When Lisa Troost found her family’s monument business in Hillside ravaged by stormwater, the first thing she did was cry. Since then, the last few weeks have been blur of cleaning debris, shifting ...

There are two distinct phases to disasters like hurricanes Harvey and Irma: the immediate response, generally lead by FEMA, which seeks to ensure residents in the path of the storm are safe, dry and ...

The county FSA committee provides the State FSA Committee with a request and the necessary documentation of the disaster. The state FSA Committee evaluates the request. If they approve, they forward ...

There are four phases of traditional emergency management: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. We spend most of our time on preparedness, with a bit of mitigation planning thrown in. But ...

With businesses of all sizes being increasingly threatened by sophisticated cyber criminals, disaster recovery (DR) has taken on a growing importance on the list of business priorities over the last ...

Disaster recovery is a term often used in Information Technology (IT) circles to describe the necessity for backup technology systems to safeguard an organization’s data. While this type of safeguard ...

(WSIL) -- Following a stretch of severe weather events in Illinois – such as flooding and tornadoes –U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) Thursday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's already been three weeks sine Hurricane Helene left swaths of Florida's Gulf Coast and regions of other Southeastern states ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) -Teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are scattered throughout Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Bulloch and Screven counties assessing damage from Debby’s floodwaters.

U.S. Small Business Administration representatives are in Vermont helping businesses and individuals apply for disaster assistance loans. The deadline to file for assistance from the July storm in ...