A New York Times report found thousands of calls to FEMA went unanswered after the Department of Homeland Security laid off ...

A 2023 Government Accountability Office report indicated that FEMA only had 5,000 full-time staff members, as well as a group of reservists and emergency-response workers who could be called up to ...

When someone calls 911, they expect a highly trained professional to answer, but emergency call center workers are part of an "industry under immense pressure" because of understaffing and a host ...

A week after the government’s principal emergency response agency took the lead on the growing coronavirus pandemic, officials have been trying to catch up, hoping to streamline communication ...

The phone data published by FEMA shows that 900,000 calls were made to agency call centers during the week from Oct. 14 to Oct. 20. Forty-seven percent of the calls were not answered.

The qualification issues were exacerbated by severe staffing shortfalls at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ... FEMA maintains groups of on-call response/recovery employees ...

The 911 outage reported across the entire state has now been restored, according to the PA Emergency Management Agency.

In a tweet posted just before midnight, the agency said an investigation into what caused intermittent outages will continue.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has mismanaged tens of billions of dollars over the years, according to numerous government reports on its spending. The government agency’s response to ...

FEMA said it's "ready to support" Florida as a hurricane approaches the state, which is still reeling from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Helene.

For a closer look at the federal response to Hurricanes Milton and Helene, Geoff Bennett spoke with Keith Turi, acting associate administrator for response and recovery at FEMA.

FEMA official details federal response strategy ... acting associate administrator for response and recovery at FEMA. Aired 10/10/2024. Problems ... You can go to the FEMA app. You can call 1 ...