Establish defensible spaces around shelters. After a series of fires in camps in 2018, the shelter cluster in Palestine promoted the clearing of dry vegetation, waste, and debris from shelter areas.

Marin County supervisors voted Tuesday to renew a shelter crisis ... Jones said relaxing the building code is just the first step in addressing Marin’s need for emergency housing.

For many people, that is a basement or a storm shelter ... Ohio Building Code does not require developers to include designated storm shelters in residential complexes. Franklin County Emergency ...

Aid groups in the worst-hit areas of Myanmar said there was an urgent need for shelter, food and water after an earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, but said the country's civil war could ...