“All disasters start local and end local” is something you’ll hear a lot in emergency management. Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPC) are a critical “tip of the spear” function in preparing ...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has submitted an official request for a “major disaster declaration” from the President through FEMA. If and when that request is approved by the President, multiple types of ...

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“All disasters start local and end local” is something you’ll hear a lot in emergency management. Local Emergency Planning Committees […] ...

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Mobile, Baldwin, Escambia, Conecuh, Covington, Coffee and Geneva counties, with a Tropical Storm Warning extending northward to the I-22/I-20 corridor. A Flood ...

From Alabama Governor Kay Ivey: This morning, I connected with FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton and Alabama Emergency Management Agency Director Jeff Smitherman as crews positioned around the state ...

Isaias will make landfall Friday night or early Saturday. There will be impacts to portions of the state beginning Friday and lasting into early Sunday, with potential power outages and flooding. NOW ...

Emergency managers, planners and responders met this week at the University of North Alabama in Florence for the Preparedness for Alabama Resilience Summit. The aim of this stakeholder-led, ...

Preparedness starts young! That was the theme at Dallas County’s “Be Ready Day” held at Bloch Park in Selma this week. Local schoolchildren from around the Selma area gathered and learned how to be ...

A Heat Advisory is in effect for the entire state, will be expanded over time through the weekend, and likely into at least the middle of next week. Afternoon Heat Index values will be 100-110 each ...

Showers and thunderstorms are forecast near the coast on Thursday, with scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms across all of Alabama Friday into Friday night. Periods of heavy rainfall will ...

This is a season of change at the Crenshaw County Emergency Management Agency as longtime director Elliott Jones retires and Thomas Strickland steps into the position. Elliott Jones has spent much of ...