FEMA News

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.

Rhetoric not matching reality is a severe problem in many areas in Texas. On April 17tth, 2013 a fertilizer plant exploded in the town of West, Texas.

Superstorm Sandy drove Laura Lech first to a hotel in Pennsylvania and then a rental home in Milford, but she kept driving her kids back to Ocean County so they could go to their Boy Scout meetings.

When my father was alive, he left New Orleans only two times in his life. The first was to serve his country in Korea.

George Kasimos has almost finished repairing flood damage to his waterfront home, but his Superstorm Sandy nightmare is far from over.

Sandy devastated many homes and businesses. When this Rockaway Beach, N.Y., home is rebuilt--or replaced--will the owners build to the proper standards? With federal flood remapping underway, this is a critical question for borrower, builder, and banker.

Long Beach Township Mayor Joseph Mancini talks about damage to his town after superstorm Sandy; in the background is a house that was washed off its foundation.

Johnston school officials and the architects contracted to design a potential new high school are looking at options to build a secure safe room that would protect students and staff from inclement weather.

More than $1.1 billion in flood recovery grants awarded to state and local governments remain unused five years after the largest natural disaster in Iowa history, a Des Moines Register analysis of more than 35,000 state and federal records shows.