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Arghandab River Valley OEF 10-11 Spc. Lorenzo Leon rests against Pomegranate tree in the fruitful orchards of the Arghandab River Valley For Lorenzo Leon, coming home was almost as difficult as ...

A powerful windstorm with quarter-sized hail, a deluge of rain in June, and finally an early winter, white-out storm led to three natural disaster declarations in Renville County in ...

The following is a guest post from Scott Cormier, VP of Emergency Management, Environment of Care and Safety at Medxcel Facilities Management. Natural disasters cause nearly 500 deaths annually in the ...

[Photo: An aerial view of a house in Gilchrist, Texas, that survived the destruction of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. Courtesy of Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA.] Natural disasters are becoming more ...

I originally delivered this piece a few years ago during a disaster mental health training conducted by Disaster Psychiatry Outreach (update: now Vibrant's Crisis Emotional Care Team). I want to share ...

Intervention to address disasters has evolved through time into a complex policy subsystem, and disaster policy is implemented through a set of functions known as emergency management and response.