Ken Blanchard who is with FEMA and heads up their Higher Education Project at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI), has put together a list of the Top Ten Competencies for Professional Emergency ...

WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate announced that current FEMA Region VI Administrator Tony Russell was selected to become the new Superintendent of FEMA's ...

Like all professions, emergency management has evolved throughout the years to become what it is today — a defined field of work that’s paving a career path for future employees. The modern concept of ...

The FEMA Emergency Management Institute’s (EMI) Curriculum Management Branch offers the Independent Study Program (ISP). This is a distance learning program which offers training, free of charge, to ...

Here is a fun trivia question to throw out at dinner parties. What was the name of America’s oldest learning institution when it was founded in 1636? The Answer? New College. It was founded by the ...

Emergency Management (EM) Practitioners and Academicians have been investigating key elements to professionalize and standardize the EM career field for over twenty years. This paper presents findings ...

Emergency management is a field dedicated to creating frameworks that help communities reduce their vulnerability to different types of disasters and cope with their aftereffects. These threats may ...

When natural disasters or other emergencies occur at locations with farmed animals, the impacts can be devastating. On large factory farms where thousands or even millions of animals are warehoused, ...

In institutions that conduct animal research, emergency response planning historically has been delegated to departments that have the primary responsibility of ensuring human health and safety.

Nearly 40 years ago, I was asked by my fire chief whether I would consider handling media requests for information about fires, emergencies and fire safety. He informed me of a new term that was being ...