Although FEMA has funded and conducted soil sampling at some of California’s biggest wildfires over the past two decades, the federal agency changed its approach in 2020, Brandi Richard Thompson ...

said it would be a “huge mistake” to terminate the Federal Emergency Response Agency ... like Hurricane Helene and the fires in California,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has ... firestorm have swelled to more than $250 billion. As wildfires continue in Southern California, estimates of the total economic loss from the ...