Recovery

Connecticut is preparing for as many as 12,000 new residents who have been uprooted from their lives in the Caribbean after Hurricane Maria destroyed homes, damaged schools and wiped out the electrical grid.

Top PG&E executives met as recently as last week to lobby officials at the state Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco over the issue.

But there’s no money to fund any of it yet, and the final plan won’t be sent to Congress for consideration until 2019.

The magnitude of the recovery also will be huge, which underscores the importance of having someone like James Lee Witt at the helm to help Sonoma Country, Calif., navigate the rough seas ahead.

Even if they wear their gear properly, they may get good and sweaty days later as the toxins come out of their skin.

Five years after Sandy destroyed the tight-knit beachfront community, the neighborhood is still rebounding.

It doesn’t take long for emergency management agency drone to prove its worth.

They went to a whopping nine fires in the first 14 days this year, following the fire season as it moved across the country.

In the wee hours of Oct. 9, the fires that devastated large portions of Santa Rosa’s residential and commercial property, particularly the adjacent Journey’s End Mobile Home Park, raced toward the hospital, inundating Kaiser’s medical/surgical and emergency units with smoke.

(TNS) — Shawn Wolford, director of Nicholas County Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, is hopeful that emergency communication in his county will be greatly improved in the near future.

'The firemen can only do so much. They’re doing everything they can to save your home.'

More than 90 percent of Oahu’s population likely would survive the initial blast of a nuclear attack by North Korea.

All too often, businesses and organizations expect that first responders can get to them quickly in a major disaster.

It is the second — but not likely final — allotment of emergency funds after a succession of deadly hurricanes battered Texas, Florida and other Southern states. It is the first allotment for Puerto Rico.

'It was like a war zone. That was the first time I’d seen that kind of human suffering on a wildland fire.'