Mayor Muriel Bowser had requested the deployment of troops to respond to the arrival of migrants from Texas and Arizona.

The new security funding comes after a year of hateful, often racist attacks on the city’s faith-based organizations.

“We felt that given that the amount of things we’re going to see over the next week, it would be good if we fully tested it,” says the director of D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.

The National Weather Service puts the local heat index at 96 degrees as of about 3 p.m., enough to trigger a heat emergency.

This afternoon, the D.C. Council convened a hearing about emergency preparedness. That got us to wondering — what are the specific situations that would spark the kind of response which the city is trying to better prepare itself for?

A D.C. Council committee voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve Millicent Williams, Mayor Adrian Fenty’s nominee to replace Darrell Darnell at the head of the city’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, Nikita Stewart reports in the Washington Post. Williams, who still needs to be approved by the entire council, had been thought to be underqualified for the job, but council members were apparently “swayed by Williams’s enthusiasm and the overwhelming support she drew at…

The District of Columbia Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA) has launched a redesigned web site today in the hopes that it will help D.C. residents better prepare for emergencies. The site, called 72hours.dc.gov, lists emergency resource information by topic, much like the previous Emergency Information Center web site, and offers four relatively simple steps the city hopes each of us will take now, before an actual emergency happens. The steps are 1) Get…