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 ...

FEMA Region 1 simulated a two-day, multi-state disaster March 1-2, which required wide-spread federal, state, and private sector disaster response coordination. The purpose of the simulated ice storm ...

The FEMA Emergency Management Institute’s (EMI) Curriculum Management Branch offers the Independent Study Program (ISP). This is a distance learning program which offers training, free of charge, to ...

I am absolutely positive that everyone will not agree with what I’ve written below. Perhaps it will provoke some discussion on the topic where you live and work. I have noted that where I live, some ...

The National Incident Management System (NIMS) established by FEMA in 2004 includes the utilization of a standardized approach to managing critical incidents through the use of the Incident Command ...

St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, May 15, 2024 -- Federal and territorial partners participate in an air operations blended training as part of the U.S. Virgin Islands Readiness Initiative at Cyril E.

OhioHealth ran a simulation Thursday alongside Columbus police and fire that included real-life emergency scenarios. The simulation took place at the Columbus Fire Training Academy and was meant to ...

Jacquelyn Bengfort is a freelance writer based in Washington, DC. A social anthropologist by training, she writes on topics from education to the military, gender to fictional post-apocalyptic ...