What’s wrong with the U.S. disaster-response system? And why have the U.S. government and nonprofit groups failed to reassure the public and Congress that they can effectively respond to a large-scale ...

January 07, 2026 – PRESSADVANTAGE – Hydro Heroes, a Southwest Washington-based water damage restoration company, has deployed ...

Los Angeles is a global city renowned for its world-class events. But behind the glimmering lights of Hollywood lies a critical vulnerability: an outdated emergency response system that was built in ...

The following excerpt is drawn from the Prologue of Disaster Nation, a new book by David J. Alexander that examines how America’s disaster response system has become reactive, fragmented, and fiscally ...

As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. enters another dangerous season with a fractured national emergency response system. Katrina showed what happens when truth and trusted communication are ...

IT’S CALLED 911 NURSE PRACTITIONERS. AND WHAT IT WILL DO IS BRING NEW COMPREHENSIVE CARE TO MISSISSIPPI WHEN AN EMERGENCY HAPPENS, YOU CALL 911. FROM THERE, A DISPATCHER SENDS AN AMBULANCE TO GET THE ...

As the Guadalupe River in Texas rose with alarming speed—26 feet in just 45 minutes—emergency teams raced to save lives. But as the disaster unfolded, the acting head of the Federal Emergency ...

SEOUL: The 119 emergency response system plans to utilise artificial intelligence (AI) to find the most optimal routes to ...

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has drafted a National Disaster Telecommunication Plan to strengthen emergency ...