If you have kids, you could draw a simple floor-plan map of your home and mark these ways out. Let your family members know that the safest escape route during a fire is the one with the least ...

State and federal authorities tracked the path of the fake “Hurricane Alicia” on Tuesday as part of two-day drill aimed at avoiding the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina.

Do You Have an Evacuation Plan that Works? Every emergency contains a list of things that went wrong or could have been done better. It is essential this information be evaluated and adjustments made.

The 14-hour traffic jams and gas shortages that accompanied last year’s hurricanes led to better evacuation plans for some hurricane-prone states. But that does not mean the next evacuation will ...

Regional evacuation plan guides elected officials, emergency managers and others during a crisis. September 10, 2009 • Jeff Hescock. Facebook; LinkedIn; Twitter; Print; ...