Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ideally, you’d have weeks or days to prepare for an extreme weather. But the reality is, especially with floods, wildfires, and ...

As the tragedy of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami continues to unfold, foreign media have inevitably begun to ask, What are the lessons for disaster preparedness at home? A clear caveat to this ...

All these moves are especially critical for people in or near retirement Odds are, you know someone who has been a victim of a natural disaster in the past few years or have been one yourself. I speak ...

Director of Lexington Emergency Management talk about what you need to be prepared in case of an emergency or natural disaster. Kentucky Edition is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

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There are things you can do right now to prevent fires and busted pipes from happening once it starts to get freezing. As it’s starting to get colder outside, experts are giving tips on how to make ...

If you’re a Fresenius patient, you will always be urged to evacuate when a hurricane threatens. “A dialysis patient may think, ‘I can’t evacuate because I won’t get dialysis,’” Numbers said. “We ...

San Francisco was blindsided and nearly burned to rubble 100 years ago today as a pre-dawn 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked what was then called "the Paris of the West." More than 3000 people perished.