Friday, January 4, 2013
It may be hard to say that final goodbye to the holidays, but a dry tree can be a fire hazard.
The Prince George's County Fire Department is advising residents to keep their indoor Christmas trees up for a maximum of two weeks due to the risk of fire. "Dry trees can ignite easily," Fire/EMS Chief Spokesman Mark Brady warned on Twitter this week. The Federal Emergency Management Agency also advises that live trees should not be left up for longer than two weeks, as they account for hundreds of fires annually. Shorts in electrical lights or open flames from candles, lighters, and matches are the most common causes of tree fires, according to FEMA. Well-watered trees are not a significant problem, the agency says, but dry and neglected trees pose a higher risk. FEMA recommends not placing a tree close to a heat source and keeping the…
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Sen. Ben Cardin announced a presidential declaration that gives Maryland federal aid and Gov. Martin O’Malley urged Maryland citizens to stay off the roads Monday at a press conference at MEMA.
President Barack Obama signed a pre-landfall state of emergency declaration for Maryland. The declaration provides federal resources from FEMA and Health and Human Services to state aid, Sen. Ben Cardin announced at a press conference at Maryland Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Reisterstown Sunday night. “Federal partners are here at your request,” he said. Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are working alongside state agencies at MEMA’s emergency operations center, which is fully staffed in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. Federal employees from Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, Indiana and Kansas have come to Maryland’s aid, Cardin said. Military …
National Hurricane Center forecasters caution the public to not underestimate Hurricane Sandy based on its storm category or projections on where it will come ashore.
Federal emergency management and weather officials said Sunday that the time for preparing for Hurricane Sandy is rapidly coming to an end. "The time for preparing and talking is about over," said Craig Fugate, administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. People need to be acting about now." Hurricane Sandy is expected to affect as many as 50 million people as it makes its westward turn toward the East Coast. While the most recent maps show the center of the storm tracking toward New Jersey, forecasters are hesitant to pinpoint a specific area for landfall. Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center, said forecasters are still looking for the storm to come ashore somewhere between the Delmarva coastline and Rhode …
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Federal officials say the slow moving storm will cause problems over large part of the East Coast through the middle of the week.
Federal officials warn Maryland residents to prepare for heavy winds, inland and coastal flooding and power outages from Hurricane Sandy. The storm, which is expected to come ashore somewhere along the East Coast late Sunday into early Monday, is anticipated to affect 50-60 million people along the East Coast, from the Carolinas to New England and extending west into West Virgina and the Ohio Valley. Flooding, for now, is the main focus of forecasters and federal disaster response agencies, according to Louis Uccellini, director the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center For Environmental Prediction. Uccellini said the "extent of heavy rainfall has a danger of flooding for Pennsylvania and Maryland and into northern …
Friday, August 26, 2011
Officials urged inland residents to prepare for winds, flooding and power outages.
During a Friday morning press conference hosted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency officials urged those in Hurricane Irene’s projected path to quickly get ready for the storm—even Marylanders who live away from the coast. “We are telling people inland to be prepared,” said Bill Reed of the National Hurricane Center. As of 9 a.m. Friday, the National Weather Service said that Hurricane Irene was 610 miles south of Washington, D.C., headed for the outer banks, and was projected to pass through central Maryland with tropical storm-like conditions Saturday afternoon into Sunday morning. The Maryland Emergency Management Agency said via Twitter that storm winds will blast Maryland Saturday afternoon for at least 18 hours. “The window …
Friday, October 8, 2010
Federal government employees try to stay fit with a walk through University Park
University Park residents may have been surprised to see random people walking through town Thursday afternoon, but there's no need to worry. Employees from FEMA, the Centers for Disease Control and Treasury Financial Management Services (FMS) at University Town Center were walking or running in an effort to stay fit and increase health awareness. Deborah King, heath and wellness coordinator for FMS, said the walk run has happened twice a year for the last 10 to 15 years. "We get close to 200 employees to participate in the fall," Kind said, "and more in May when we have vendors for our health fair." She said this is a part of an executive order from the federal government to promote health and wellness among its employees. "But we were …
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