President Donald Trump announced plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the 2025 hurricane season. That means states, counties and cities will have to develop their own plans for handling the aftermath of emergencies.

Jeremy Greenberg, the head of FEMA's National Response Coordination Center, submitted his resignation Wednesday and will depart the agency in two weeks.

President Donald Trump said the Federal Emergency Management Agency will begin to phase out after the current hurricane season. People gather at a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center at A.C. Reynolds High School in Asheville, North Carolina, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (Makiya Seminera | AP Photo) Makiya Seminera | AP Photo

President Trump says he wants to phase out FEMA and shift the burden to states, but many states don’t have the resources to manage disasters on their own, experts warn.

Local EMA directors said they aren’t exactly sure how handing emergency response over to the states will change things.

The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program was designed to help local communities prepare for disasters, thereby lowering recovery costs

The fire was still burning into the night and hundreds of people were still under evacuation orders in the gorge, not allowed to return to their homes.

When Denton County experienced deadly tornadoes and straight-line winds in 2024, the Federal Emergency Management Agency provided more than $306 million in assistance.