FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

It is clear that we have a transitioning emergency management workforce with at least three generations of emergency managers now working together. That, plus how we mix the midcareer professionals ...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation (ETC) has announced that open grant opportunities are available to assist emergency response organizations in obtaining ETC's Advanced Disaster Management Simulator ...

Sherrill Smith (center), dean of the UW Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, demonstrates for students the proper and improper methods of decontaminating a patient who has been exposed to radiation.

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

EMMITSBURG, Md. — What happened in Maryland won’t necessarily stay in Maryland. A Racine County delegation of more than 70 people attended a four-day disaster training last week at the Federal ...

PESHAWAR, Sept 7: University of Peshawar Vice-chancellor Dr Azmat Hayat Khan has said that seeing the growing need for trained and skilled manpower at times of calamities, disaster preparedness and ...

Africa experiences a variety of natural disasters with floods and droughts documented as the most prevalent and impactful. Other significant hazards include landslides, storms, earthquakes, volcanic ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - One local emergency management team is reaching out to the community to make sure they know what to do in an emergency. Woodbury County Emergency Management held ‘Disaster Survival ...