The World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe has developed a free, downloadable hospital emergency response checklist. The tool, geared toward hospital administrators and managers, ...

Ten years ago this month, a software bug in an Ohio company’s control room caused a widespread, multi-day blackout, affecting 45 million Americans across eight states on the East Coast and through ...

As smoke overcame the crowd outside of Bronson Battle Creek Hospital, first responders rushed to the scene to rescue and treat the victims. However, no real danger was present. The planned scene was ...

CLIMATEWIRE | When the McBride wildfire erupted in New Mexico three years ago, David Merritt had a math problem. The fire was closing in on a Lincoln County hospital with 11 admitted patients, but the ...

“We have a plan – a disaster response plan or a mass casualty plan – that we put in effect where we move existing patients to ...

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Florida International University kicked off its 10th annual disaster field exercise today, marking a decade of preparing hundreds of students for careers in disaster management. “Disasters are ...

As the Trump administration continues to cut workforces across government, the former head of federal disaster response is sounding the alarm that agencies will be left ill-equipped to handle an ...