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7 min ago | Dade County Sentinel

"Knowledge Is Power": CERT Training Available Through FEMA, Sheriff's Dept.

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Natural Disasters, Earthquake

3 hrs ago | WKXW-FM Trenton

Atlantic City Woman Sentenced in FEMA Disaster Scam

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.

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Related Topix: US News

5 hrs ago | Patch.com

FODAC Gets Contract with Georgia Emergency Management Agency

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)

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Related Topix: Non-Profit, US News

9 hrs ago | The Gazette

Diane Heldt wrote a new blog post: Documentary will chronicle...

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

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Related Topix: University of Iowa, Iowa, US News

13 hrs ago | Examiner.com

FEMA Changing Structure Dramatically

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Sandy, Missouri

15 hrs ago | WebWire

New FEMA Flood Maps for Pennington County South Dakota

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.

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Related Topix: Pennington County, SD, US News, Real Estate, Mortgage, Personal Finance

16 hrs ago | The Washington Post

Why did FEMA deny funding after Texas fertilizer plant explosion?

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

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Related Topix: Texas Government, Texas, US News, Rick Perry, US Governors, Chris Christie, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Sandy

17 hrs ago | Minot Daily News

FEMA closes Burlington group site

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

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Related Topix: Burlington, ND, US News, Minot, ND

Mon Jun 17, 2013

KWTX

Citizens Apply for Last Minute Individual Aid as FEMA Closes Its Doors to West Residents

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Train Disaster, Non-Profit

WTVF Nashville

Maury County Fire Department Awarded Major Grant

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.

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Related Topix: Maury County, TN, Fire, US News

The Age

US cities seek greater climate resilience

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.

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Related Topix: Des Moines, IA, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, US News, Weather

Asbury Park Press

New FEMA maps shrink flood zones; could save homeowners thousands of dollars

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Natural Disasters, Flood, Mantoloking, NJ, Toms River, NJ, V I Technologies, Biotech, Medicine, Medical Equipment, Healthcare Industry, Monmouth County, NJ

Asbury Park Press

Sea Bright man indicted for defrauding FEMA of $12K for unneeded hotel stays

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Sea Bright, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FEMA Awards Nearly $1.5 Million for Improvements to M.D. Anderson...

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.

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Related Topix: US News, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Federal Emergency Management Agency

$1.5 Million in FEMA Aid Helps Maine with Blizzard Costs

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

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Related Topix: US News

Florida Today

Cocoa Beach course faces a water hazard of its own

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.

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Related Topix: Cocoa Beach, FL, Tornado, Hurricane, Natural Disasters, US News, Weather, Hurricane Isaac

NJ.com

FEMA releases updated flood maps for 4 New Jersey counties

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

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Related Topix: US News, Brick, NJ, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Sandy

WNYC-AM New York

Map | FEMA Scales Back Flood Zones After Controversy

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Natural Disasters, Flood

Vinton Today

FEMA Corps members graduate; receive praise for shaping program for future

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Sandy

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Veterans find 'reintegration' with volunteer disaster relief program

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.

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Related Topix: US News, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Sandy, Life, Veteran Affairs