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The Florida Division of Emergency Management is about to surpass 450 days responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

/ The 2021 hurricane season is projected to be above average for storms and got off to an early start as Tropical Storm Ana has already formed and dissipated. Kevin Guthrie, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said his agency is "ready to be doing something else." Florida emergency-management workers aren’t approaching this year’s hurricane season as anything basic, but they are looking forward to what the new state director calls the ABCs — “Anything But COVID.” As the six-month hurricane season officially begins June 1, the Florida Division of Emergency Mana...

The new laws will protect Florida homeowners and decrease flood insurance risks.

The bills, which include creation of a Resilient Florida Grant Program in the Department of Environmental Protection to aid local communities, came only a few years after Republican lawmakers began to openly acknowledge the impacts of climate change.

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. RMS Announces New Models and RiskLink Version 21.0 May 5, 2021 GMT RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk modeling and solutions company, today announces new models. Speaking at the annual RMS Exceedance conference, Mohsen Rahnama Ph.D., chief risk modeling officer and executive vice president, said: “Risk is increasingly complex and connected. RMS is focused on providing the highest quality and most transparent, robust catastrophe models to the industry in this environment. With the new in...