Source: Joseph Morton, ROLL CALL, 10/5/21


With climate change fueling ever more weather-related disasters, the country needs to move away from basing its emergency preparedness plans on historical precedent and seek new models for future threats, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell told lawmakers Tuesday. “The number of hurricanes, the number of wildfires, the number of severe weather events continues to increase,” Criswell said. “They’ve become more severe, more intense. They're intensifying more rapidly. And that's only going to continue to get worse.”

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