More than three dozen agencies were supporting the drill including Volusia County Emergency Management. Airport officials said any disaster at Daytona International would require a large response.

When I first started working in schools, response drills for violent incidents were rare, uncomfortable, and often avoided altogether. Fire drills, on the other hand, were routine—scheduled, practiced ...

HONOLULU — At the biennial Exercise Rim of the Pacific, the world’s largest naval training exercise, disaster response operations are growing in scale and playing a prominent role. A task force of ...

The Texas State board approved a $25 million facilities expansion of the university's ALERRT Center on Feb. 12.

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Nineteen first responder groups participated in a three-day virtual emergency response training aimed at improving communication between departments. The event ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email It was all hands-on deck, or rather, on the Clay Kaserne airfield, as trainees reacted to the effects of a notional ...

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Above, mock disaster evacuees got into a helicopter for a flight to a local hospital. RIMPAC participants and volunteers took part Thursday in training where volunteers portrayed wounded patients. At ...