Nearmap conducts rapid aerial imagery captures across the United States following natural disasters, often flying more than ...

How well can your school district handle an unexpected emergency? School shootings are the most publicized and frightening, but school emergencies can include natural disasters like snowstorms, ...

This article examines the significance of establishing a legal foundation for maintaining balance in emergency management, emphasizing the importance of legal and risk management systems in disaster ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA -- Disaster Management Systems, Inc., the nation's leading supplier of disaster preparedness solutions, announced the availability of a new tabletop training kit designed to ...

From inside a burning house, the muffled voice of a missing firefighter crackled through the radio, uttering a distress call: “Mayday.” But on that day in 2003, as flames strangled the single-family ...

Officials conduct a preliminary damage assessment in Suffolk, Va., following a tornado in May 2008. Photo courtesy of Liz Roll/FEMA. It’s easy to quantify success more than two years after the ...

For workers, safety drills are often an opportunity to step out for a moment and gain a minute of respite in an otherwise busy day. But for the safety officers in charge of organizing and executing ...

Dennis and Ken Ortiz are in the business of disaster. The Ortiz brothers, both captains for the Los Angeles County Fire Department, run a small business that provides tools emergency crews can use to ...

Emergency Management, whether conceived as a management system or an operational unit of government, should not be in the ‘business’ of managing global pandemics. While pandemics are certainly ...

Professor Lee Miles received funding from the UK's Global Research Challenges Fund (GCRF) under the auspices of Driving African Capacity-Building in Disaster Management (AFRICAB) Research Project, ...