnants from Hurricane Ida caused torrential rain, flooding and tornadoes in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
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 town of McEwen was pummeled with about 17 inches of rain in less than a day, prompting water rescues, road closures and communications disruptions
The Northern California blaze now encompasses 253,052 acres – an area eight times the size of San Francisco
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