Emergency Planning

Exelon Generation has rescheduled the Nov. 1 Three Mile Island emergency warning siren tests to Thursday, Nov. 15. The tests are being rescheduled due to the severe weather that has occurred this week. The Nov. 15 siren tests will include up to six...

Mon 9/3/2012 7:06 PM The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), at the request of the state of Louisiana, has activated its Transitional Sheltering Assistance program, which allows eligible evacuees from Hurricane Isaac whose neighborhoods are not...

While the nation watches as tropical storm Isaac pounds the Gulf Coast, various agencies are pitching in and providing resources to help the communities. But officials in Alaska know that when natural disaster strikes in the Last Frontier, it will be more...

Nov 8 Some 18,000 Connecticut Light and Power customers were still without power midday Tuesday, most in the Simsbury area. About one-third of Simsbury was without electricity, as was a quarter of Avon and Farmington, and many in Granby, Canton,...

Post-Tropical Cyclone Debby headed into the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday after leaving four people dead and one missing, and deluging Florida with buckets of rain that triggered flooding statewide. The storm lost its tropical characteristics late...

21644 State Road 7, West Boca Raton 561-488-8000 westbocamedctr.com West Boca’s Emergency Department is open 24 hours a day to serve all of the emergency medical needs of its patients. To accommodate the specific and different needs of adults...

You only have a couple more weeks to apply for the Emergency Homeowner Loan Program offered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  The deadline is July 22. Jan Jones with the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Alaska says the...

When oil companies expand into desert areas of Africa, FrontierMedex Group helps them navigate the territory and provides medical care and security. The company also has helped rescue ships from pirates in the waters off Somalia and provides medical...

Local homeland security officials in Baltimore and across the country are fighting a proposal to change how $2 billion in federal emergency management money is distributed — a change they say would jeopardize regional efforts to respond to terrorist...

The Glendale Fire Department’s CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) training program is an essential tool for our community. It should never be cut from the department's budget (“Fire Dept. plan would save city $2.5M,” May 26). CERT...

A two-day enforcement sting this week at the Doran Street, Chevy Chase and Brazil/Broadway rail crossings in Glendale — which included one motorist literally driving through a set of arm guards — should serve as yet another wake-up call to...

When the mourners arrived for their vigil Monday, a Bethlehem police crime scene van was still parked outside Trisha Sadler's house and yellow police tape was stretched around the yard. The thudding of a nail gun came from inside as some city workers...