FEMA

As the Atlantic hurricane season approaches, President Biden says FEMA will distribute $1 billion for states to shore up their resilience ahead of the threat of storms and wildfires.

The federal government recently launched a public assistance program that seeks to help family members of people who died due to COVID-19 receive reimbursements for funeral expenses through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. However, complaints of scams were reported before the program even officially launched.

FEMA’s COVID-19 Funeral Assistance program will reimburse individuals and households for COVID-19 related funeral expenses incurred between Jan. 20, 2020 and December 2020 to help ease some of the financial stress and burden caused by the pandemic.

Beginning Monday, people can apply for financial help for funeral expenses from coronavirus deaths through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Program, the LA County Office of Emergency Management said.

The Biden administration is facing growing questions about why it wasn’t more prepared for an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border

The Biden administration is turning to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help managing and caring for record numbers of unaccompanied immigrant children who are streaming into the United States by illegally crossing the border with Mexico.

President Joe Biden discussed the federal response to the winter storms in his visit to Houston, Texas, on Friday. “We will be true partners to help you recover and rebuild from the storms and this pandemic and the economic crisis. We’re in it for the long haul.” FEMA, he said, is providing millions of gallons of water, meals, and assistance...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on Tuesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was expanding disaster relief coverage for an additional 31 counties in Texas following the state’s devastating storms. Psaki also highlighted President Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to Houston to survey the damage.

In a call with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Thursday night, President Joe Biden pledged federal support for the state as the severe weather situation that left millions without power in freezing conditions continued

The new site is in East Los Angeles, located near communities hardest hit by the coronavirus. Beverly White reported on NBC4 News on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021.

Crippling winter weather is hampering vaccination efforts in swaths of the country and that has forced the cancellation of some mass inoculation events.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is deploying or supporting vaccination sites in at least 11 states after President Joe Biden ordered the government to get on a war footing in his mission to vaccinate 300 million Americans by summer’s end, NBC News reports. The states are Arizona, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, according...

President-elect Joe Biden is nominating New York emergency department commissioner Deanne Criswell to serve as the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator

Riverside County has landed in the top 10 of an unenviable list — the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s rankings of the riskiest counties in America.

U.S. experts have calculated the riskiest and safest counties in the country for disasters, and Los Angeles is on the shakiest ground

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday warned victims of California’s wildfires and other natural disasters to beware of swindlers who pose as official aid workers or relatives trying to help them get government assistance.

Advocates for nursing homes are calling on the federal government to investigate its own program to distribute critically needed personal protective equipment to facilities across the country. They say shipments have fallen short of what was promised during a White House press briefing at the end of April. Some local nursing homes got shipments of supplies from the federal government…

Administrators at a Colorado nursing home hard hit by COVID-19 say shipments of personal protective equipment needed to protect their staff were seized and redirected by the federal government. They are still waiting for an explanation.

More than two dozen Federal Emergency Management Agency employees, including at least one who worked in the agency’s main response center, have tested positive for the coronavirus, sources told NBC News on Tuesday. People are “dropping like flies” — in terms of being temporarily sidelined by COVI-19, the disease associated with the coronavirus — said a person familiar with the response...