As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to answer nearly half of the calls for aid and assistance it recently received during Hurricanes Helene and Milton, a report released this week shows.

On a FEMA color-coded hazard map, Alameda, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties are shaded dark red, indicating an area with ...

But during a call last week, FEMA’s new acting chief, David Richardson, told the agency that additional steep staffing cuts are still expected in the months ahead.

Amid growing concerns within the Federal Emergency Management Agency that internal turmoil has left it unprepared for the fast-approaching hurricane season, the agency is taking significant steps ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will conduct a nationwide emergency test alert this week. FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission ...

On "This Week," Criswell detailed some of how the federal government is assisting the recovery. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell answers questions during the daily press briefing at the White ...

It wasn’t always like this. During the second week of January a decade ago, for example, FEMA’s hazard maps were simple by comparison: High winds in the upper plains, heavy rain around the ...

This week, FEMA notified recipients that it was terminating grants associated with the program, arguing that the payments “no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities ...

FEMA Spokesman John Mills says they’ve helped some 6,000 people already. ... The time to get help from those centers for the earliest disasters is winding down this week.