The Oregon Department of Emergency Management (OEM) has expanded statewide flood response capabilities with the distribution ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Counties and cities across the Tampa Bay area have started opening up sandbag locations ahead of Hurricane Idalia’s arrival. In some spots, you might still have to fill your own bags.

COMING UP TIME WHEN I SEE. OKAY, CAM, THANK YOU TRACKING PREPARING AND BEING READY. TAKE ACTION AS IDALIA MOVES NORTH TOWARDS FLORIDA. WHILE THE MODELS TEND TO TAKE THE STORM INTO THE BIG BEND REGION, ...

When the Mississippi River flooded in 1993, a Wauconda businesswoman came up with the idea of a machine that could replace the backbreaking work of filling sandbags by hand. The first contraptions ...

One Brown County machine is working overtime heading into spring, in an effort to provide neighbors with a tool to keep the water at bay. “I think we've made a little over 10,000 [sandbags] now, and ...

HARDY, Ark. (KY3) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is helping communities in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas prepare for devastating flooding. The Corps and volunteers filled sandbags using ...

THE council's new sandbagging machine can fill a 15kg sandbag in six to eight seconds, producing up to 500 in an hour. Fraser Coast Regional Council Mayor Gerard O'Connell said the machine had been at ...

When it comes to disaster response, one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' top priorities is supporting immediate life-saving and public safety efforts in partnership with FEMA, state and local ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Sandbag sites will be open across the Tampa Bay area ahead of impacts from Tropical Storm Idalia. It's important to remember that sandbags will help your home and property from ...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s largest city is back in the sandbag-filling business with a new crop of volunteers after a five-year break from warding off major Red River floods. Fargo officials ...