The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) of Coffee County is offering classes to teach people about disaster preparedness ...

CERT trains residents in disaster preparedness, fire safety, light search and rescue, disaster medical operations and team ...

The Grayson County Office of Emergency Management will hold emergency response team classes starting in January, offering ...

Those interested in joining can apply for training offered in two free sessions on April 26 and May 3. Both must be completed to volunteer, but attendance does not obligate anyone to join the team.

As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials ...

Jeremy Korn gives Randy Martin and Roberta Curtin pointers on how to use a radio for emergency communication during a Community Emergency Response Team training class. Beth Lipoff Special to The Star ...

As the Trump administration continues to cut workforces across government, the former head of federal disaster response is sounding the alarm that agencies will be left ill-equipped to handle an ...

Since taking office, President Trump has called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, suggesting it could be dismantled as soon as December. Lately, his team has backed away ...

Oregon has sent a swift water rescue team to help with flooding in Washington, marking the first such deployment under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.