FEMA has been funding such efforts for decades through its property buyout program. It has invested nearly US$4 billion to purchase and raze approximately 45,000 flood-prone homes nationwide, most of ...

For office managers, investing in clear, well-placed, and properly maintained signage is both a legal responsibility and a practical safeguard. In the end, effective signage is capable of giving ...

Ensure your oxygen is contained in a fire-rated room or closet. Even if you have a sprinkler, this may be required by code. For greater safety, you may be able to run a single sprinkler head to the ...

New flood maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) identify updated flood hazards along more than 60 streams in Washoe County. The hope is that ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. This is how misinformation gets accepted as fact. A year after Oregon endures its most destructive fire season on record in 2020, state lawmakers ...

Los Gatos and Saratoga approved updated fire hazard severity zone maps last month, but some Saratoga hills residents expressed concern over relaxed designations in their neighborhoods. The Fire Hazard ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state’s contentious wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in certain areas at high risk of wildfires to stricter building codes and ...

OROVILLE — The Butte County Board of Supervisors moved forward with adopting the new Fire Hazard Severity Zone map for its local responsibility area during its meeting Tuesday, a move required by the ...

The proposed maps are set to take effect in July. The maps classify areas into moderate, high and very high hazard severity zones. Maps that more than double the local area included in fire hazard ...

The state wildfire hazard map may be dead but on its way out but wildfire is not. This is a section of the map in northwest Bend. (State of Oregon) Oregonians are from Mars and the state’s wildfire ...