When Lisa Troost found her family’s monument business in Hillside ravaged by stormwater, the first thing she did was cry. Since then, the last few weeks have been blur of cleaning debris, shifting ...

There are two distinct phases to disasters like hurricanes Harvey and Irma: the immediate response, generally lead by FEMA, which seeks to ensure residents in the path of the storm are safe, dry and ...

There are four phases of traditional emergency management: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. We spend most of our time on preparedness, with a bit of mitigation planning thrown in. But ...

The county FSA committee provides the State FSA Committee with a request and the necessary documentation of the disaster. The state FSA Committee evaluates the request. If they approve, they forward ...

It's already been three weeks sine Hurricane Helene left swaths of Florida's Gulf Coast and regions of other Southeastern states under water and without power, and took hundreds of lives. On Wednesday ...

Disaster recovery is a term often used in Information Technology (IT) circles to describe the necessity for backup technology systems to safeguard an organization’s data. While this type of safeguard ...

With businesses of all sizes being increasingly threatened by sophisticated cyber criminals, disaster recovery (DR) has taken on a growing importance on the list of business priorities over the last ...

Austin Emergency Management recovered $34.7M in disaster costs in 2025, involving coordination with state and federal ...