emergency preparedness

Zach Iscol served in Iraq as a Marine and is now commissioner of New York City’s Department of Emergency Management. “We are always activated. We’re always responding to stuff,” he says. How to prepare for the worst.

Residents urged to make an emergency plan, register for notifications via phone

Experts from a number of areas are meeting today and tomorrow at the Albany Capital Center to consider how to make schools safe places to learn and how to…

A newly released study ranks New York above the national average in health emergency preparedness. The study tracked response readiness for tornadoes to…

Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, as a high-end Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph. According to the National…

Public Service Professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity and Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy…

Connecticut public health and law enforcement departments this week are testing how the state responds to situations such as an infectious disease…

Sheri Fink, award winning journalist and nonfiction author, is the keynote speaker for the Disasters, Ethics and Social Justice Conference taking place at…

Massachusetts is taking steps to make sure its citizens are prepared for emergency situations.The “Together We’re Ready” campaign is promoting Emergency…