Natural Disasters News

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHF Rose Parade® Float Honors ‘Food for Health’ Wildfire and Hunger Relief Efforts...

ROSEMEAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Southern California Edison remains committed to meeting the needs of community members and delivering dedicated support to serve the high level of interest in its Wildfire Recovery Compensation Program. On-demand resources and one-on-one assistance are available in multiple languages to eligible individuals and businesses impacted by the Eaton Fire through Nov. 30, 2026 – including the final weeks of December 2025. When the program launched on Oct. 29, SCE com...

THERMAL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coulson Aviation USA has announced the launch of its Boeing 767 Very Large Airtanker (VLAT) program, marking a significant advancement in the evolution of aerial firefighting capability. The program is intended to provide a sustainable replacement for legacy VLAT platforms nearing the end of their operational service life. The recent grounding of the MD11 and DC10 fleets has highlighted a structural challenge for firefighting agencies worldwide. As older widebo...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U-Haul® is offering 30 days of free self-storage and U-Box® container use at 37 Company facilities across Oregon and southern Washington to aid residents affected by the flash floods and potential landslides. Several rivers have flooded from heavy rainfall in the region, creating conditions for residential water damage or evacuations. Public access to dry, secure self-storage units and portable storage containers are vital to communities during times of natural...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New Report Calls for Bold, Implementable Reforms to Strengthen Los Angeles’ Wildfire Recovery and Preparedness...

HAYWARD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HEN Technologies, a global leader in intelligent fire suppression, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $20 million Series A financing round, along with $2 million in venture debt. The funding will accelerate the deployment of Fluid-IQ, the company's predictive AI platform built on advanced fluid dynamics hardware. To date, the company has raised over $30 million. O’Neil Strategic Capital led the round with participation from NSFO, Tanas Capital and...

ROSEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--US Foods Holding Corp. (NYSE: USFD), one of America’s largest foodservice distributors, announced today that the Company and its associates donated nearly $12.5 million in cash, product and volunteer time to support hunger relief, culinary education and disaster relief efforts throughout 2025. The Company’s “Helping Communities Make It” program aims to harness the power of food to empower communities with nourishment and opportunity, which is of the utmost impor...

OCEANSIDE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--General Enterprise Ventures, Inc. (“CitroTech”) (NYSE American: CITR) — developer of a pioneering family of fire protection and prevention products for manufactured wood and lumber — today announced a commercial partnership with a leading national distributor to produce Class A fire-rated lumber using CitroTech’s factory-applied, non-pressure impregnated chemistry. The partnership, which officially commenced December 1, 2025, brings three of the lumber compan...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Torrential rainfall over the past week has caused many of Washington State’s rivers to overflow, flooding scores of homes and triggering power outages and mudslides across the state. Skagit County and Snohomish County, both located north of Seattle, have been hit especially hard. In Skagit County, 22,810 homes—or 28.6%—face high flood risk, according to a new report from Redfin, the real estate brokerage powered by Rocket. That’s the fourth-highest number among the 39...

MELBOURNE, Australia & LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Angeleno Group, the pioneering Los Angeles-based investment firm providing venture capital and growth equity to clean energy and climate solutions companies, and Energy Impact Partners LP (EIP), a global technology investor specialized in the energy transition, announced today a AUD $50 million commitment to IND Technology, the leading global provider of Early Fault Detection (EFD™) systems to prevent power outages and wildfires ca...