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For these Mexican firefighters, finding migrants’ bodies on the border prepared them to help in the Texas flooding recovery
Techniques honed during routine Rio Grande searches proved invaluable in the search and recovery efforts after the ...
FEMA’s director defends the response to Texas flooding during a hearing with lawmakers.
David Richardson, the acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, defended the Trump administration’s ...
Leaders of Texas town hit by floods frustrated over lack of answers from top emergency official
Officials in Ingram, Texas, which was hit hard by the July 4 floods, have urgent questions for their county’s emergency ...
FEMA head who resigned after Texas floods will return to Philadelphia Fire Department
Ken Pagurek, a longtime Philadelphia firefighter who served as chief of FEMA’s search and rescue branch for the past year, ...
FEMA Chief of Urban Search and Rescue Ken Pagurek resigns weeks after Central Texas flooding
Ken Pagurek, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Urban Search and Rescue chief, has resigned amid criticism over the ...
Texas county’s emergency management coordinator was likely asleep in critical morning hours of deadly floods, sheriff says
Testimony will be heard from those in charge of managing rivers as well as emergency managers and first responders about the ...
Texas flood survivors offer mixed reviews of FEMA as the agency awaits uncertain future
As contaminated Guadalupe River water receded following the deadly flooding in Kerrville, Texas, this month, residents ...
Lawmakers file more than a dozen bills addressing floods, emergency response
Response to the Hill Country floods is the top priority for a special session of the Texas Legislature. Lawmakers have ...