A cluster of brush fires believed ignited by a malfunctioning truck threatened suburban homes and swept past a high school before aircraft and firefighters quashed its spread Tuesday. Four civilians suffered minor injuries from smoke inhalation and a firefighter suffered …
The Association of British Insurers is increasingly concerned that “rising global temperatures will put the heat on insurance as flood costs rise.” This would in turn “lead to more expensive and harder to obtain property insurance in the UK and …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has published draft flood risk maps of communities in Caldwell County, Texas. The maps will help county officials and local residents identify known flood risks and will be used for insurance and development decisions. …
“Heavy and prolonged rainfall across much of Britain on Sunday November 1st has triggered flooding across north-eastern Scotland and Wales, resulting in evacuations and property damage,” a bulletin from Risk Management Solutions reports. A total of 39mm [over 1.5 inches] …
Typhoon Mirinae has battered the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, still reeling from recent flooding, killing at least 14 people [IJ Note — later reports have increased the death toll to 24] and sending residents of one town clambering onto …
San Diego Gas & Electric and Cox Communications have agreed to pay $17 million to settle claims by state investigators that poor maintenance led to three huge wildfires in 2007. The settlement, announced Friday, comes more than a year after …
According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, a major tropical cyclone is threatening the northern Philippines for the fourth time in the past month. AIR rported that Typhoon Mirinae is expected to make landfall on the major island of …
Many Cobb County homeowners say they’d like the county to buy their flood-damaged homes, but a county official says it’s impossible to accommodate all of them. About 300 people gathered at a recreation center near Powder Springs Monday night to …
Flood-displaced Iowa residents staying in mobile homes provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be charged rent after November, a FEMA spokeswoman said. Crystal Payton, a FEMA spokeswoman in Des Moines, says that such rental charges are standard …
A Hurricane Ike-damaged dike in Texas City, Texas, could reopen next fall after repairs are completed. Mayor Matt Doyle says none of the funds earmarked for the dike’s repair will go to rebuilding the shrimp boat docks or bait camps. …
