The volunteers who take part in search-and-rescue operations and then support disaster survivors belong to organizations that ...

POTTS CAMP, Miss. — Mississippi volunteer firefighters were dismissed on social media earlier this month after Marshall County contracted another non-profit volunteer fire department organiza… ...

It took 24 hours for FEMA search and rescue teams to arrive in Texas after state officials requested their help responding to the devastating flooding.

The last straw for the Senior FEMA Leader was the 72-hour delay to deploy search and rescue teams to the catastrophic flooding in Central Texas.

Ken Pagurek had told colleagues the Trump administration was causing ‘chaos’ inside FEMA and creating dangerous delays in disaster response.

The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.

A victim's smartwatch helped search and rescue crews locate a plane that went down in dense woods in Montana, a local sheriff's office said Monday. Responding crews found all three people on board ...

Urban Search and Rescue team Missouri Task Force 1 was deployed to Kerr County, Texas, in response to deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country. Boone County Fire Protection District ...

California had sent more search and rescue crews to Texas to assist with the ongoing response efforts related to flooding impacts.