Recovery

While the actual damage amounts were relatively small, the dramatic difference in losses between the two types of buildings is likely to fuel the debate on whether the city should require old residential high-rises to install automatic sprinkler systems.

FEMA defines a 'repetitive-loss property' as having two or more claims of more than $1,000 over 10 years.

The tornado, with wind speeds estimated at up to 140 mph, killed one person, injured 25 and caused at least $10 million in property damage, according to authorities.

State dam managers have insisted for months that there’s no problem, and that persistent green wet spots are nothing more than natural vegetation growth caused by rainfall.

Foret was one of about 500 firefighters from all over the state who gathered to kick off the 112th Annual Louisiana State Firemen's Association Conference.

The tourism industry is not at all happy with the arrival of the campaign, which it fears could spook tourists.

The emergency management challenges of the coming total solar eclipse.

As of July 1, there have been 56 EMS-dispatched water rescues, and 412 public assists where lifeguards retrieve people in the water without need for EMS or intercept people in the water before they get into trouble.

More than 3,000 firefighters battling a Fire just west of Yosemite National Park in California have only reached 10 percent containment.

The goal of the event is to give kids a chance to interact with emergency response personnel, their vehicles and their equipment in a fun, relaxed way in the hope that, in an emergency situation, the kids feel more comfortable.

Lake County, Ill, lakes, river so swollen that it won't take much more rain to push them back up and out.

Although the firefighters from Santa Cruz County are being paid for fighting those active wildfires on state lands, there continues to be an unresolved dispute over fires on U.S. Forest Service lands.

Hosted by Aims' Public Safety Institute in Windsor, this three-day workshop offers high school girls the chance to learn and train public safety and firefighting skills.

Paramedics were presented with four scenarios and timed as they completed the course, crawling into tight, dark spaces to access mannequins in peril.

'We try to be very efficient in the information we're passing. It isn't a lot of chit-chat, it's just information as needed to be conveyed to the right people.'