At several points during the hearing, the state emergency management chief directed attention to the role of local emergency ...

The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is pushing back on criticisms of the federal response to ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas state lawmakers gathered at the Capitol Wednesday to examine the catastrophic July 4th flooding that ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A review by Texas lawmakers into the catastrophic July 4 floods has no intention of second-guessing ...

U.S. House Democrats on Wednesday pressed David Richardson, acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, about his ...

Ken Pagurek, a longtime Philadelphia firefighter who served as chief of FEMA’s search and rescue branch for the past year, ...

The severity of the flash flooding that killed more than 130 people in Texas's Hill Country was difficult to predict, ...

Models predicted a few inches of rain instead of the torrential onslaught that devastated Central Texas earlier this month, ...

Urban Search and Rescue Chief Ken Pagurek quit over a new policy that led to delays in FEMA's response to the flooding in ...

The head of FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue branch, Ken Pagurek, has resigned due to frustration over the agency's response to ...

"She was recovered in the Kerrville area," Abbott said in a statement on social media. The deadly flooding over the Fourth of ...