57 min ago | 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.
3 hrs ago | 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.
5 hrs ago | 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.
6 hrs ago | 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.
8 hrs ago | 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.
10 hrs ago | 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.
10 hrs ago | 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.
14 hrs ago | 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.
18 hrs ago | 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.
20 hrs ago | 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.
22 hrs ago | 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.
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.
Texas Governor Rick Perry Now Begging For Government Handouts
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.
Hometown Heroes: 'We're like FEMA without the red tape'
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.
We all need to be prepared for disasters
When my father was alive, he left New Orleans only two times in his life. The first was to serve his country in Korea.
Post-Sandy threat: Big insurance cost surge
George Kasimos has almost finished repairing flood damage to his waterfront home, but his Superstorm Sandy nightmare is far from over.
Flood insurance surprises could hurt Sandy victims
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.
FEMA shrinks top flood zones 50% in Ocean County
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.
Tornado renews interest in school safe room
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.
$1.1 billion of Iowa's '08 flood recovery money remains unspent
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.