The Office of Civilian Defense was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in May 1941. It was responsible for planning community health programs and medical care of civilians in the event ...

In a bid to further improve the country’s civil defense and disaster preparedness, the Office of Civil Defense is seeking to amend the law creating the National Disaster Risk Reduction and ...

THE first batch of the Philippine humanitarian contingent to the earthquake-hit Myanmar arrived on Tuesday afternoon at the capital city of Naypyidaw, the Office of Civil Defense said on Tuesday ...

Guam Office of Civil Defense Administrator Charles Esteves proceeds through a security check point prior to his appearance at an arraignment hearing, before Magistrate Judge Sean Brown, at the ...

Screenshot taken 2:15 p.m. on Sunday shows the official Twitter account of the Office of Civil Defense has been renamed with its profile photo reset to Twitter's default template.

The federal Office of Civil Defense was established in 1941 and spent its early years preparing Americans for an enemy air attack, conducting drills and appointing neighborhood air raid wardens.

The Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services is probing a “hacking/IT incident” at Defense Health Headquarters. HHS disclosed initial details of the breach on its Office ...

MANILA, Philippines — Rescuers in the Philippines searched a lake and scoured isolated villages on Sunday to locate dozens of missing people as the death toll from Severe Tropical Storm Kristine ...

MANILA, Philippines – Ariel Nepomuceno, former Deputy Commissioner for the Enforcement Group of the Bureau of Customs, is the new administrator of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD).

MANILA, Philippines — In a bid to further improve the country’s civil defense and disaster preparedness, the Office of Civil ...