FEMA was created in 1979 by an executive order by President Jimmy Carter. The federal agency has over 20,000 employees and is responsible for coordinating responses to disasters in the U.S ...

Trump: Will Sign Executive Order to Fundamentally Change or Get Rid of FEMA ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would sign an executive order to ...

President Donald Trump warned late Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is set to face a reckoning following four years under the Biden administration, arguing the ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — President Donald Trump's administration has appointed a new interim FEMA director, Cameron Hamilton. President Trump's arrival is anticipated at the Asheville airport ...

Since Hurricane Katrina, when the federal response was severely criticized, FEMA has been led by disaster management professionals who have run state or local emergency management agencies ...

27, maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency show. The maps, which show verified damage to homes as of Jan. 7, were presented to the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners at its Jan. 16 ...

Federal law prohibits FEMA from “duplicating” benefits you receive from another source, which include the crowdfunding site. Brandi Richard Thompson, a public affairs officer with FEMA ...

The emergency declaration will “erect physical barriers” to support U.S.-Mexico border wall construction and deploy military assets under the command of the Secretary of Defense, according to ...

Criswell, the outgoing FEMA administrator, sits for an exit interview with ABC. Whether it is a hurricane, major tornado, wildfire or anything in between, disasters "don't discriminate" in where ...

When Kangana Ranaut announced that she would direct Emergency, many felt it might be another weapon to whip the Congress in the election year to limit the memory of the grand old party’s rule ...

A Jan. 9 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims a federal emergency response agency is offering more money to California wildfire survivors than to North Carolina residents affected by ...