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- American Medical Response Provides Largest EMS Deployment in U.S. History
- GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. -- American Medical Response AMR, a subsidiary of Emergency Medical Services Corporation (NYSE: EMS) ("EMSC"), is completing an historic deployment to provide patient evacuations and disaster relief efforts in three Gulf Coast states for Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Under AMR's national contract with FEMA, AMR and its...
- Research articles 2008-10-02
- Names, Faces & Events
- Autocar announced that Gene Parker has rejoined the company as director of vocational products sales and marketing. He returns to Autocar from American LaFrance, where he was national sales manager for the Condor product. Brembo North America recently appointed Adrian Smith general manager of its North American operations. Smith will...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- Federal disaster chief promises aggressive federal response to
- WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration's disaster assistance chief promised no repeat of the Hurricane Katrina experience Wednesday, saying "this is a new FEMA" as Washington weighed options to help California wildfire victims. "We're going to make sure this operation runs as smoothly as possible given the size of...
- Research articles 2007-10-24
- Commentary: Find another favorite when questions go unanswered
- Last Saturday, we charted the course of our state by choosing a new crop of leaders, including the chief CEO. Some races were won outright; others will require a runoff to be determined. But before we look ahead to our future and the Nov. 17 Election Day, let's...
- Research articles 2007-10-22
- Commentary: Jindal still owes voters full accounting of agenda
- On Saturday, we charted the course of our state by choosing a new crop of leaders, including the chief CEO. But before we look ahead to our future and the Nov. 17 election day, let's review some political highs and lows of the campaign just concluded. ...
- Research articles 2007-10-21
- Cities worried about federal disaster response plan.(Federal Emergency Management Agency)(United States. Department of Homeland Security)
- State and local officials and some members of Congress greeted a Department of Homeland Security DHS draft update of the plan for coordinating disaster preparedness and response with skepticism and dismay last week at a heating before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development,...
- Research articles 2007-09-17
- The KatrinaRitaVille Express Tour
- Activists take a FEMA trailer on the road.An interview with historian, preservationist, community organizer, and economic and environmental justice activist Derrick Evans appeared in Dollars & Sense in March/April 2006. At the time, six months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the Gulf Coast, Evans already saw clear signs that...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Floods caused unseen damage, Oklahoma officials say
- Though officials are working to assess the amount of damage caused by the storms that have repeatedly flooded parts of Oklahoma over the last few months, the true cost of the storms won't be known for years to come, transportation officials told members of the state Legislature on Thursday. The...
- Research articles 2007-08-31
- US poised to help storm-threatened Jamaica
- CRAWFORD, United States AFP — The United States is prepared to send disaster relief assistance to Jamaica if it becomes necessary after the passage of powerful hurricane Dean, the White House said Saturday. The US package would include aid teams, relief supplies, water containers, medicine, generators, and disaster hygiene...
- Research articles 2007-08-18
- Coffeyville Resources Provides FEMA Individual Assistance Filing for Kansas and Oklahoma Residents
- COFFEYVILLE, Kan. -- Starting today, staff at the Coffeyville Resources claims office will be assisting victims of the recent record-setting flooding with online filing for FEMA individual assistance. Computer terminals have been provided for residents at the claims office located at 900 Hall St. in Coffeyville. Kansas and Oklahoma...
- Research articles 2007-07-09
- Insulated concrete form plant opening in Lumberton soon
- An insulated concrete form plant this opening in Lumberton that may greatly improve how South Mississippi buildings withstand hurricanes. On July 9. Mississippi Greenbuilt Corporation will begin production of polystyrene form blocks that are filled with concrete before used in construction. Plant owner Hensley Lee and Lumberton Mayor Aaron Lott...
- Research articles 2007-06-25
- URS Joint Venture Selected to Provide Housing Inspection Services for National Disasters and Emergencies
- Contract Has Maximum Value of $750 Million SAN FRANCISCO -- URS Corporation (NYSE: URS) today announced that it has been awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract by the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA, as part of a joint venture with Fairfax, VA-based Dewberry, to provide...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Legislative preview - Cutting into La.'s $14B backlog of road
- Cutting into the staggering $14-billion backlog of highway and bridge repairs will be a major task for state legislators who begin spending a record $26.7-billion state budget today. Rep. Joel Robideaux, I-Lafayette, and state Sen. Mike Michot, R- Lafayette, have the long-term answer to the problem, Lafayette Mayor-...
- Research articles 2007-04-30
- Baker Not Re-Selected for Protested FEMA Housing Inspection Services Contract
- To: BUSINESS EDITORSContact: David G. Higie of Michael Baker Corporation, +1-412-269- 6449 ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Michael Baker Jr., Inc., an engineering unit of Michael Baker Corporation (Amex: BKR), announced today that it has been informed by the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA that...
- Research articles 2007-04-06
- Federal government approves more than $2.4M for Louisiana tornado,
- More than three weeks after severe storms and tornadoes struck Jefferson, Orleans and St. Martin parishes, the federal government has approved more than $2.4 million in disaster assistance funds. The storms and tornadoes struck Feb. 12-13. The fund breakdown includes: * More than $2...
- Research articles 2007-03-12
- Dewberry
- Dewberry Dewberry 8401 Arlington Boulevard Fairfax, Virginia 22031-4666 U.S.A. Telephone: (703) 849-0100 Fax: (703) 849-0118 Web site: http://www.dewberry.com Private Company Founded: 1956 as Greenhorne, O'Mara, Dewberry & Nealon Employees: 1,840 Sales: $562 (2005 est.) NAIC: 541310 Architectural Services; 541330 Engineering...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Small packets, big benefits.(San Francisco LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired)(S and S Specialty Systems)
- Edited by Melissa Larson, Managing Editor The San Francisco LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired has announced the startup of a new nonwovens equipment line supplied by S&S Specialty Systems (www.ssspecialtysystems.com ) for production of interfolded tissue products. The new equipment allows the...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- 13th COSCOM support of Task Force Katrina
- On 3 September 2005, 5 days after the devastating landfall of Hurricane Katrina in southeast Louisiana, a leaders' reconnaissance team from the 13th Corps Support Command COSCOM [now known as the 13th Sustainment Command Expeditionary] departed Fort Hood, Texas, for New Orleans. After assessing the damage, the COSCOM's commander,...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- FEMA official outlines changes
- NEW ORLEANS -- People displaced by future hurricanes will probably not get the $2,000 federal handout that went to Hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees last year, a top official in the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Sunday. The elimination of that post-hurricane financial aid is one of many...
- Research articles 2006-07-17
- LA Swift bus service extended through hurricane season
- The free bus service that is transporting displaced residents between Baton Rouge and New Orleans will continue operating through the end of hurricane season. The Federal Emergency Management Agency informed the state transportation and labor departments, which have coordinated the service, they would pick up the tab for...
- Research articles 2006-06-30
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