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How to improve California’s emergency alert system

A much more powerful system — the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Wireless Emergency Alert, or WEA — could have pushed an immediate alert to every cellphone in the danger zone. It wasn’t used. ... read more

Are we ready yet for potentially disastrous impacts of space weather?

The national power grids are designed to withstand a single failure such as this without leading to a cascade to a more widespread collapse of the system. However ... how you could scale up dealing ... read more

Lost in the Storm

Behind him in the house, an emergency alert ... National Incident Management System, a protocol that arose from efforts to jointly battle wildfires in the 1970s and that was adopted nationally after ... read more

Lake Chad: The World’s Most Complex Humanitarian Disaster

In recent years, the Lake Chad region has become the setting of the world’s most complex humanitarian disaster, devastated by converging ... Eventually, they spotted a canoe moving toward them, ... read more

California Fire Map: Fires Near Me Right Now & Containment Updates [August 17]

Half a decade later, local staff continues to work on restoration efforts.” This fire is off Highway 140 and Hite Cove, near El Portal in Mariposa County. It’s burning west of Yosemite National Park . ... read more

Houston "not out of the woods yet" as Harvey rainfall persists -- live updates

The disaster proclamation will allow federal funds to flow into state and local relief ... 4 storm The National Hurricane Center has upgraded Hurricane Harvey to a Category 4 storm with maximum ... read more

'My World Was Burning': The North Bay Fires and What Went Wrong

A five-month KQED investigation of what happened that first night of the fires found a series of failures and missteps by both local and state ... t send its first alert to residents until more than ... read more

One year later, Napa County recovering from fires, preparing for next disaster

That means about 75 percent of those who lost homes aren’t yet ready to rebuild or might be moving ... Alert (WEA) system owned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This system allows the ... read more

After Hawaii, Renewed Calls for Civil Defense

The system was further weakened as local officials siphoned off funds toward disasters they experienced ... agencies would rush to the scene of the disaster. The Department of Defense would mobilize ... read more

California Fire Map: Track Fires Near Me Right Now [UPDATED for August 15]

News is constantly changing, so call your local ... National Forest, but about 1,600 acres are on the Inyo National Forest. The northeast, east, and southern flanks of the fire are contained and ... read more

The Modern Hunter-Gatherer

more exquisitely alert. Predator and prey alike move according to their own maps of this ground, their own forms of attention and their own systems of instinct, systems that evolved expressly to ... read more

‘We’re just getting prepared for the worst’: Florence pounds flooded Carolinas as death toll rises to 32

The agency, along with the Federal Communications Commission, had planned to test the system Thursday afternoon. The test would have included sending something out through the Wireless Emergency ... read more