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Disaster Preparedness & Recovery

MaryAnn Tierney, deputy managing director of the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management, has overseen a transformation of the city’s emergency preparedness program.

Los Angeles Port Security
By: Russell Nichols
March 08, 2010

With new a screening vessel, a helicopter with a radiation-detecting module and a WMD-sniffing dog, port authorities bolster line of defense against terrorists.

DHS logo
By: Elaine Pittman
March 04, 2010

The National Governors Association’s State Homeland Security Advisors Survey highlights priorities and issues.

Haiti earthquake
By: Eric Holdeman
March 01, 2010

Earthquake risks in the United States include some of the same that took a deadly toll in Haiti and Chile.

DC Snow Storm
By: Corey McKenna
February 25, 2010

Regional Integrated Transportation Information System and Capital Wireless Information Network connected first responders after massive snowstorm.

tsunami
By: Karen Wilkinson
February 24, 2010

Three rural, coastal California counties team up for what could be the largest “live code” evacuation drill in U.S. history.

interoperability
By: Jim McKay
February 23, 2010

Communicating between six reservations is possible only by phone without access to the statewide system.

Critical infrastructure protection
By: Elaine Pittman
February 22, 2010

Critical infrastructure keeps communities and regions running — five counties in the Pacific Northwest collaborated to protect and prioritize their key resources.

By: Corey McKenna
February 18, 2010

Chemical Companion puts information on protective measures, chemical properties, isolation distances and treatment regimens in the hands of first responders.

Matt Bettenhausen
By: Jim McKay
February 17, 2010

Bettenhausen discusses California's mutual-aid system and preparing for devastating earthquakes, fires and floods, as well as terror events.


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