Since taking office, President Trump has called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, suggesting it ...

The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can ...

Life-threatening conditions like cardiac arrest, stroke, and acute respiratory failure are desperately time sensitive. With ...

Republicans and Democrats in Congress questions the FEMA chief about the agency's response following flooding in Hill Country that left more than 130 people dead.

FEMA acting administrator David Richardson defended the agency’s response, denying claims of delays and calling the federal-state coordination a model for disaster response ...

Ken Pagurek, head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, resigns following delayed response to Texas floods ...

The loss of autonomy and direct reporting to Congress, unfunded mandates outside the scope of the 1988 Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, and major increases in the number of large ...