International Fire/EMS Safety and Health Week is June 16-22. It is a joint initiative of the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC). The goal for both organizations is to reduce the number of preventable injuries and deaths in the fire and emergency services.

Ten agencies and organizations have joined together to issue a call to action—a unified approach to sharing and reporting suspicious activity.

Join us June 27 for a Twitter chat on S&T's Rapid Recovery Transformer project. What's that? Read more to find out.

On June 4, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications held a hearing to discuss social media for emergency management. Read all about it.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) First Responders Group recently released the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA): New York City Demonstration Lessons Learned Report.

Every four years, we step away from the work we do together every day, to look at how things have changed over the past four years - this effort is called the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review.

This week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released the Digital Video Quality Handbook for the first responder community.

As the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season approaches on June 1, communities and public safety agencies across the country begin to prepare for possible storms throughout the summer and into the fall.

On June 26-27, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) First Responders Group (FRG) is holding a meeting to discuss Next Generation Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

The following photos were submitted by Battalion Chief Kirk Kushen of the Kern County Fire Department, whose team has been battling a string of wildfires in both in Kern and neighboring Ventura County. The entire state has been plagued by wildfire.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) First Responders Group is pleased to present the Capacity Building Webinar Series.