Recovery

Would provide residents with further discounts on flood insurance, and also increase federal assistance if there were a disaster.

'Each of our honorees performed a specific heroic act or has committed his or her life to going above and beyond the call of duty.'

Fire suppression is cannibalizing the Forest Service budget, leaving fewer resources for research, restoration and range-land management.

Professor addresses the West's mega-fires, zoning commissions, politicians and more.

Complaints included those lodged by rebuffed volunteers, others who said their donations of materials were turned away.

The idea centers on creating a new public safety campus that combines police and fire headquarters, as well as a space that could be a command post during bad weather or other emergencies.

The website will strengthen the Greensboro, N.C., Police Department's partnership with communities by keeping them updated about neighborhood crimes.

Structural changes also alleviated some of the problems three years later during Hurricane Ike and should help the university the next time a major storm strikes Southeast Texas.

Training officer Joel Landis with the Somerset County, Pa., Hazmat Team helped land federal funding to organize a project for responders to prepare for railroad emergencies.

In Southern California, the mentality can be, 'It's not going to happen, and if it is going to happen, it's not going to happen to me.' But it might — so all of us should be prepared to be self-sufficient.

Firefighter Classic offers multiple courses over its three days.

If practice shapes performance, a generation of local residents was ready only to deal with false alarms and minor storms in September 2005.

Whether the shortage hampered the summer’s wildfire battle isn’t easy to gauge, but the concerns come as national, state and local firefighting resources have been outstripped by the unprecedented blazes.

Earthquake monitoring can now detect a quake and warn people before it arrives.

At least a few residents are known to have ignored evacuation orders and stayed in the area that burned.