The scrutiny on the agency comes as President Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned the necessity of FEMA and called for ...

U.S. House Democrats on Wednesday pressed David Richardson, acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, about his ...

House Republicans and Democrats sharply scrutinized the federal response to the Texas flooding disaster that killed at least ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — After the devastating Fourth of July flooding in Kerr County that claimed the lives of 137 people, FEMA ...

Ingram officials have been waiting to hear from Kerr County’s emergency management coordinator after feeling as if they were ...

The first Legislative hearing into the July Fourth floods revealed gaps in training and communications. It also countered ...

The head of FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue branch, Ken Pagurek, has resigned due to frustration over the agency's response to ...

A bipartisan panel of Texas House and Senate lawmakers were scheduled to hear from at least 17 state and local leaders during a July 23 hearing about the state’s response to the July 4-5 flooding in ...

Ken Pagurek, a longtime Philadelphia firefighter who served as chief of FEMA’s search and rescue branch for the past year, ...

The decision was likely in part due to the agency's delayed response to the flooding disaster in Central Texas. Senior FEMA ...

David Richardson, the acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, defended the Trump administration’s ...

The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.