Recovery

Thousands of Texans are still waiting for help with temporary housing. Some have given up on the government.

Though emergency response plans have long been in place, 2017 presented lessons in public trust, public notification, emergency center organization and preparedness.

Data will help mitigate flood risk and aid in damage assessments.

It's still not clear what accounted for the fatal error that led to police being sent to the wrong house in the next town over.

But when bands of thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes roll across the countryside, these spotters are dispatched to key locations across Madison and other counties to report what's happening on the ground.

The rifles can have their place as history reveals, but there can be a cost as well.

The city would have to find new funding streams or cut existing programs in the budget to pay for the changes.

The award will pay for sensors, cameras and computer components at specific locations, along with warning lights and signs, set for installation this year.

'Producing maps the FEMA way essentially misses a lot of flood hazard.'

California’s mutual-aid system, created in 1950, has been described as the gold standard for wildland firefighting. But the resources haven’t kept pace with the growing threat.

The additional positions in the budget proposal include five deputies and 12 firefighters, part of the county’s effort to limit response times to 8 minutes or less for most emergency calls.

A community paramedic would visit the discharged patient’s home and 'medically monitor them' by checking their vitals, teaching family members how to use medical equipment the patient needs.

An emergency declaration by Gov. Charlie Baker allows the state to request and receive mutual aid assistance from other states through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.

Officials said in November the hospital would not meet state seismic regulations that will become effective next June because of the fault zone under the 94-year-old structure.

The '1-percent annual exceedance probability' is the statistical probability that a similar flood event will occur in a given year.