I spent the past week at FEMA’s Emergency Management Training Institute with 71 county officials and emergency professionals. We attended a four-day course tailored to Humboldt County on responding to ...

Ken Blanchard who is with FEMA and heads up their Higher Education Project at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI), has put together a list of the Top Ten Competencies for Professional Emergency ...

FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute trains about 30,000 people in person at its Emmitsburg, Md., campus each year, and another 1.9 million yearly via online classes. Recently, it added video ...

WAUPUN, Wis. (WBAY) - Train derailments, chemical spills, tornadoes, and flooding - those are just some emergencies that would prompt a big response from multiple agencies. Major events were the focus ...

The Disaster Center Highlights resources related to weather, natural disasters, fires, and newspapers/radio/TV links. Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association (DERA) Highlights ...

Here is a fun trivia question to throw out at dinner parties. What was the name of America’s oldest learning institution when it was founded in 1636? The Answer? New College. It was founded by the ...

Many articles are written about all of the disciplines in the public safety sector, and both fire operations and EMS have been the focus of many available journals. Yet, emergency management has been ...