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For 24 years, Lois and Alan Reynolds lived in a two-story house along Grant County B, not far from the Platte River...Now they live in a higher-elevation area, on a hillside in a Potosi subdivision, and they look forward to a certain amount of normalcy.
Tags: Lois, Grant County Emergency Management, Alan Reynolds, Craig Reber Lacey Reynods, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant, Potosi, Lynne Jantzen, Bolivia, Potosí, Lois Griffin, Disaster Accident
If there was a lesson to be learned from the government's response to the series of hurricanes that battered the Gulf Coast beginning with Katrina in 2005, it was how not to respond to large natural disasters — especially when it came to housing. "There...
Tags: John Henneberger, Texas, Hurricane Rita, FEMA, Hurricanes Katrina, Katrina Cottage, Port Arthur, Gulf Coast, housed department, Tom Hatch, FEMA trailer, Hurricane Katrina, Henneberger, Houston, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disaster Accident, Atlantic hurricane season
Hope’s Wings Director Robyn Moreland addressed the Madison Fiscal Court on Tuesday about the organization’s needs that will help the shelter continue its operation. “During this past year, we’ve shelter 72 women, which makes up 177 women and children,”...
Tags: Robyn Moreland, profit organization, Madison Fiscal Court, Madison County Health Department, Wings Board of Directors, Madison County Road Commissioner, Lexington, Moreland, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Business Finance
The rescheduling was announced by Mayor Pro Tem Dennis Gillette when the meeting opened...The flood plain proposal is expected to be on the Tues., Dec. City Council meeting agenda but could be put off until next year.
Tags: flood plain, FEMA, Thousand Oaks, Environment, Weather, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disaster Accident
Bill spawned from Indiana denial, Kentucky award of federal aid from August storm Daniel.Suddeath@newsandtribune.com Despite being drenched by the same Aug. 4 storm, Floyd and Clark counties didn’t receive federal disaster aid while neighboring Jefferson...
Tags: FEMA, Southern Indiana, Louisville, Clarksville, disaster declaration, Baron Hill, Environment, FEMA trailer, Weather, United States federal legislation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disaster Accident, Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
New Albany officials were aware that sewer and stormwater infrastructure needed upgrading before the Aug. 4 flood, but City Attorney Shane Gibson said that doesn’t mean the city is responsible for the damage the rains afflicted on property owners.
Tags: Shane Gibson, William Greer, Daniel.Suddeath@newsandtribune.com New Albany, tort claims, Dan Coffey, FEMA, Southern Indiana, flooding victims, United Kingdom, London, Insurance, Flood insurance, Negligent infliction of emotional distress, Stormwater, Gibson Guitar Corporation, Types of insurance, Tort law, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disaster Accident
But the decision to put these agencies under one roof isn't universally popular. Sheriff Doug Gillespie and other members of the state's Homeland Security Commission, a body that advises Gov. Jim Gibbons on terrorism-related matters, criticized Gibbons'...
Tags: Las Vegas, Fusion center, Surveillance, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Counter-terrorism, Law enforcement, National security, Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Critical infrastructure, Jim Gibbons (United States politician), Public Safety Canada, Politics, United States Department of Homeland Security, Homeland security
Wachtor's wind models track the aftermath of a plume of hot gas released by a small, one-ton device in a typical urban setting at a three-meter resolution. Current models use wind direction and wind speed to draw a predicted cone-shape area of fall-out.
Tags: Albuquerque, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Perhaps the end of the world is not around the corner, but officials note that Southern California suffers from enough smaller-scale disasters such as earthquakes, mudslides, wildfires and riots to make planning ahead a necessity. "We hope with the release...
Tags: American Civil Defense Association, small change, Ken Kondo, nuclear attack, Iran, Tehrān, Civil defense, Emergency services, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disaster, Survival kit, Emergency management, Disaster preparedness, Survival skills, Disaster Accident, Environment
Homeland Security officials reversed course Friday and announced that federal money may be used to cover millions of dollars in maintenance costs for equipment meant to help Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky respond to a terrorist attack. The...
Tags: federal money, Homeland Security, maintenance cost, Cincinnati, Federal Reserve System, Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina, Federal Emergency Management Agency, United States Department of Homeland Security, Blackwater Worldwide