Recovery

Since it was approved for purchase in 2015, Daviess County Emergency Management Agency and Parks and Recreations have been using the ping4alerts! system to send alerts to people who have downloaded the app.

They are considered 'emerging contaminants' because of limited data on their health impacts.

In Harbison Canyon, there is no escaping the 2003 Cedar fire. It destroyed 287 homes in this tightly knit community as it tore across San Diego County, claiming 280,000 acres, 2,800 dwellings and 15 lives.

There are nearly 46 miles of levees, embankments along rivers that protect 16,170 acres of urban, rural and agricultural land.

A Nov. 9 letter went out to parents of children at Kaelepulu Elementary School in Kailua saying that following guidance from the state Department of Education and Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, the school’s safety committee looked at 'emergency lockdown preparedness.'

The scorched remains of more than 5,100 Sonoma County homes are bound for — loads that have spiked daily traffic from heavy-duty commercial trucks and could burn through the life expectancy for one of the North Coast’s few operating landfills.

Act 172 of 2016 gives municipalities the option to offer a real estate or earned income tax credit to active members of volunteer fire companies and nonprofit emergency service agencies.

More than a quarter of Houston's day laborers were victims of wage theft within the first four weeks of Hurricane Harvey recovery.

Having a plan can help prevent a panic which could make a bad situation even worse.

It's one of five housing assistance options operated by the General Land Office, and one the agency believes is cheaper and more effective than the FEMA trailers.

There was the mother and daughter from South Carolina who spent nine days going on shopping trips, spending between $800 and $1,500 per day on a list of needs for fire victims.

Of the 676 boats that sank in state waters in late August, 77 sank in local ports from Seadrift to Palacios, said Robb Muil, the area manager for oil prevention and response for the Texas General Land Office.

All of the equipment — which includes wheelchairs, walkers, shower supports, hospital beds, nebulizers, CPAP machines and hearing aids — was donated by the Atlanta-based relief organization Friends of Disabled Adults and Children.

More than two dozen investigators have spent weeks scouring wine country trying to solve the mystery at the heart of the most destructive wildfires in California history: What caused the infernos that killed 43 people and destroyed more than 8,000 buildings?

The program coordinator for Harris County, Texas, Information Technology and Services discusses the strategy involved in preparing for NFL's game of the year.