But the clearest cause for worry is in western North Carolina, where the Trump administration is balking at providing ...

The nation’s top agency for response and recovery work has endured significant upheaval since Trump’s return to the White ...

As President Trump remakes the agency, former officials say the changes could leave states without key federal support after ...

David Richardson, Trump's head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said he only recently learned there's such a thing ...

In a meeting with FEMA staff, David Richardson said he was unaware the United States had a hurricane season. Two staff ...

A spokesperson said that David Richardson, acting administrator of FEMA as of early May, was joking. During the briefing, ...

An official from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA, said he meant the comment as a joke.

Theses are emergency contact numbers for Polk County, its municipalities, plus electric companies and aid services.

With hurricane season officially underway, worries are mounting around whether President Trump’s cuts to the federal government have endangered the nation’s disaster response. The concern is ...

The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was joking when he said he was not aware the U.S. had an official hurricane season, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ...

President Donald Trump and his allies have repeatedly floated the idea of terminating the emergency disaster agency.