As Hurricane Sandy started to batter the East Coast of the United States, the National Guard and U.S. military had more than 61,000 personnel mobilized and ready for duty. As of 4:00 a.m. on the morning of Oct. 30, more than 7,400 National Guard members were responding to calls for assistance in 11 states.
FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said Tuesday that dangerous conditions from Hurricane Sandy continued to persist Tuesday morning, and urged those in areas affected by the storm to stay in a safe location.
The high winds, heavy rain, and storm surges are dying down along the East Coast today. We have yet to account for the total damage done by Hurricane Sandy, and many areas of New York City are still flooded.
Another Presidential Debate season has come and gone and still no statements on the topic of Homeland Security or emergency management.
Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the “disposition matrix.”
The Homeland Security Department’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications is expanding to five divisions from three and creating a performance-management office.
The “Earthquake Prophet of Doom” James Roddey has put together four steps that people can use to get started on their preparedness journey.
With advancements in technology making drones smaller, lighter, and less expensive, a growing number of public safety officials see the opportunity to leverage drones for their work.
Everyone seems surprised when some calamitous event occurs. Ted G. Lewis points out in his book Bak’s Sand Pile: Strategies for a Catastrophic World that these Black Swan events are really predictable and getting worse as we live in a more connected and interdependent world.
As AWARE previously reported, the Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Julius Genachowski, appointed David Turetsky as the Commission’s new Chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau in May 2012.
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