All the headlines from our FEMA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 7 2006 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has withdrawn its endorsement of levees protecting parts of Sacramento, reversing a 1998 evaluation that has facilitated a construction boom in the Natomas area.In a letter released to The...
Aug 7 2006 // U.S. Corps finds some Sacramento levees not upThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has withdrawn its endorsement of levees protecting parts of Sacramento, reversing a 1998 evaluation that has facilitated a construction boom in...
Aug 3 2006 // Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell is asking President Bush to approve a disaster declaration for the heavy rains and flash flooding that struck Connecticut in early June.The request is to help compensate municipalities and...
Aug 1 2006 // Federal officials who plan to assess flood damage in northeast Ohio and residents still needing to clean up will have to work in searing heat.The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for Monday and Tuesday in...
Jul 27 2006 // Manatee County, Fla. is installing state-of-the-art hurricane shutters on facilities responsible for treating and testing the county’s water supply; while Leesburg, Fla. in Lake County, is placing windproof hurricane...
Jul 25 2006 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced it is working with the Texas Apartment Association and rental housing owners to reach Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Katrina evacuees who have not recertified for continued...
Jul 24 2006 // Federal and state governments should work with private insurance companies to sponsor disaster mediation programs, according to a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.James Lee Witt, president of James...
Jul 24 2006 // Witt pointed out that as he looks across Florida, the Gulf coast states and America, he has recently seen more devastating events than have ever been witnessed in the history of the nation. He said that in today’s...
Jul 24 2006 // News CurrentsFederal and state governments should work with private insurance companies to sponsor disaster mediation programs, according to a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. James Lee Witt,...
Jul 24 2006 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently issued new flood maps that require people in many parts of New Orleans to elevate their houses, according to Jeff Albright, CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents of...
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 // 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...