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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is setting up a mobile registration center in El Cajon this weekend to help East County residents who were impacted by the Valley Fire. More than 17,000 acres scorched through rural East County in September, destroying 30 residences in its path and injuring three firefighters who tenaciously battled the unforgiving flames. During its peak, 1,420…

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday warned victims of California’s wildfires and other natural disasters to beware of swindlers who pose as official aid workers or relatives trying to help them get government assistance.

Advocates for nursing homes are calling on the federal government to investigate its own program to distribute critically needed personal protective equipment to facilities across the country. They say shipments have fallen short of what was promised during a White House press briefing at the end of April. Some local nursing homes got shipments of supplies from the federal government…

San Diego County is slated to receive more than $1 million in coronavirus-related humanitarian funding to assist with food and shelter needs during the pandemic, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Monday.

Administrators at a Colorado nursing home hard hit by COVID-19 say shipments of personal protective equipment needed to protect their staff were seized and redirected by the federal government. They are still waiting for an explanation.

More than two dozen Federal Emergency Management Agency employees, including at least one who worked in the agency’s main response center, have tested positive for the coronavirus, sources told NBC News on Tuesday. People are “dropping like flies” — in terms of being temporarily sidelined by COVI-19, the disease associated with the coronavirus — said a person familiar with the response...

Federal Emergency Management Agency officials told members of Congress earlier this week that the projected demand for ventilators required for coronavirus-stricken patients “outstrips the capacity” of the Strategic National Stockpile, the House Oversight Committee said Thursday.

Apple has developed a new website and app that will provide a screening tool for COVID-19 symptoms as well as up-to-date information from trusted sources about the coronavirus outbreak. The software announced Friday was developed in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control, the White House-led coronavirus task force and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.  The COVID-19 app is available on Apple’s App Store. There’s also...

A top official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced his resignation Monday, four months after a background investigation derailed his nomination to lead the agency. In a resignation letter obtained by NBC News, the official, Jeffrey Byard, said that he “had the privilege of leading the finest workforce during the most impactful natural disaster period in our nation’s...