Emergency Management

The newspaper headline for August 28, 2019, reads: “Category 5 Hurricane Expected to Hit Homestead, South Miami in Three Days.”

Leaders from Florida’s 67 counties will learn about a buzzword this week: resilience. "It’s about understanding your neighbors, that their shortfalls...

FEMA’s Transitional Housing Program for Puerto Rican families displaced after Hurricanes Irma and Maria is slated to end June 30. Lanesha Smith of FEMA...

Just as the company says it’s hardening the power grid against future hurricanes, Florida Power & Light is also making some of its service centers...

Months after Gov. Rick Scott approved new rules for nursing homes and assisted living facilities, much of the industry is not in compliance as hurricane...

With interstates jammed with people fleeing the state during Hurricane Irma, many Floridians are questioning the state’s evacuation plan for this year’s...

Days before Hurricane Irma hit last September, a lifeguard was entrusted with translating a public announcement in sign language to residents of Manatee...

Oral arguments have been scheduled for late August in a Florida Supreme Court case challenging Gov. Rick Scott’s vetoes of pay raises for firefighters...

"Seventy-two hours. Three days." That's how long officials expect residents to be able to survive on their own after a hurricane strikes, which includes...

Despite only receiving 1.28 inches of rain during the first named storm of the season, Pasco County officials say they pulled out all the stops to test...