FEMA News

More than 56,000 tons of debris has been removed from neighborhoods in Moore as the city reaches the one-month mark since a deadly tornado carved through the Oklahoma City suburb on May 20. The Federal Emergency Management Agency paid for 85 percent of the cost of debris removal through Wednesday, when the share was reduced to 80 percent.

Residents planning to request federal aid for covering the costs of recovering from this past spring's floods need to do so soon.

The Royalton Township Fire Department is going to receive nearly $26,000 from the federal government to improve operations.

Attention Hoboken residents and prospective buyers. FEMA has recently updated their preliminary flood maps for four counties in the New Jersey area and this includes Hudson County of which Hoboken is a part of.

U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford called into the FITS home office this week to hello - and to make a point regarding his recent vote on a controversial flood insurance program .

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On May 20, 2013, the President issued a major disaster declaration for the State of Oklahoma because of the devastation caused by the tornadoes.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Region IV office in Atlanta became the first FEMA office to earn the National Weather Service's StormReady designation.

In explaining the county's new CERT program that stands for Community Emergency Response Team Joseph Chambers of the Dade County Sheriff's Department likes to tell a story featured on one of the regional CERT websites.

An Atlantic City woman who stole more than $15,000 in benefit money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after a 2010 nor'easter was sentenced Monday to more than two years in prison.

Friends of Disabled Adults and Children , a non-profit organization providing medical equipment and supplies to the disabled community, has announced that Georgia Emergency Management Agency/Homeland Security has contracted with it to serve as the statewide distributor of home medical equipment and will assist with technology in the event of a ... (more)

Hancher Auditorium, which provided the stage for thousands of performers in its 40-year history, will soon be the star of its own show.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been quietly undergoing dramatic changes in operations, and details of its new structure will be a feature at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference October 21- 23 in Silicon Valley.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been working with county and municipal governments over the last several years to incorporate the best available data into new flood maps.

"We'll be there even after the cameras leave and after the attention turns elsewhere," Obama said during the memorial.

BURLINGTON The Burlington community turned another page in its flood recovery when the last temporary housing unit rolled out of DeSour Valley Heights Monday.

Tuesday may end up being an ordinary day for most, but for any West citizen who hasn't registered with FEMA for individual disaster assistance, its crunch time.

The Maury County Fire Department is getting a big financial boost courtesy of one of the largest federal grants ever awarded to a Tennessee fire department.

US mayors pledged Monday to make their communities more resilient to increasingly severe floods, droughts, extreme storms and wildfires, which they said was more efficient and cost-effective than disaster clean-up afterwards.

Elevation Saved Mantoloking Home: Elevating his home when it was built 30 years ago, saved Ed Wright's Mantoloking home when the ocean met the bay the the foot of the Mantoloking Bridge during Superstorm Sandy.