Recovery

Weather is everywhere and it impacts everyone!

This year's season, from June 1 through Nov. 30, could be more active than those the past couple of years.

About 50 role-players acted as student witnesses and victims while paramedics and firefighters teamed up with police officers and deputies.

Several colleges and universities have been given permission to activate alerts through Wireless Emergency Alerts and other tools of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System.

This will be shown the evening of May 24.

NOAA has finally done modeling on the issue of a tsunami from a Cascadia earthquake.

Disaster resilience calls for both security and natural hazard preparedness efforts to be merged.

The clock is ticking and there is much to be done in 2016 to be ready for 2017.

Looks like something I would have liked early in my emergency management career.

The bill would allow first responders to open and manually maintain an airway, administer oxygen, control a hemorrhage, and — if authorized — administer naloxone hydrochloride, also known as Narcan.

A new system would replace equipment on local radio towers, in the dispatch offices and on the officers and emergency personnel all throughout the county.

'People often don’t respond to the initial sound of a gunshot as an emergency. They respond with curiosity, which of course is dangerous to them.'

Yes, climate change is creating conditions for the extraordinary wildfires near Fort McMurray, Alberta, but El Niño played a bigger role, says atmospheric scientist.

The fake incident played out like this: A lone shooter with a book bag entered the library where he killed and wounded several people. He moved about the first floor and up to the second floor where he stood his ground in a back room.

The hazmat group was formed as a way to help when hazardous materials have been mishandled.