Emergency management degree programs have been popping up at universities throughout the U.S. over the last decade. But are the degrees actually helping students get jobs?

Actually most emergency management jobs are "additional duties" that are assigned to fire, law enforcement, public works and other administrative personnel. Most counties and cities are small and ...

The emergency manager today needs to be especially well rounded in four basic job duties: response, preparedness, recovery and mitigation/prevention. Having actually worked in a disaster and ...

CANTON — Police Chief Christopher Arciero has been given the duties of the town’s emergency management director, along with a $12,000 raise. That change was made at a special town meeting on ...

Emergency Management Agencies in Illinois have received federal funding cuts, which has put strains on their operations and ...

The district, according to sources, is expected to run out of money in coming weeks. Current DPS emergency manager Darnell Earley will be done on Feb. 29.

Last fall, city-county emergency management director Bob Nelson announced he plans to retire on Jan. 1, 2003, and recommended the joint commission look at assigning the duties to existing city and ...

Former Bastrop public safety director and police chief James Altgelt has taken a new job as Bastrop County’s first assistant emergency management coordinator. Altgelt retired from the city on ...

The letter is addressed to the FEMA Review Council, a 12-person group of elected officials, emergency managers and other officials from mostly Republican states that President Donald Trump appointed ...

When George Gilbert started his job as West Point’s new emergency manager May 23, he was immediately thrown into an emergency situation as the COVID-19 pandemic spread throughout the world.