Recovery

Emergency managers review their protocols after Hawaii false alert.

Police, sheriffs, all the way up to the FBI gathered to hash out the challenges of a hypothetical worst-case scenario.

Council unanimously approved an ordinance to spend $434,000 for the replacement, maintenance and support of the 911 system.

PulsePoint is an interactive mobile app that alerts citizens within a 400-meter radius when someone suffers a Sudden Cardiac Arrest in a public place.

California Office of Access and Functional Needs aims to ensure these at-risk populations are supported in an widespread emergency.

A tsunami warning and a tsunami watch were issued from the western tip of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to San Diego in California in the wake of a 7.9 magnitude earthquake.

'It’s something that can always happen, like the earthquake, but what can you do?” he said. “Everyone is not just going to move.'

Fatigue remains a widespread problem for EMS workers because many work 24-hour or longer shifts and get little sleep.

Clairmont, 63, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser on Monday that he made the decision to retire a while ago but never told anybody about his plans to leave his job with the federal and state government.

Critics argue, however, that lifting the Reagan-era prohibition would only help bolster an “illusion” that nuclear war is winnable.

'Volusia County boil water notice. Residents are advised to boil water before consumption,' warned the notice. It was a mistake.

An estimated 9 million students in nine states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico missed some school in the fall from various natural disasters.

The first-of-its-kind study in the Houston area - called a Metropolitan Houston Regional Watershed Assessment - would examine 22 watersheds in the region, analyzing how stormwater moves from rooftops and streets to bayous and creeks.

The work is covered by a federal Disaster Relief Fund that does not depend on congressional action at this time.

Forty Washingtonians died from the flu in the past week, according to the Washington Department of Health, nearly doubling the total flu season count to 86 deaths.