Industry push to send leftover FEMA trailers to Haiti stirs backlash, called 'self-serving' The trailer industry and lawmakers are pressing the government to ...
Ex-FEMA worker, cousin plead guilty to $721K Hurricane Katrina fraud A former Federal Emergency Management Agency worker and her cousin have pleaded guilty ...
Fewer Katrina, Rita victims in FEMA trailers but challenges remain on road to recovery Nearly 1,600 families in Louisiana and Mississippi remain in government-supplied trailers and mobile homes more than four years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. State and federal officials see ...
This Dec. 23, 2009 photo shows a FEMA trailer standing outside the home of Byron Mercier in Gentilly in New Orleans. Nearly 1,600 families in Louisiana and Mississippi remain in government-supplied trailers and mobile homes more than four years after hurricanes Katrina ...
Imagine tearing open that large present under the Christmas tree with your name on it and finding inside... a fire extinguisher. Or a foldable ladder. Or a smoke alarm in that smaller box. Those, plus a home disaster kit including food, water ...
Lawyers negotiating deal to resolve thousands of claims over FEMA trailer fumes Lawyers for one of several trailer manufacturers accused of supplying the federal government with toxic hurricane shelters said Wednesday they were negotiating a settlement for thousands of claims. A federal ...
The lead US federal disaster agency is hoping to both inform and gather information through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, its top official said Wednesday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), sharply criticized for its slow response to events like ...
A day after an enthusiastic, almost-gushing crowd met President Barack Obama on his first visit to New Orleans since taking office, some in this still-suffering, hurricane-struck city wondered when platitudes and political speech would give way to greater progress. Among them was ...
Rep. Hodes of NH questions Social Security chief on mix-up involving US, foreign numbers Rep. Paul Hodes has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate and stop a processing glitch that linked U.S. numbers to those issued in three foreign countries and ...
Rescuers reached scenes of stunning devastation on Wednesday after a killer tsunami obliterated Samoan island villages, killing at least 148 people and leaving scores more missing. As distraught relatives picked through the rubble of homes and tourist resorts destroyed by Tuesday's 8.0-magnitude ...
US disaster assistance teams helping in the recovery effort on tsunami-devastated American Samoa were providing critically needed aid including emergency power and medical supplies, a top aid official said Thursday. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) chief Craig Fugate said two disaster recovery ...
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday offered his personal and "deepest sympathies" to victims of the tsunami in the Samoan islands that killed at least 113 people. "My deepest sympathies are with the families who lost loved ones and many people who ...
