emergency response

As President Biden visited Uvalde on Sunday, federal officials said they would investigate how law enforcement responded to the massacre that left 19 fourth-grade students and two teachers dead.

The people who need help the most after disasters are least able to get it from the federal government. Internal records show that FEMA knows it has a problem.

This story has been updated with an additional statement at 1:55 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16.An independent consultant has deemed West Lake Park the best…

Weather officials have been able to reduce forecasting errors for a hurricane's track, including its "cone of uncertainty," in the last 20 years. But more…

Broward County commissioners will vote Tuesday on whether to allow a new 911 radio tower to be built in a Hollywood park.The tower under debate is part of…

In a recent study of patients treated by emergency medical responders in Oregon, black patients were 40 percent less likely to get pain medicine than their white peers. Why?

A poorly organized 911 system hampered the police response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.That’s one finding discussed on Tuesday…

It was a sunny South Florida morning but inside the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) for Miami-Dade County, in Doral, all everybody talked about was…

More than 1 million people are without electricity, and areas along the Gulf Coast report severe outages of cellphone service and other communications.

Davie's fire chief, Julie Downey, has been named Florida's best by the Florida Fire Chiefs' Association. She was given the 2018 state fire chief of the…

The commission tasked with investigating the Parkland school shooting discussed on Wednesday how Broward County and the Broward Sheriff's Office…