Recovery

Her new book explains evolutionary pressure and how it can prevent preparedness.

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.

The new Hyper-Reach system is easy to use and easier to sign up for than the city’s last system.

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.

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.

Protecting first responders and curbing addiction and abuse are the goals.

'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.'

East Coast twisters are often more rain-wrapped than their western counterparts. Dark clouds obscure their shape and their precise location.

As they raced toward West Fertilizer Co., the firefighters had no established plan. They would just do what they always did: Show up, begin fighting the fire, then reassess.

'We have trained people here for years here, countywide, to pick up the phone and call 911 for everything.'

For good reason, most of us are not trained to share the responsibility of responding to an emergency.

'It’s hard to get someone to go at 2 a.m. if they have to get up at 5 a.m. just to get to work.'

FEMA recently made its first assessment of the damage to the campus and the city and expects it to declare the area eligible for disaster relief money as early as next week.

No one was reported seriously injured from the unusually powerful April storm that sent rivers of mud flowing into homes from Koloa on the south shore to Hanalei.

Dispatchers manage to stay calm even when a caller is in the midst of chaos and under stress because 'the emergency’s not here.'