Purdue University’s Integrated Emergency Management Plan (IEMP) uses a management system widely known as the Incident Command System (ICS). The ICS provides an organizational structure capable of ...

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby ...

In 2019 the linn county emergency management agency conducted a large scale upgrade to their outdoor warning sirens.With an additional expansion of the outdoor ...

Residents who lived in the west side of Altadena did not receive an evacuation order until 3:25 a.m., which was hours after the fires first began to burn through their neighborhoods.

Kevin McGowan, director of L.A. County’s Office of Emergency Management, said in a morning news conference that the problem was caused by a software system glitch. County officials, he said ...