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Little more than two months before Hurricane Harvey slammed the Gulf Coast of Texas, Alberto CastaA eda let his home's flood insurance lapse. He had never filed a claim on the policy in 10 years and he needed the extra cash to expand his restaurant business.
The United States federal government has approved aid for the state of California to help battle a devastating blaze that has engulfed nearly 81,000 acres of land and has killed at least five people. Today, President Donald Trump "ordered federal assistance to supplement state, tribal and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from a wildfire beginning on July 23." Because of this, the Federal Emergency Management Agency "is authorized to identify, mobilize and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency."
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced today that federal emergency aid has been made available to the state of California to supplement state, tribal and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions in the area affected by a wildfire beginning on July 23, 2018, and continuing.
The Latest on wildfires burning in California : 11 a.m. President Donald Trump has issued an emergency declaration for California allowing counties affected by wildfires to receive federal assistance. A White House statement issued Saturday says the declaration allows the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide necessary equipment and resources.
Victims of the August 2016 flooding living in FEMA mobile homes won't have to move out in August, as previously scheduled. Instead, they can stay in the temporary housing units until Jan. 15. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency approved his request for an extension of the manufactured housing units available.
Sen. Ted Cruz met with leaders from throughout the Crossroads on Saturday afternoon to receive an update on Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts. Victoria County Judge Ben Zeller said Cruz reached out to him to set up a roundtable discussion in Victoria in order to get a better idea of what challenges residents continue to face almost a year after Hurricane Harvey struck the area.
In a long-awaited report on FEMA's response to 2017's hurricanes, the agency said it had underestimated how devastating a FEMA said its plans "did not anticipate the massive requirements to deliver electricity, telecommunications, and fuel sector utilities with air and sea movement" on Puerto Rico. Additionally, FEMA did not anticipate the "need to move critical pharmaceutical supplies off Puerto Rico to meet national demands."
Federal Emergency Management Agency mitigation specialists will be on hand beginning Thursday, July 12, to answer questions and offer home improvement tips along with proven methods to prevent or reduce damage from future disasters as well as offer tips and techniques to build hazard-resistant homes. Most of the information and the free publications provided are geared for do-it-yourself work and general contractors.
Crews repair roads and drainage on Lemans St. and Beaucaire St. in the Village de l'Est neighborhood in New Orleans East. The work is part of a $3.6 million project from a pool of $2 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency money, which the city received in 2016 for streets and subsurface infrastructure damaged during the Hurricane Katrina federal levee failures in 2005.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency encourages those who suffered individual losses from the mid-April floods to visit the Disaster Recovery Centers on Kauai and Oahu, which will be open on the Fourth of July. The Federal Emergency Management Agency encourages those who suffered individual losses from the mid-April floods to visit the Disaster Recovery Centers on Kauai and Oahu, which will be open on the Fourth of July.
BRWC Operations Manager Stephen Taylor and B-MPFD Chief Chris Jones show off a "check" that will be used to cover part of the cost of four diesel-powered standby generators to be placed at BRWC well sites. With them are BRWC board members Ralph Vincent and Tracy Coates; Kershaw County Director of Safety and Emergency Services Gene Faulkenberry; BRWC board members Kershaw Graham, Chover Baskins and Lynwood Horton; and BRWC staffers Heather Hall and Jania Anderson.
Hundreds of Puerto Rican hurricane evacuee families living in hotels across the U.S. can stay there for at least three more weeks, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Timothy Hillman in Massachusetts granted an extension of a restraining order temporarily blocking the evictions of the evacuees displaced by Hurricane Maria last September.
Nearly 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees living in hotels across the U.S. are awaiting a federal judge's decision on their next home. U.S. District Judge Timothy Hillman in Massachusetts heard plaintiff representatives and government attorneys Monday at a phone hearing.
What should you do during - or before - a wildfire? Here's a survival guide, compiled from FEMA , the California Department of Public Health and Ready.gov . What should you do during - or before - a wildfire? Here's a survival guide, compiled from FEMA , the California Department of Public Health and Ready.gov .
A court hearing is set for Monday after a federal judge issued an order temporarily blocking the eviction of hundreds of Puerto Ricans who fled the hurricane-ravaged island last year and have since been staying in hotels and motels across the nation. The last benefits of a federal aid program for Hurricane Maria evacuees from the island were to run out on Sunday morning, cutting off housing assistance for the group residing in U.S. mainland motels.
One day after a judge approved a temporary halt to evictions for Puerto Ricans living in Massachusetts and other states in the wake of Hurricane Maria, families faced confusion and frustration Sunday as they struggled to figure out their next move. Many hurricane evacuees were unaware that a federal judge in Springfield late Saturday night had granted a temporary injunction to stop the Federal Emergency Management Agency from ending its transitional assistance housing program for evacuees until midnight Tuesday.
A judge ordered federal emergency officials to extend vouchers for temporary hotel housing for nearly 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees, saying ending the program could cause irreparable harm. Saturday night's decision came shortly after civil rights group LatinoJustice PRLDEF filed a lawsuit seeking relief for the Puerto Ricans, whose federal housing assistance vouchers were set to expire at midnight Sunday, meaning the evacuees could have been evicted from the hotels.
A judge ordered federal emergency officials to extend vouchers for temporary hotel housing for nearly 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees, saying ending the program could cause irreparable harm.
In a story June 30 about Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees, The Associated Press reported erroneously that about 2,000 Puerto Ricans are using federal housing assistance vouchers to stay at Florida hotels.