Cleanup efforts in this northeastern Pennsylvania community entered its third day Wednesday while local, state and federal officials crunched numbers to get a dollar amount on damages from flash flooding that damaged homes and washed out bridges and roads. Damages …
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has asked U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack for a disaster designation for six western Iowa counties hit by flooding along the Missouri River. Branstad on Wednesday requested the designation, which would make disaster programs available …
Seven parishes in Louisiana have been declared disaster areas due to drought by the U.S. Agriculture Department. The parishes are Beauregard, Caddo, DeSoto, Sabine, Vernon, Calcasieu and Cameron. State Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says the parishes were included in a …
Dodge County officials have issued a disaster declaration for a storm that hit Fremont last week. Region 5/6 emergency manager Bill Pook told the Fremont Tribune that preliminary assessments put damage to public property from the June 20 storm at …
Federal and state officials say Illinois residents have received more than $8.4 million in disaster grants in just more than three weeks. The grants help pay for temporary rental assistance, home repairs and other needs not covered by insurance or …
Ravaged by spring flooding, Vermont is getting a helping hand from Uncle Sam. President Barack Obama declared the state a major disaster Wednesday, clearing the way for federal aid to homeowners, businesses and public agencies hit by the worst spring …
Mexico Friday announced that it has bought more than $400 million worth of insurance to protect vulnerable areas from the impact of hurricanes and other natural disasters. Mexico purchased 4.8 billion pesos ($404 million) of insurance to “protect public infrastructure …
When the object is to beat a disaster to its target, sometimes bells and whistles are necessary. Also, pop-ups, blinking lights, vibrations, sirens, buzzing, digital displays, pages, Facebook and Twitter tickles, beeping, calm voices, even reversing the escalator from up …
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has asked the federal government to pay the full cost of repairing public buildings and infrastructure damaged by recent floods and tornadoes. Nixon said that his request is based on the historic devastation caused by a …
According to a bulletin on its web site, the Insurance Council of Australia has released updated figures on “how the general industry has responded to the enormous task of assessing over 118,000 insurance claims received as a result of the …