A New York Times report found thousands of calls to FEMA went unanswered after the Department of Homeland Security laid off ...

Sources have said FEMA wasn’t authorized to launch search and rescue teams until 72 hours after flooding began.

Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem denied that Texas flood victims could not contact FEMA's call centers in the days following the disaster.

The DHS head has been accused of being unprepared to handle the natural disaster, which killed 129 people and left 160 ...

The Department of Homeland Security says it's making FEMA less "bloated." Opponents say that cost people their lives in Texas ...

As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that ...

As natural disasters like flooding, tornadoes and landslides piled up this spring, FEMA accumulated a backlog of disaster ...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is under fire amid reports of a botched disaster response effort in Texas, one that the editorial board of the state’s biggest newspaper is comparing to ...

A 911 outage is a disruption in emergency call services where individuals are unable to reach dispatchers by dialing 9-1-1.

A week after the government’s principal emergency response agency took the lead on the growing coronavirus pandemic, officials have been trying to catch up, hoping to streamline communication ...

Most of the shortcomings focused on the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and many of those outlined in the report — a lack of key supplies on the island before the storm, unqualified ...