Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

Natural disasters are often unexpected and can cause considerable damage to properties. Recent wildfires have highlighted the importance of disaster preparedness both personally and professionally.

When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...

You never know when disaster can strike. Inclement weather, natural disasters, and many other emergency situations may require the need to rapidly react to unexpected circumstances. The more prepared ...

Creating an emergency action plan is not always easy. With so many different moving parts, opinions, conflicting information, and the current global lockdown, it can be a real struggle to find ...

History is riddled with the tragic stories of cities, communities, organizations, and complexes that experienced devastation wrought by a natural disaster of some kind. In many (or even most) of these ...

A spring 2026 fundraiser is planned for the Somerset County Disaster Recovery Fund, which helps local communities recover ...

One of the main concerns in a nursing home when it comes to disaster planning is getting the people who live in the facility to safety. This presents a unique challenge because the residents cannot ...

TROPICS, IT’S HURRICANE SEASON, AND IT’S CRUCIAL TO MAKE SURE YOUR HOME AND FAMILY ARE PREPARED. WXII 12 METEOROLOGIST MICHELLE KENNEDY HAS SOME IMPORTANT STEPS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY CAN TAKE RIGHT NOW.

As North Carolina enters the second year of recovery from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, it's worth turning our ...

Texas inspectors verified that Camp Mystic had a written emergency plan just two days before the devastating flood killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of ...

Hurricanes are dangerous, destructive, and deadly, even if you don’t live near coastal areas. We’ve seen almost on repeat over the years, just how much hurricanes can devastate, all the way from the ...