Boone County’s first responders met Tuesday to anticipate a disaster in Advance. Advance Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jim Caldwell and his son, Assistant Chief Mike Caldwell, were in the hot seat ...

Nearly 20 agencies gathered on Wednesday as the Cass County Local Emergency Planning Committee held its annual hazardous materials exercise at the Walton Community Fire Department. The exercise, ...

Local officials and emergency management experts say that Louisiana could face a disaster on top of a disaster in the event ...

Lafayette Consolidated Goverbnebt and other government agencies may be paying for more of the cost to recovery from disasters ...

As Florida emergency response officials conduct their annual statewide hurricane preparedness exercise this week, emergency ...

Ironically, the exercise last May was interrupted by a real scenario, when Earth was hit by the strongest solar storm in two decades ...

Recent intense solar flares, originating from sunspot AR4087, have triggered global concerns about potential space weather ...

Scientists claim we’re not prepared for the solar storms threatening Earth, which could cause cataclysmic blackouts, grid breakdowns and even an “internet apocalypse,” according to a frightening ...

Some 13,000 years ago, the sun emitted a huge belch of radiation that bombarded Earth and left its imprint in ancient tree rings. That solar storm was the most powerful one ever recorded. The next ...

Researchers from a bunch of US government agencies recently published the results of the first-ever “Space Weather Tabletop ...

Your crisis management playbook may look fail-proof on paper, but leadership and culture offer intangibles that can make or ...

On May 16, the Delaware County Local Emergency Planning Committee held a tabletop simulation of a tornado moving through the county in order to find best practices to respond to a real emergency.