Recovery

An annual audit completed in December 2016 by the agency’s inspector general detailed a lengthy list of deficiencies needed to prepare and respond to a hurricane.

Some residents found themselves racing out of their homes as the flames licked the edges of their neighborhood.

In one of the most surreal scenes, broadcast on TV, a team of Kaiser Permanente nurses and doctors, faces covered by respirators, gently raced critical patients in hospital beds down the street.

Red flag warnings in effect throughout much of Northern California have expired as of Tuesday morning. Winds of up to 50 miles per hour Sunday night had helped spread flames.

Fourteen fires are raging throughout California as Gov. Jerry Brown declares a state of emergency.

'It's important that we do the research into how much rainfall could we get, how the watersheds are going to respond to that rainfall event, how deep, who will it impact.'

The sound of explosions, mostly bursting propane tanks, punctuated the rush as authorities raced to evacuate hospitals, senior centers and apartment complexes.

Sunday’s parade, which featured about 35 fire trucks, representing each fire department in McLean County, Ill., was the 25th annual event.

Hundreds of people, including nurses, teachers, police officers, social workers and the general public, have been trained in a 15-county region.

The remains of Hurricane Nate traveled inland after the storm made its second landfall early Sunday morning in Mississippi.

Nate currently has maximum sustained winds of 60 mph and is moving north-northwest at 21 mph. It is expected to become a hurricane by the time it reaches the Gulf.

There have been over 8.5 million acres "torched," or nearly four times the land mass of Puerto Rico.

Nate's interaction with land could cause a temporary cessation in the the strengthening process, but once the storm emerges over the Gulf of Mexico, Nate is expected to resume intensification and the storm is expected to become a hurricane.

The concern is what kind of shape the storm's core is in after that landfall as it enters the much warmer waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers will provide RVs, what FEMA calls traveling trailers, in batches, by Saturday.