FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

A week-long training programme for National Service Scheme (NSS) volunteers in disaster management and mitigation activities began here on Monday.

To build capacity in green disaster risk management and response, WWF-Pacific staff and partners, recently underwent a three day ‘Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit’(GRRT) training in Suva. To ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA -- Disaster Management Systems, Inc., the nation's leading supplier of disaster preparedness solutions, announced the availability of a new tabletop training kit designed to ...

The simulated biological attacks, active shooter incidents and other emergency scenarios are part of the city's safety ...

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

Africa experiences a variety of natural disasters with floods and droughts documented as the most prevalent and impactful. Other significant hazards include landslides, storms, earthquakes, volcanic ...

The National Office of Disaster Services (NODS) organized a Youth in Disaster Management training session targeting students in secondary schools, yesterday, as part of its week of activities for the ...

Under the patronage of Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, ...

The Rapid Action Force (RAF), a riot-control wing of the CRPF, is now involved in disaster relief and rescue operations. Comprising 340 troops, these specialized teams, trained alongside the NDRF, are ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A district-level training programme for NSS volunteers commenced at the Maria Rani Centre, Sreekaryam, on ...