emergency management

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…

Gov. Rick Scott offered resources and assistance Monday to the governors of North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia as powerful Hurricane Florence...

The newspaper headline for August 28, 2019, reads: “Category 5 Hurricane Expected to Hit Homestead, South Miami in Three Days.”It’s a prop, part of a…

People living in Palm Beach County have a new way to reach 911 in an emergency: by text message.Anyone in the county with a cell phone can send a text to…

In the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the federal government signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Carnival Corporation to help house federal…

If you judge Wes Maul by his online résumé, his tenure at the state Division of Emergency Management has seen the full spectrum of natural and human…