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Unwavering Preparation, Swift Response Key to Hurricane Food Relief

May 07, 2018 Steve Hortin, Director, Office of Emergency Management, Food and Nutrition Service

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria – each Category 4 – all made landfall in less than a month between August and September 2017. It will be hard to ever forget these historic disasters and the toll they took on millions of American families. In recognition of the federal government’s Hurricane...

Food and Nutrition Disaster

Flooding: A Checklist for Small and Very Small Meat, Poultry and Egg Inspection Processing Plants

September 21, 2016 Ben Dinsmore, Senior Emergency Response Specialist, Office of Data Integration and Food Protection, Emergency Coordination Staff, USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service

Rivers rise. The ground is saturated. Levees fail. Floods happen, and they happen beside rivers, along the coasts, in deserts and in city streets. Flooding might be a fact of nature but that does not mean you have to lose your business and possessions to flood waters. It is never too early to...

Health and Safety

Be a Fire Wise know it all

September 19, 2016 Robert Hudson Westover, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

You’ve heard this from us during previous fire seasons, and you’ll continue to hear it from us every fire season: You can never be Fire Wise enough. And, with this being National Preparedness Month, you’re going to hear it a lot. The theme this year for National Preparedness Month is “Don’t Wait...

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