UW nursing students prepare to transport a manikin through an obstacle course to practice moving an injured person during recent disaster management leadership training. (UW Photo) The University of ...

A member of the Rhode Island Medical Reserve Corps intubates a simulator during the Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in ...

Whether these events are natural, like hurricanes, or man-made, such as deliberate acts of destruction, they can have a crippling effect on businesses and employees. Insurance can replace buildings, ...

Disasters know no boundary lines. Floods, earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, drought, conflict — they happen anywhere and everywhere on our planet. It’s why the University of Delaware’s ...

This year’s simulation explores how disaster response lessons could apply to Cuba during a future transition environment.

WATERBURY — FEMA Region 1 held an event dubbed Frosty Force earlier this month, simulating an ice storm to bring together federal, state and other disaster response capabilities in the New England ...

Florida International University students in the school’s Academy for International Disaster Preparedness (AIDP) are at it again, this week conducting the ninth annual two-day disaster field course.