Recovery

Social media is also a tremendous tool for emergency managers and they should be using it more, in most cases.

The idea, which could be used to rebuild some of the 10,000 houses destroyed in Louisiana floods.

Once they’ve proven they have what it physically takes to be a firefighter, women quickly gain the trust of their male peers.

The bureau has distributed them to law enforcement and other emergency agencies, but under Department of the Interior policy can't release them to the public.

The California Department of Transportation estimates that the winter’s pounding storms have caused $400 million in damage to California highways. And the worst may still be coming.

Water loss occurred in certain areas as a result of intermittent power outages that interrupted pumping stations.

By keeping less water behind the dam, Tacoma Power hopes to alleviate risks that might exist to downstream communities should an earthquake of at least 7.5 magnitude strike.

Independent experts familiar with the flood-control manual at Oroville Dam said Wednesday there’s no indication the 47-year-old document contributed to the ongoing crisis involving the dam’s ailing spillways.

They abandoned their encampments along the river, unsure where to go that night. Some spent the night among the city’s dead in a cemetery they hoped was on high enough ground.

All-hazard plan includes natural and manmade disasters and looks at rebuilding in Glynn County, Georgia.

The mandatory evacuation order for the estimated 188,000 affected people in Butte, Sutter and Yuba counties was pulled back to an evacuation warning.

Their practices are unlike those in Oakland, which has no apparent policy in place for officers or firefighters to notify code enforcement inspectors when they come across structures like the illegally converted Ghost Ship warehouse that burned Dec. 2, trapping and killing 36 people.

Volunteer pilots form disaster response teams that are ready to help.

Fire companies throughout the Pennsylvania commonwealth have been struggling to find enough volunteers for decades.

The cratering of the main spillway — which spiraled into the current crisis in Butte County, Calif., — occurred in a spot where cracks and other defects had been found repeatedly since 2009.