New programs from Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America eliminate freight charges in most cases for shipments of emergency replacement parts from the parts distribution centers. The new programs ...

Mirta Mendez walks through the debris at the Seabreeze trailer park along the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. In December 2016, Florida's Division of Emergency ...

Artificial intelligence is everywhere, but for emergency management professionals, the real question is how to use it meaningfully. In a field where public trust, speed, and accuracy are critical, AI ...

Imagine the following scenario: you are the Incident Commander at a warehouse fire that is known to have a large quantity of hazardous materials stored. Dispatch notifies you that "Evacuation of the ...

Medicare Part B covers emergency ambulance rides and, in limited cases, non-emergency ambulance services. Medicare considers an emergency to be any situation when your health is in serious danger and ...

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we discussed important questions school safety leaders must ask when assessing their school safety plans. These questions can help schools evaluate the thoroughness ...

States of emergency have been declared for some parts of the U.S. in the path of Monday’s total solar eclipse, as state and local officials look to free up resources as they prepare for an influx of ...

In my last blog I reviewed nine common characteristics of emergency managers found in a survey of the current research literature by researchers Jenna Tyler and Abdul-Akeem Sadiq. These ...