Speed vs. accountability: The call to fix FEMA and the high stakes for Florida WLRN Public Media | By Tom Hudson Published February 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM EST ...

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 ...

House GOP chairman demands FEMA accountability for Hurricane Helene after storm claims more than 200 lives. Some North Carolina GOP representatives have praised the federal response.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and lawmakers considered less error-prone courses for the organization's future during a Senate hearing Thursday. "We want to make sure FEMA has a culture ...

FEMA summit seeks to address top civil rights issues in emergency management by Cheyanne M. Daniels - 12/02/22 9:00 AM ET by Cheyanne M. Daniels - 12/02/22 9:00 AM ET ...

The federal government’s chief watchdog slammed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to the hurricane that killed thousands of people in Puerto Rico last year, saying it was ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency may have been double-billed for the funerals of hundreds of people who died of COVID-19, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report Wednesday.

In an operations update on Friday, FEMA, the U.S. government’s arm for disaster preparation, response, relief and recovery, said it planned to distribute five days’ worth of meals, water, cots ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency was so overwhelmed with other storms by the time Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last year that more than half of the workers it was deploying to disasters ...