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Plus, a study explores the digital divide for tribal households in Michigan, a report indicates that better broadband data can improve deployment efforts, states are advancing with the BEAD program, and more.
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In light of federal plans to phase out FEMA by the end of 2025, artificial intelligence can help multiply and streamline state and local preparation for, response to and recovery from wildfires, hurricanes and floods.
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On Saturday, more than 200 volunteers, along with response teams from the American Red Cross, Salvation Army and Team Rubicon, were deployed to the tornado-ravaged streets of Taylorville to offer a helping hand to those in need.
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Many victims of natural disaster find themselves left out of the recovery often relying on the generosity of others to bounce back. Nonprofits and others provide assistance, but the process is difficult to navigate.
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Damages recorded by the city included flooded basements and vehicles, damages to boilers and electrical systems, water damage to personal belongings and furniture, property damage, damages to business equipment, collapsed walls near brooks and appliances damaged.
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The damage assessment for Crawford County after the F-1 tornado fell short of the 125 points to qualify for relief assistance from FEMA.
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The epicenter was just north of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center. It violently shook the most populous region of the state as people were settling in to work and school.
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Some 50 vehicles including a Cal Fire truck also were temporarily marooned. Those vehicles were eventually able to make it down the road when the rains eased and water stopped sluicing across the mountain road.
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'I had to wait for every house to burn down so I could see where I could take shelter and that’s when I saw the laundry room was not touched … I tried the laundry room door and it was open.'
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The report by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Inspector General urges FEMA to require that software used by local authorities to access and operate the emergency alert system include features such as the ability to preview or cancel alerts.
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“Is it possible that there could be a circumstance where someone was completely consumed by fire and therefore we wouldn’t have something that we could collect? I would say it is within the realm of possibility, unfortunately,” Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said Monday.
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With California experiencing two years of unprecedented wildfires that have left more than 20,000 homes destroyed and scores dead, the private firefighting business is booming.
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There was some good news on Sunday. More than two weeks after the deadliest fire on record in California swept through Butte County, killing at least 85 people and destroying 14,000 homes, officials announced that the massive Camp Fire was finally 100 percent contained.
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Flames ate through the secluded communities of Pulga and Concow before reaching the larger towns of Paradise and Magalia. By the end of the day, it was an inferno that would be seared into record books as the Camp Fire: California’s most destructive and deadliest wildfire.
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Like it did for Sonoma County, Calif., after the Santa Rosa fire in 2017, the digital government platform was able to launch a customizable portal for evacuation, shelter, donation and other info in a matter of days.
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The health of people breathing in smoke from the wildfires might well depend on the degree of their exposure and whether the microscopic particles floating in the air manage to worm their way deep into lungs and circulatory systems.
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'It was an urban conflagration,” Pangburn said. “It was structure-to-structure-to-structure ignition that carried the fire through this community.'