Organize for Disaster: Prepare Your Family and Your Home for Any Natural Or Unnatural Disaster
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Wikileaks is releasing over half a million intercepted messages from a 24-hour period surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks, sent over alphanumeric text pagers that "range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA, and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults at investment banks inside the World Trade Center." Here's one batch . The message logs are raw in the extreme: they're...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Taxpayers spent about $60 million to equip Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky to respond to a terrorist attack. But local officials say new FEMA rules could render much of that expensive equipment useless.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it will consider Portland's arguments that the harbor shouldn't be reclassified in a way that would limit development options on city's piers.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Timothy W. Manning, deputy administrator for national preparedness at FEMA, talks with Victoria Nunez, 10.The Providence Journal / Bob ThayerNORTH PROVIDENCE — Some high-ranking officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency squeezed into tiny chairs at Marieville Elementary School here Thursday to watch fourth graders plan how they will save their families from the next natural disaster.Each...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
ABINGTON - Nearly every day for 36 years Richard A. Serino put on a uniform and headed downtown from Dorchester, and later from Abington, to work for Boston Emergency Medical Services. For the last 14 years, a name tag identifying him as “Chief’’ was part of that uniform.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Richard Serino, the longtime chief of Boston Emergency Medical Services, was officially sworn in yesterday as deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the agency’s number two post.
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Humble Hub "city boy" Richard Serino today steps into the starring role of deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Administration - the nation's...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Former Boston Emergency Medical Services chief Richard Serino is being sworn in as deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA Administrator Craig...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Former Boston Emergency Medical Services chief Richard Serino is being sworn in as deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Newton mayoral candidate Setti Warren has frequently touted his experience as New England director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saying it makes him the only candidate who has managed government civil servants.
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Fox News' Bill Hemmer criticized the Department of Homeland Security for awarding a since-rescinded fire prevention grant to ACORN, ignoring that the Bush administration awarded similar grants to ACORN in 2007. Moreover, other Fox personalities and The Washington Times claimed that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) "made this public," even though the grant was reported on long before Vitter mentioned...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
A failure to test and modernize the U.S. emergency alert system leaves doubt whether the president would be able to communicate with the American people during a terrorist attack or natural disaster, congressional investigators said Thursday. A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) described the existing Emergency Alert System (EAS) as "antiquated" and "unreliable"...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- A McChord Air Force Base crew is flying a nine-person Federal Emergency Management Agency team and its telecommunications equipment to American Samoa as part of the tsunami relief effort.
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Numerous failures have left the nation dependent on an "antiquated, unreliable, national alert system" intended to signal a terrorist attack or national disaster, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released Thursday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has made "limited progress" in creating a new system to replace the outdated Emergency Alert...
Dothan Eagle (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Houston County officials remain in a dispute with Federal Emergency Management Agency officials over reimbursement of expenses from the March 28 flood.
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