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MADISON, Wis. – When a disaster strikes, first responders and emergency management personnel rely on extensive planning and training to meet the critical needs of an incident. Along with its many partners, Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) works to ensure those resources are available, through extensive planning efforts and by offering thousands of hours of training and exercises around the state each year.

Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now However, Texas lawmakers and regulators have so far made no significant revisions in weatherization rules since the mid-February winter blast cut power for about 4 millions customers for as long as four days, during which scarcity conditions prompted ERCOT and regulators to set real-time systemwide prices at the $9,000/MWh estimated value of lost load. Therefore, generators are required to make weatherization plans, and ERCOT can only report on whether generators have implemented...

The Home Depot Announces New and Enhanced Disaster Preparedness Resources News provided by Share this article  With the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recognizing May 9–15 as National Hurricane Preparedness Week and the month of May as National Wildfire Preparedness Month, The Home Depot ®, the world's largest home improvement retailer, is offering new and enhanced resources for natural disaster preparedness and is encouraging customers to prepare early for all natural disasters, including hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and wildfires. A variety of digital resources and tool...