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Officials in Ingram, Texas, which was hit hard by the July 4 floods, have urgent questions for their county’s emergency ...
The first Texas Legislature hearing began with a somber prayer and promise not to play a blame game. But Chief Nim Kidd ...
Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management and representatives from the Upper Guadalupe River Authority ...
Models predicted a few inches of rain instead of the torrential onslaught that devastated Central Texas earlier this month, ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting leader has adamantly defended the federal government’s response to historic ...
The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can ...
Professional crisis communicators watched the news conferences with dismay. Deflecting blame is not helpful if politicians ...
During the first legislative hearing after historic flooding killed 137 people in Central Texas, state and regional leaders testified about communications challenges, limited flood warning ...
As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...
As deadly floods ravaged Texas, FEMA’s response was stalled by political interference, bureaucratic delays, and personal oversight from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—leading to the ...
A week after catastrophic floods in Central Texas, key questions remain unanswered about how state and local officials ...
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is under fire amid reports of a botched disaster response effort in Texas, one that the editorial board of the state’s biggest newspaper is comparing to ...