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FEMA's funding is running low, and Congress must act to save communities--and lives--before the next climate-fueled disaster.

Pilot home hardening initiative provides funding for defensible space and ignition resistant retrofits to harden approx. 2,500 homes.

PRINCETON — Mercer County residents owning homes or other structures standing in areas prone to flooding are being encouraged to attend a meeting this October so they can consider a

The Sanibel City Council approved proposed comments about the Community Development Block Grant — Disaster Recovery Action Plan and sending them to Lee County

Edior’s Note: This story was originally published by The Assembly. It is published here with permission.

Guam Homeland Security and Office of Civil Defense says an emergency siren went off “inadvertently” in Hagat Wednesday. It’s a concern as last month, just four of Guam’s 21 sirens were fully functioni

VALDOSTA – Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp formally submitted a Major Disaster Declaration request to President Joe Biden and the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday, Sept. 6.

The violent June 26 storm caused an estimated $2.6 million in damages across Oxford County.

While the purpose of the government’s flooded property buyout programs is to remove flood-prone houses before they’re destroyed, many owners apply right after a disaster impacts them.

Since 1995 fewer than 300 Florida properties have benefited from the federal programs.