Severe Weather Awareness Week: How to stay ready and stay safe
Florida Severe Weather Awareness Week is Feb. 3-7, 2025, to increase awareness of and preparedness for severe weather hazards ...
Wildfires break out in North Carolina town ravaged by Hurricane Helene
The fire is happening while Western North Carolina is under an increased fire danger warning due to gusty winds, making it ...
Too little, too late: Residents say they were in the dark as fire spread with no evacuation order
When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby ...
Flawed emergency alert systems lagged when residents needed them most during Los Angeles wildfires
When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby ...
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Wildfires break out in North Carolina town ravaged by Hurricane Helene
OLD FORT, N.C. (WLOS) — Just a few months after the area was ravaged by Hurricane Helene, an "out of control" wildfire in the western North Carolina town of Old Fort prompted evacuation orders ...
It Was the Big One. Just Not the One L.A. Was Expecting.
Officials across the Los Angeles area had plenty of warning that a deadly confluence of wind and drought was coming. A bad fire was likely. Did they do enough to get ready?
Lessons in disaster: Holes in emergency plan underscored Helene response challenges in NC
Hurricane Helene triggered more than 2,000 landslides, hazardous spills, and infrastructure failures in North Carolina.
Lessons from Lahaina for Los Angeles
As our friends, now survivors, started to think about next steps, we passed along what Lahaina survivors have taught us about ...
Priceless art was destroyed by L.A. wildfires. Experts want to protect other cities from the same fate
Across the globe, cultural institutions are implementing new measures to protect their artifacts from the ravages of climate ...
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New Plans Seek to Streamline Building Evacuations
UC Davis Department Safety Coordinators, or DSCs, have worked together with Emergency Management to update the process and ...