County staff said the overhaul is needed now that participation demands and state requirements have changed, and the county wants more control over what responders are learning.

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon Department of Emergency Management is preparing to host IronOR 24, a statewide emergency exercise taking place October 28-31 This four-day exercise is designed to test ...

EFFINGHAM COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - Emergency personnel swarmed to Springfield Friday morning for the largest organized training exercise in Effingham County history. The Effingham County Emergency ...

The Director of Emergency Preparedness coordinates the Critical Incident Management Program and emergency procedures. These are designed to be an all-hazards disaster response and emergency management ...

University Organizational Resilience – Northern Command offers a wide range of emergency preparedness trainings and exercises designed to strengthen readiness at all levels of the institution. Our ...

Developing an emergency operations plan (EOP) is no easy feat but it was a task Michael Reidenbach gladly took on. The EOP for Charleston County School District, which consists of 82 schools, hadn’t ...

You’ve told your boss that you’ve created an Emergency Action Plan compliant with OSHA, your state’s fire code and NFPA standards. Your boss then snaps, “How do you know any of that will work? Prove ...

When disaster strikes, it takes the right people, with the right training, to mount a swift response. With dozens of hazard types in South Carolina, including emerging risks exacerbated by climate ...

In an effort to stay poised and ready to confront potential threats, the staff at the Keller Army Community Hospital exercised a mass casualty/decontamination scenario testing their emergency ...

What would we do if we discovered a large asteroid on course to impact Earth? While highly unlikely, that was the high-consequence scenario discussed by attendees at an Oct. 25 NASA-FEMA tabletop ...

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the Northeast struggles to recover from the massive damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, state leaders across the country are witnessing the importance of having an ...