FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

A public safety expert warned that the DHS shutdown could devastate local disaster response, with grant funding impacted as extreme weather threatens communities.

Now more than ever before, our world needs effective leaders who possess the skills – and cool heads – to effectively manage and proactively respond to public emergencies, disasters and catastrophes.

Emergency management is one of the most consequential functions in state government, yet in most states it is not positioned ...

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Amid a heightened risk of wildfires around the state, emergency management officials met at OKANA Resort on Tuesday for the start of the annual Oklahoma Emergency Management Association conference.

Native Americans are increasingly responsible for emergency management systems when a natural disaster hits a tribal community. Tribes can issue emergency declarations requests to open up help from ...

Disaster 101: This is part of a series that looks at how communities recover from extreme natural disasters and ways Duke experts are focused on rebuilding better. Disaster expert Brian McAdoo shares ...

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