emergency management

The ongoing pandemic has again complicated emergency planning for hurricane season in South Florida, with emergency managers planning to separate shelter evacuees and provide more space even as they worry people will ignore orders over COVID-19 fears.

As the six-month hurricane season officially begins June 1, the Florida Division of Emergency Management will have surpassed 450 days responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jared Moskowitz heads Florida’s Division of Emergency Management and has overseen much of the state's response to the outbreak. He told the USA TODAY NETWORK that an official announcement of his departure is expected Tuesday by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

He was rumored to be under consideration. The post will go to a New York official.

Jared Moskowitz told members of the House Pandemics & Public Emergencies Committee that the federal government has been slow in meeting Florida's demand for the vaccine.

Isaias is forecast to bring heavy rain and strong winds to South Florida this weekend.Palm Beach County, which could feel hurricane-force winds, has…

A shipment of one million N95 masks to Miami-Dade County firefighters was confiscated by the federal government last week, say top Miami-Dade…

It’s been more than a month since parts of South Florida began to shut down in the effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.Talks are under way about when…

Two years ago, it looked as if Hurricane Irma would make a direct hit to South Florida. Hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to leave their homes.…

After three hurricanes, a big snow storm and an ice storm, residents and staff of a retirement community in Charleston are starting to view evacuations as the reality of growing old on the coast.

Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis has tapped state Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Broward County Democrat who serves as general counsel for a major disaster-recovery…

There's a new person in charge of emergency management in Broward County.Tracy Jackson started as the director of regional public safety and emergency…