You do not want to get in the way of recovery efforts or be a burden on the infrastructure, but some communities that have been hit hard by natural disasters, like Lahaina in Maui, depend on tourism.

Irene Bautista tried to take matters into her own hands by spraying water on a brush fire that appeared outside of her Pacific Palisades home on Jan. 7. But when her garden hose ran dry and smoke ...

One of nature's most disliked creatures may very well unlock a breakthrough in disaster response. A multidisciplinary Purdue ...