The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) does not properly coordinate preparedness grant management between its headquarters and dependent regions, according to a recent Government ...
FEMA employees are briefed at a staging area in preparation of door to door canvasing in the New Orleans East area Feb. 12, 2017, where an EF3 Tornado struck February 7. (Photo by Sharon Karr/FEMA) ...
More than 180 Federal Emergency Management Agency employees sent a letter Monday to members of Congress and other officials, arguing that the agency’s direction and current leaders’ inexperience harm ...
Amid growing concerns within the Federal Emergency Management Agency that internal turmoil has left it unprepared for the fast-approaching hurricane season, the agency is taking significant steps to ...
The ouster of Cameron Hamilton, less than a month before the start of the hurricane season, came a day after he told lawmakers that FEMA was vital to communities “in their greatest times of need” and ...
I've been an emergency manager for nearly three decades, and one thing has never changed: All disasters begin and end at the local level. Whether I was leading emergency operations in a small town or ...