After staying on during the transition of the previous Director of Emergency Management for the state of Florida, Kevin Guthrie was asked to assume the permanent role.

The community college has a number of programs apart of the new center including emergency management and disaster preparedness and a degree in cybersecurity. 

Disaster recovery as a service can potentially save organizations money and resources while ensuring they’re prepared for an incident that could potentially put them out of business. But what is DraaS, how can it be implemented at your organization and what are the benefits?

A number of regional and local Red Cross agencies are holding a variety of virtual natural disaster preparedness classes in honor of Red Cross month in March.

The Climate & Catastrophe Insight: 2020 Annual Report from global professional services firm Aon plc, evaluates the impact of global natural disaster events to identify trends, manage volatility and enhance resilience. Here are the costliest natural events from last year.

The 9th Annual Event Impact Management Study by BC Management will assess how organizations prepare for events and gauge how certain events have impacted them. The survey to participate in the study is now open and will close January 10, 2021.

The U.S. Embassy provided $6 million for an Emergency Operations Center in Grenada, Carriacou, an island in the West Indies for Grenada’s emergency planning, training, response and recovery efforts for natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes. 

In 2018, the U.S. experienced 14 billion-dollar-plus natural disasters, which caused approximately $90.9 billion in losses, the fourth-highest cost since 1980, according to the U.S. Household Disaster Giving in 2017 and 2018 report.