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In explaining the county's new CERT program that stands for Community Emergency Response Team Joseph Chambers of the Dade County Sheriff's Department likes to tell a story featured on one of the regional CERT websites.

An Atlantic City woman who stole more than $15,000 in benefit money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after a 2010 nor'easter was sentenced Monday to more than two years in prison.

Friends of Disabled Adults and Children , a non-profit organization providing medical equipment and supplies to the disabled community, has announced that Georgia Emergency Management Agency/Homeland Security has contracted with it to serve as the statewide distributor of home medical equipment and will assist with technology in the event of a ... (more)

Hancher Auditorium, which provided the stage for thousands of performers in its 40-year history, will soon be the star of its own show.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been quietly undergoing dramatic changes in operations, and details of its new structure will be a feature at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference October 21- 23 in Silicon Valley.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been working with county and municipal governments over the last several years to incorporate the best available data into new flood maps.

"We'll be there even after the cameras leave and after the attention turns elsewhere," Obama said during the memorial.

BURLINGTON The Burlington community turned another page in its flood recovery when the last temporary housing unit rolled out of DeSour Valley Heights Monday.

Tuesday may end up being an ordinary day for most, but for any West citizen who hasn't registered with FEMA for individual disaster assistance, its crunch time.

The Maury County Fire Department is getting a big financial boost courtesy of one of the largest federal grants ever awarded to a Tennessee fire department.

US mayors pledged Monday to make their communities more resilient to increasingly severe floods, droughts, extreme storms and wildfires, which they said was more efficient and cost-effective than disaster clean-up afterwards.

Elevation Saved Mantoloking Home: Elevating his home when it was built 30 years ago, saved Ed Wright's Mantoloking home when the ocean met the bay the the foot of the Mantoloking Bridge during Superstorm Sandy.

A Sea Bright man temporarily displaced by superstorm Sandy was indicted Monday on charges of defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency of more than $12,000 in grant money for hotel stays he didn't need, authorities said.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded nearly $1.5 million to the state of Texas for improvements to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Smithville, Texas.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has provided $1.5 million to help Maine with costs due to the February 8-9 blizzard.

Like bites from a sandwich, U-shaped holes are being chewed into Cocoa Beach Country Club's earthen embankments by wind-whipped waves in the Banana River.

This screenshot shows the revised federal flood maps for the Shore Acres section of Brick Township.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has shrunk the area along the New Jersey shore that it considers vulnerable to high wave action during hurricanes and other storms.

The first FEMA Corps members graduated from the program Thursday in Vinton, celebrating the completion of a challenging mission: Helping to create a new program while simultaneously helping others via the program that was a work in progress.

A hardball disaster relief team that will muck water out of basements, sift through rubble for a victim's belongings and thrust trees from toppled houses.