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Providers in St. Louis were awarded the money through the Missouri Department of Health’s Crisis Counseling Program, which has for decades been funded by FEMA to help build hope and resiliency in disaster survivors. -
When Typhoon Halong devastated Western Alaska last month, the hardest-hit communities were accessible only by air or water. That complicated response efforts and makes rebuilding a challenge.
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Nationwide, only about 4 percent of firefighters are women, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, even as that figure has risen to about 14 percent in police work and the military. -
Two battle-tested technology chiefs share lessons from the front lines of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
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Proposal calls for two sets of floodgates on Long Island's south shore, at East Rockaway Inlet and Jones Inlet — places where water passes behind barrier beaches toward densely populated Nassau County.
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At least 120 people in the isolated communities of Wainiha and Haena remain cut off from the rest of the island because of more than a dozen landslides.
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Because of the warming atmosphere, the type of storms that produced the record flooding 156 years ago will probably be three to four times more frequent by the end of this century.
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“For some it will take weeks, for some months, for others years” to resume their lives, Acting City Manager David Parrish told reporters Sunday.
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The threat to aging dams and flood-control networks will increase. The wildfire threat will grow more extreme.
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A natural disaster is a terrifying event for anyone to experience. For elderly citizens, or those living with a disability, a natural disaster or local emergency can be that much more frightening and challenging to manage.
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Her new book explains evolutionary pressure and how it can prevent preparedness.
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A newly released report from The Nature Conservancy and the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom indicates 41 million Americans live in areas at risk of flooding, three times more than official Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates.
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The new Hyper-Reach system is easy to use and easier to sign up for than the city’s last system.
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On the front end of a disaster, churches need to address a lack of food and water, medical assistance and short- and long-term housing. On the back end, churches should focus on grief and trauma.
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Turning bystanders, folks at church, folks at the gas station across the street into lifesavers is the goal of the first responder training available to community members.
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Protecting first responders and curbing addiction and abuse are the goals.
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'I think you've got a complacent citizenry. I don't think they realize the Georgia coast got hit 14 times from 1850 to 1900.'
