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HOUSTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. emergency management officials said Saturday they are planning to move large electrical generators into areas of Texas ravaged by Hurricane Ike.

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Relief workers are providing protection and sustenance in areas affected by Hurricane Gustav along the U.S. Gulf Coast, a federal official said Wednesday.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. officials, benefiting from lessons of Hurricane Katrina, said the evacuation of 1.9 million Louisianans ahead of Hurricane Gustav went smoothly.

NEW ORLEANS, June 18 (UPI) -- Millions of dollars in diverted hurricane relief supplies are finally going to be sent back to Louisiana for distribution.

MILWAUKEE, June 15 (UPI) -- President George Bush has declared five Wisconsin counties struck by flooding federal disaster areas, the White House announced.

WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) -- Foreign policy, and in particular relations with so-called rogue states like Iran and Syria, has taken center stage in the presidential election campaign this week -- with the row over President Bush's comments in Israel about appeasement. What other security-type stories are we going to see on the news agenda over the next seven days?

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 12 (UPI) -- Federal assistance representatives will see damage first-hand in a tour of the U.S. states ripped by tornadoes that killed at least 22 people, officials said.

WASHINGTON, April 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency Friday announced regulations limiting the amount of formaldehyde allowed in mobile homes for disaster victims.

MIAMI, Alaska, April 2 (UPI) -- Director R. David Paulison of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told reporters in Florida that he would resign before a change in U.S. administrations.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A second Federal Emergency Management Agency media official has lost his job in the dust-up over a staged news conference during California's recent wildfires.