CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KWWL) - More than three years after the derecho swept through Eastern Iowa, Linn County is using that experience and the lessons learned from it to improve the community emergency ...

Purdue University has incorporated major emergency planning programs into its Integrated Emergency Management Plan (IEMP). The plan considers all phases of emergency management operations in order to ...

The Building Emergency Action Plans (BEAP) shown below are the most up-to-date plans we have on file with Risk Management. To update your BEAP, visit our online Cognito Forms Building Emergency Action ...

Roof damage is pictured in north Cedar Rapids on Aug. 21, 2020, more than a week after a devastating derecho. (The Gazette) Buy Photo CEDAR RAPIDS — Linn County Sustainability is about halfway through ...

September is National Preparedness Month, and across the Nation, Emergencies highlight the importance of personal, hazard-specific, and family preparedness. In addition to updating your basic ...

Thousands of people across Oregon have been forced to evacuate this week as wildfires burned across hundreds of thousands of acres of land. Often there was little time between the Level 1, or “Get ...

A new suite of farm-focused checklists, relocation tools and emergency steps will help producers prepare long before ...

Hello! My name is Ada Tseng, and I work on the utility journalism team at the L.A. Times. Welcome to Week 5 of Unshaken, our newsletter guide to earthquake readiness and resilience. We’re breaking ...

An updated Interior Department plan to address the novel coronavirus outbreak relies heavily on using telework and generous government sick leave policies to keep it running in a prolonged pandemic.

(TNS) — The West Burlington School Board on Monday approved the district's emergency operations plan, a working document now required for all public school districts and accredited non-public schools ...