A series of violent storms put Aaron Titus, disaster coordinator for the New Jersey branch of Mormon Helping Hands, through his paces last summer. He coordinated the dispatching of several hundred ...

Dennis McKinley is the professional to call when the floodwaters recede. With more than 20 years in the industry, he serves as a project manager for BMS Catastrophe, a privately held company with 731 ...

Economic, governmental, environmental, and community interests often end up just as tangled as debris in the wake of a storm. Margie Huggins has spent her retirement tending her parents’ farm in ...

Driving around parts of southern El Dorado County, you can’t miss the trucks. Everywhere near the areas ravaged by the 2021 Caldor fire that leveled the community of Grizzly Flats, you see semis ...

A week after a deadly tornado tore through Wynne, leaving nearly a mile-wide trail of destruction, Mayor Jennifer Hobbs said the city has remained focused on cleanup so it can address another critical ...

Governments around the globe and their citizens routinely respond to ecological disasters. Think Exxon Valdez or Love Canal in the U.S.; Chernobyl in the Soviet Union; Bhopal in India; and far too ...

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PRATT CITY, Ala. — Across the twister-ravaged South, students and church groups tended to those who needed it most, clearing away wreckage and handing out food and water. Wednesday’s tornadoes marked ...

POLK COUNTY, North Carolina — The small section of forest before me looked as though it was clear-cut. The ground was flat and treeless, covered in a thin layer of jumbled sticks and leaves. This ...