FEMA

FEMA officials say the cascade of emergencies — from hurricanes and wildfires to COVID-19 and Afghan resettlement — is stretching the agency thin.

President Joe Biden detailed his administration’s efforts to provide federal assistance to competing climate crises across the U.S., including historic floods from Hurricane Ida across the southern and eastern states and the devastating Caldor Fire in the Sierra Nevadas. “We’re all in this together. The nation is here to help.”

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said on Wednesday that there have been requests submitted to FEMA for commercial fuel in the region.

Federal officials say hundreds of emergency responders are in place in Louisiana and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has power restoration experts and generators at the ready as Hurricane Ida bashes the region.

FEMA will conduct a nationwide test of its emergency alert system on Aug. 11, sending messages to TVs, radios and some cell phones. Here’s what you can expect and when

Although the facility was created to handle a spring 2020 onslaught of COVID-19 deaths, it now holds the bodies of people who have died of various causes and are awaiting final arrangements.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava addressed the media on Friday afternoon to talk about the rescue efforts in Surfside, Florida, following a condo collapse on Thursday morning.

Kevin Guthrie, director at Florida Division of Emergency Management, spoke Friday morning about an emergency declaration to assist in efforts in Surfside, Florida.

The 200+ volunteers at FEMA’s urban search and rescue team in Beverly, Massachusetts, know how to do it all. They’ve seen all kinds of disasters and helped in the days following 9/11. Mark Foster walked us through what first responders in Florida are likely doing right now.

As first responders in Florida sifted through the rubble of a deadly condo collapse, Massachusetts crews demonstrated what goes into the recovery effort. The partial collapse of a 12-story building in Surfside, near Miami, left at least one person dead and scores unaccounted for. The Massachusetts Task Force Urban Search and Rescue team, a FEMA group based in Beverly, gave…

As the Atlantic hurricane season approaches, President Biden says FEMA will distribute $1 billion for states to shore up their resilience ahead of the threat of storms and wildfires.

The federal government recently launched a public assistance program that seeks to help family members of people who died due to COVID-19 receive reimbursements for funeral expenses through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. However, complaints of scams were reported before the program even officially launched.

With the application period for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s COVID-19 funeral reimbursement program now open, Attorney General Maura Healey and the Massachusetts Funeral Directors Association are advising residents to be wary of scams and not to give out personal and financial information over the phone or email. Eligible individuals can receive up to $9,000 per funeral and $35,500 per…

Maine has opened the second FEMA mobile vaccine site in all of New England Monday, and it could make an impact in underserved communities.

FEMA’s COVID-19 Funeral Assistance program will reimburse individuals and households for COVID-19 related funeral expenses incurred between Jan. 20, 2020 and December 2020 to help ease some of the financial stress and burden caused by the pandemic.

According to CIC Health, 4,000 vaccine doses will be administered Wednesday and Thursday, 6,000 on Friday and Saturday and 7,000 by next week.

FEMA’s mass vaccination site at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston is ramping up its vaccine supply beginning Wednesday in a bid to increase vaccinations in the Bay State. The Hynes Convention Center is one of 21 federally backed vaccination sites across the nation. For the next eight weeks, the site will administer 6,000 more doses daily than the 1,000…

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, who previously worked at Massachusetts General Hospital, toured the Hynes Convention Center in Boston on Tuesday to see one of the state’s FEMA mass vaccination sites.

The mass vaccination site at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center is getting a boost from FEMA in the form of 6,000 more vaccine doses per day.

The Community Vaccination Center program will be open to the public starting March 31.