When Craig Fugate was the FEMA administrator, he was an advocate for doing catastrophic disaster exercises. His point was that it does us little to do just exercises that we estimate we can handle.

It is now an infamous hurricane. Category 3 upon landfall, it ripped through the Gulf Coast region, fulfilling worst fears by hitting low-lying New Orleans. The storm "brought sustained winds of 120 ...

Southwest Franklin County is in good hands as we continue our disaster preparedness program. Multiple agencies came together to address a simulated severe weather event May 5, requiring the ...

Running a training exercise can be a costly, time-consuming undertaking. Often, a simplistic but common measure of success in this regard is staying under or on budget. But meeting budgetary ...

Just months after a botched exercise on base led to the false report of an active shooter, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will conduct its first quarterly training exercises next week. The base will ...

Contingents of U.S. military troops will take part in separate training exercises alongside the Mexican military in Juárez and Chihuahua state this summer as part of strengthening cooperation between ...

Two things were covered this morning as I listened to my flash briefing on my Kindle. First there was the news that President Trump had agreed that the "war games" (in the military terminology, ...

Knowing when and how to use today's measurement technology in your exercise operations William Comtois is managing director of Varicom Inc., and a regular contributor to SecurityInfoWatch.com. When ...

The University of Wyoming's Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing recently implemented comprehensive disaster management ...

WASHINGTON -- The plan was to stage the nation's first live exercise that simulates a nuclear bomb being detonated by terrorists in an American city. About 10,000 emergency responders, U.S. troops and ...

State-wide mock drills in Telangana test preparedness for floods, industrial accidents and highlight need for clear emergency ...

2020 OCT 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Fresh data on Disaster Preparedness - Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response are presented in a new ...