All the headlines from our FEMA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 19 2005 // A government report has found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administers the national flood insurance program, has not fully implemented reforms mandated by Congress in 2004, including improved...
Oct 11 2005 // Nine Broward County residents have been charged in Fort Lauderdale with defrauding the Federal Emergency Assistance Agency by obtaining disaster relief after Hurricane Frances made landfall last year almost 100 miles away....
Oct 3 2005 // A new federal policy outlined a week before Hurricane Katrina struck could force residents in hundreds of communities nationwide to buy flood insurance and halt construction in some low-lying areas, including parts of...
Sep 21 2005 // Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency to establish centralized locations in Louisiana to aid the recovery effort and serve as coordinating centers for the...
Sep 20 2005 // A new federal policy outlined a week before Hurricane Katrina struck could force residents in hundreds of communities nationwide to buy flood insurance and halt construction in some low-lying areas, including parts of...
Sep 19 2005 // South Floridians whose homes were destroyed or heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina have to look elsewhere for someone to pay their lodging and repair expenses as the Federal Emergency Management Agency has refused their...
Sep 19 2005 // James Lee Witt, the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, today announced the formation of a state coalition to better prepare and protect New Yorkers from the consequences of a catastrophic storm,...
Sep 9 2005 // With much discussion over just how quickly and effectively the federal government responded to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown may be the fall guy.Brown was...
Sep 5 2005 // FLORIDAReport Shows Car Theft Decreased in Most of Southeast Across the Southeast in major metropolitan areas auto theft decreas-ed dramatically in 2004, accompan-ied by a slight drop in auto theft nationally, according to...
Sep 1 2005 // Michael Brown, under secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced recently that FEMA has awarded 11 mitigation grants in...
Aug 18 2005 // One year after Hurricane Charley made landfall as the first of four major hurricanes to strike Florida, federal and state disaster assistance totals more than $5.6 billion, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s...
Aug 12 2005 // Florida Medical Examiners meeting in Key Biscayne, Fla. maintain their autopsies and investigations show that no more than 135 deaths in Florida were hurricane-related, while FEMA the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Aug 10 2005 // Aaron Brown, a Miami man sentenced to probation in Dade County, Miami, Fla., has become the second member of his family convicted of fraudulently obtaining federal disaster money for Hurricane Frances last fall.According...
Aug 10 2005 // The Florida Medical Examiners Commission will meet Thursday on Key Biscayne, Fla. to discuss findings indicating that the Federal Emergency Management Agency paid hurricane funeral claims in Florida amounting to $1.3...
Jul 25 2005 // A Miami-Dade woman who received $12,359.39 from FEMA for damage claimed to a house she no longer owned has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office told the South Florida...
Jul 17 2005 // Sixty days after severe storms and flooding struck central Nebraska, many counties and towns continue to work restoring their damaged roads, water drainage systems and infrastructure.Thirty eligible applicants for federal...
Jul 4 2005 // TRG Officials Must Pay $2.5 M Carmelo Zanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills,...
Jul 4 2005 // Quiana Riggins and Lesley Johnson have been ordered by the U.S. District Court in Miami to repay the Federal Emergency Management Agency for funds they received after filing false hurricane damage claims.Riggins and...
Jul 4 2005 // Carmelo Sanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills, have pleaded guilty to charges...
Jun 15 2005 // Working in cooperation with the State of Florida, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) used technological innovations to help meet some of the challenges brought by...