The emergency management field can provide extensive career opportunities for transitioning veterans in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Some titles that may interest veterans seeking a new ...

As an emergency manager in my mid-20s, the question I get asked most often by my peers when talking about my profession is how I got involved. More specifically they ask how they could get involved ...

As much as we all might love or hate being a law enforcement officer, all good things must come to an end. Since many law enforcement agencies offer retirement at an earlier age than the private ...

Jacqueline McBride’s life has been defined by disasters. When she was a baby, neck-high waters forced her father to carry her over his head while evacuating during a devastating flash flood. Then in ...

Kevin Guthrie operates "Alligator Alcatraz." Some emergency managers worry that could scare Hispanic residents away from ...

FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

Emergency managers are stretched thin as climate disasters and cyberthreats grow. Chronic underfunding and mission creep have ...

The manager of emergency preparedness and disaster recovery plans, develops and manages the corporate emergency preparedness/disaster recovery programs under senior management direction. He or she is ...

Plenty has changed in 911 and emergency communications and management over the past three decades, but one thing hasn’t; If a ...

The city of Longmont is in the process of hiring a new emergency management director for its Public Safety Department. The position was vacated in May by former Emergency Management Director Dan Eamon ...