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A federal judge has partially sided with a company suing the Minot Public School District for $1.9 million in unpaid services following the 2011 Souris River flood. The Minot Daily News reports that Storm Team Robbins, LLC was hired under the name ServPro of the Seacoast by the district to clean flood damaged schools.
The State of Texas and FEMA has opened a Disaster Recovery Centers in Southeast Texas to offer in-person support to individuals and businesses in 39 counties included in the Texas federal disaster declaration for Hurricane Harvey and the subsequent floods. Recovery specialists from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Small Business Administration , the State and other agencies will be at the center to talk about assistance and to help anyone who needs guidance in filing an application.
As Floridians begin the cleanup process after Hurricane Irma, the Federal Emergency Management Agency urges everyone to know the best way to remove debris from their property. Take care when cleaning up.
Chatham County is one of three Georgia counties to be named in a major disaster declaration by President Donald Trump following Hurricane Irma, according to WJCL. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced in a press release that Chatham County, in addition to Camden and Glynn counties in Georgia, are covered by the president's order, reports WJCL.
The federal government auctioned off disaster-response trailers at fire-sale prices just before Harvey devastated southeast Texas, reducing an already diminished supply of mobile homes ahead of what could become the nation's largest-ever housing mission. More than 100 2017-model Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers were sold over the two days before the Category 4 hurricane landed in the Gulf Coast, an analysis of government data by The Associated Press found.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump observed a moment of silence at the White House, to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The moment of silence was held at 8:46 a.m, the exact time that American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan.
Some evacuees have been staying at the Nacogdoches Exposition Center for two weeks. The goal is to close the shelter by Tuesday, and some residents' homes remain damaged by flood waters.
While discussion of climate change remains highly polarized, another topic is getting not just traction, but meaningful action across the political spectrum: resilience planning. Vice President Mike Pence answers a reporter's question on Sept.
Medical staff at the Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida described the scene as patients from a nearby nursing home arrived in the early morning hours after eight patients died days after Hurricane Irma. Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long says the government response to Hurricane Irma has shifted from saving lives to one of beginning the long recovery process.
Hurricane Irma blazed a path of destruction through the Caribbean, the Florida Keys, and up through Florida. As a result, the IRS is postponing various tax filing and payment deadlines that occurred starting on September 4, 2017 in Florida and September 5, 2017 in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Some people are still evacuated from their homes due to Hurricane Irma and are now relying on FEMA to foot the bill for hotel stays. Only three hotels in Manatee and Sarasota counties are participating in the program, and with thousands of people still displaced from the storm, the rush is on to snag one of the open rooms.
The U.S. Justice Department has received more than 400 disaster fraud complaints involving relief aid after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and expects a spike in fraud complaints in the coming months, department officials said on Thursday. The majority of fraud efforts target the federal government itself as people try to defraud Federal Emergency Management Agency , which administers disaster relief, said Corey Amundson, acting director of the department's National Center for Disaster Fraud.
Mr. Trump, joined by First Lady Melania Trump, will be visiting the Fort Meyers and Naples area where he is expected to be briefed on recovery efforts in the region. Am leaving now for Florida to see our GREAT first responders and to thank the U.S. Coast Guard, FEMA etc.
The president is travelling to the hurricane-stricken state on Thursday to meet with those affected by the storm and learn more about relief efforts. I will be traveling to Florida tomorrow to meet with our great Coast Guard, FEMA and many of the brave first responders & others.
President Donald Trump will hear directly from people affected by Irma's fury as he makes his third visit in less than three weeks to the storm-wracked South. Trump, joined by Vice-President Mike Pence, was scheduled to visit Naples and Fort Myers on Florida's southwestern coast Thursday to meet with those affected by the hurricane and learn more about relief efforts.
President Donald Trump and black Democratic lawmakers don't agree on much, but they do agree that FEMA needs to fund houses of worship that assist hurricane victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. As the waters slowly recede from Houston and parts of Florida from the two deadly storms, the president and some members of the Congressional Black Caucus are aggressively diving into the murky waters of separation of church and state issues.
Daniel Craig, the nominee to be second-in-command at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Wednesday he has withdrawn his name from consideration for the job. Craig told CNN he is no longer pursuing the job because "FEMA doesn't need the sidetrack right now" -- referencing an NBC News report that investigators had probed the work and travel records he submitted while working as an official in the George W. Bush administration.
FEMA estimates that Hurricane Irma destroyed about one quarter of the homes in the Florida Keys and damaged most of the others. Keys residents who stayed behind during the storm are now struggling to pick up the pieces.
Parts of Florida inched back toward normal with workers restoring power, clearing roads and replenishing gas supplies, even as teams scoured the state's southernmost islands and authorities warned of mass devastation. Residents drifted back from shelters and far-away havens Tuesday to see Hurricane Irma's scattershot destruction.
Florida Rep. Carlos Curbelo said Tuesday that while it is not yet safe to return to the Florida Keys region after Hurricane Irma, "the structural damage was not what I anticipated." "A lot of the structures are looking a lot better than I had expected," the second-term Republican, 37, whose district includes the Keys, told Wolf Blitzer on CNN.