Disaster Relief

After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....

At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity....

Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World.

In When It All Burns, wildland firefighter and anthropologist Jordan Thomas recounts a single, brutal six-month fire season with the Los Padres Hotshots—the special forces of America’s firefighters.

From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared....

So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers....

A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption....

When the Iroquois Theater opened in Chicago on November 23, 1903, it was considered one of the grandest structures of its day, a monument to modern design and technology, as well as "absolutely fireproof." Instead it became the funeral pyre for hundreds of victims....

Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash....

As an emergency room doctor working on the rapid evaluation unit, Dr. Thomas Fisher has about three minutes to spend with the patients who come into the South Side of Chicago ward where he works before directing them to the next stage of their care....

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over....

Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet....

For nearly a century, Kellogg, Idaho, was home to America's richest silver mine, Sunshine Mine....

A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history....

The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal....

A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping true story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again.

A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm....

A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive and troubling mysteries of recent memory....

On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department...

A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study of the people and their teams who are trying to save the world.

Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call. In her moving memoir, she reveals what happens in the aftermath....

Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico....

It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country....

An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management....