Could you survive off of your own food, water and other supplies for a few days if you needed to? That’s the definition of “emergency preparedness,” according to the U.S. Department of Homeland ...
The latter category has emergency managers and technologists particularly worried, after witnessing the destruction of an unintentional event. "It scared a lot of us," said Michael Helfrich, senior ...
[Photo: An aerial view of a house in Gilchrist, Texas, that survived the destruction of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. Courtesy of Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA.] Natural disasters are becoming more ...