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Ken Pagurek, a longtime Philadelphia firefighter who served as chief of FEMA’s search and rescue branch for the past year, ...
Ken Pagurek, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Urban Search and Rescue chief, has resigned amid criticism over the ...
Ken Pagurek had told colleagues the Trump administration was causing ‘chaos’ inside FEMA and creating dangerous delays in disaster response.
Urban Search and Rescue Chief Ken Pagurek quit over a new policy that led to delays in FEMA's response to the flooding in ...
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s carefully crafted image as a tough woman has taken a hit. In the ...
The head of FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue branch, Ken Pagurek, resigned on Monday, multiple sources confirmed to ABC News.
Congress should be demanding accountability from FEMA. Instead they're going on vacation. A short hearing by the House ...
The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.
The decision was likely in part due to the agency's delayed response to the flooding disaster in Central Texas. Senior FEMA ...
Ken Pagurek told colleagues the delay was the tipping point after months of frustration with the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency.
Noem had severely botched FEMA’s Texas response by failing to renew contracts with companies staffing FEMA call centers, ...
FEMA’s search and rescue chief resigned because of ICE Barbie Kristi Noem’s sluggish response to the Texas flooding disaster, ...