By Jack Phillips and Joseph Lord Dare County, a small coastal county nearly surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean in North Carolina, declared a state of emergency Sunday before the National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced that Category 3 Hurricane Erin had intensified back to a Category 4. In an 11 p.m. update on Sunday, the NHC […]
Tag: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979.