All the headlines from our FEMA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 24 2006 // Says feds, state governments should work together10 W. Va. Insurance Commission cracks down 2,000 employers without workers’ comp targeted11 FAIA CAT team volunteers honoredProvided assistance to Miss. agents after...
Jul 24 2006 // Former FEMA director promotes state, federal disaster mediationFederal and state governments need to work with insurance companies to sponsor disaster mediation programs before something happens, before people who have...
Jul 24 2006 // Federal and state governments need to work with insurance companies to sponsor disaster mediation programs before something happens — before people who have worked all their lives for everything they have, all of a...
Jul 24 2006 // Federal and state governments need to work with insurance companies to sponsor disaster mediation programs before something happens, before people who have worked all their lives for everything they have, then all of a...
Jul 24 2006 // FEMA recently issued new flood maps that require people in many parts of New Orleans to elevate their houses, according to Jeff Albright, chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of Louisiana....
Jul 3 2006 // Report not kind to FEMA regarding hurricane assistanceWatchdog agency finds around $1 billion was handed out improperly A report released June 14 by the U.S. Government Ac-countability Office (GAO) assessing the Federal...
Jul 3 2006 // GAO estimates around $1 billion ‘improperly’ handed out10 Let the towing begin Thousands of abandoned cars to be removed in New Orleans10 IIAT presents awards, installs new officersAssociation holds 109th...
Jun 9 2006 // The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is presenting draft flood risk maps to communities in Travis and Burnet counties in Texas – areas that flood frequently. The...
Jun 9 2006 // FEMA announced that Delaware County, Okla., residents and business owners affected by the March 12 storms and tornadoes have only a few days left to apply for disaster assistance. June 12, 2006 is the last day applications...
May 30 2006 // The U.S. Senate confirmed R. David Paulison as FEMA’s chief last Friday, hours after a senator ended his stall on the nomination over problems with the agency’s flood insurance program.Paulison’s...
May 26 2006 // Maine Emergency Management Agency Director Arthur Cleaves is leaving his state post become New England director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.Gov. John Baldacci announced Cleaves’ departure last Friday....
May 26 2006 // The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal disaster aid has been made available in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine to help people...
May 8 2006 // The United States’ disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded.Crippled by years of poor...
May 8 2006 // News CurrentsThe United States’ disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded. Crippled by...
May 1 2006 // The Associated Press filed a story Wednesday, April 26, about a federal General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and fraud associated with its post-Katrina financial...
Apr 27 2006 // The United States’ disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded.Crippled by years of poor...
Apr 24 2006 // More than 2,000 Mississippi residents have been notified that they must repay millions of dollars in federal Hurricane Katrina benefits that were excessive or, in some cases, fraudulent.The Federal Emergency Management...
Apr 13 2006 // The nation’s top emergency planner is promising that the government has learned from past mistakes and will be prepared for the upcoming 2006 hurricane season.R. David Paulison, acting director for the Federal...
Apr 13 2006 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced it has released flood recovery guidance documents for Jefferson, Orleans and St. Bernard parishes as well as portions of Plaquemines and St. Charles parishes in...
Apr 12 2006 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun to deliver manufactured homes to Oklahoma families displaced by wildfires.The first home was delivered to Chad and Shalin Dumos in Ratliff City in southern Oklahoma. The...