Florida International University kicked off its annual Disaster Field Operations Exercise today at the Biscayne Bay Campus, bringing together graduate students, emergency responders and community ...

Massachusetts students took part Thursday in "Disaster Day," an intense training exercise that also brings police and firefighters to campus. The emotional exercise is part of the curriculum for ...

Lafayette Parish officials are offering free disaster response training to help volunteers safely operate shelters during hurricane season.

THE United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has reaffirmed its commitment to continue working closely with Tanzania to strengthen disaster management systems through improved technical capacity and ...

PHNOM PENH (Bernama): Asean disaster management officials began conducting a simulation exercise on Monday to review standard operating procedures (SOPs) and improve the region’s preparedness to face ...

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — EMERGENCY PERSONNEL WILL OPERATE near Cadman Plaza Park on Thursday evening, but it will be part of a CERT training exercise. As part of a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) ...

STUDENTS paramedics from the University of Plymouth amassed at Newton Abbot Racecourse for a large-scale disaster simulation ...

The National Disaster Management Authority conducted its first-ever Integrated National Search and Rescue multi-hazard simulation exercise in Islamabad today to strengthen coordinated disaster ...

Hurricane Marsha ravaged Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus last week. But it wasn’t a real storm. The university’s Academy for International Disaster Preparedness held a ...

A downed airplane resulting in fire, hazardous smoke and numerous injuries and deaths is a scenario no one wants to encounter. But at Georgia Highlands College, this scenario was the basis for a High ...

TAJIKISTAN Committee of Emergency situations and Civil Defence under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan (CoESCD) in cooperation with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and ...