After five days of severe weather that include torrential downpours, shelters were implemented in Clarksville as more than 4,000 residents were displaced by flooding. "By the time ...

Establish defensible spaces around shelters. After a series of fires in camps in 2018, the shelter cluster in Palestine promoted the clearing of dry vegetation, waste, and debris from shelter areas.

Adirondack communities enhancing emergency communications and sheltering capacities to better respond to increasing extreme weather events.

For shelter operators, it is vital to prepare ... evacuees could avoid being in close proximity with each other. Natural disasters won’t wait until the virus subsides in Japan.

Weather disasters outside of the traditional "Tornado Alley" are driving residents in emerging threat zones to invest in ...

By urging local governments to include co-shelters in emergency planning ... state guidance and resources are crucial as natural disasters and extreme weather events continue to rise.

“People just want to know exactly what’s happening.” While emergency shelters are essential during major disasters like the 1998 ice storm and Hurricane Irene in 2011, both of which left ...