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Citing "deficiencies" in federal assistance to Puerto Rican evacuees, a judge ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to extend the temporary hotel voucher program. Hundreds of displaced families in Florida, and nearly 1,700 across the country, could benefit from the temporary court order.
Saturday marks the last day of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's temporary housing program for nearly 1,800 Puerto Rican survivors of Hurricane Maria. The emergency shelter program currently provides 1,744 families whose homes were severely damaged in the September 2017 storm with hotels and motels free-of-charge on the island, in the District of Columbia and 28 states.
Nearly 1,800 Puerto Ricans who survived Hurricane Maria will be forced to move out Sunday from hotels on the island and the US mainland, where they've lived rent-free on assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "After 10 months of providing emergency shelter through Transitional Sheltering Assistance , FEMA is ending the program on June 30 for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria survivors," the agency said in a statement.
Scott Cory, owner of the Ventura Ranch Kampgrounds of America Holiday in Santa Paula, Calif., decided to take matters into his own hands after waiting months to clean up the rubble that was left behind by the Thomas Fire last December. This was after losing more than 20 structures during the fire, one that would go on to be the largest in California history, burning Cory told Woodall's Campground Management, sister publication to RVBUSINESS, on Thursday that while it cost quite a bit to perform the clean up on his own, waiting to see if the Federal Emergency Management Agency was going to be able to help was taking too long.
A ghostly radar image of asteroid 2014 JO25 during a pass by Earth in 2017 at a distance of just 1.5 million miles. Expanding the search for such near-Earth objects, improving emergency planning and exploring countermeasures for potential impacts are the focus of a new 10-year plan by the White House, NASA and FEMA.
Hurricane Maria ripped away part of the steel roof from Carmen Lidia Torres Mercado's home in the Puerto Rican capital. Nine months later, she is still relying on a blue plastic tarp to protect her home, even with a new storm season already two weeks old.
OAKLAND, Calif. - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency has authorized the use of federal funds to assist the State of Nevada to combat the Upper Colony Fire On June 17, 2018, the State of Nevada submitted a request for a Fire Management Assistance Declaration for the Upper Colony Fire.
FEMA uses direct lease as a way to secure temporary lodging for residents whose homes were destroyed or severely damaged by last year's hurricanes. On St. Croix and St. Thomas, FEMA has a sufficient inventory of direct rentals to accommodate displaced hurricane survivors-but the situation is different on St. John where there is a shortage of rental units.
FILE PHOTO: Representatives from FEMA speak with a resident of the Staten Island borough neighborhood of New Dorp Beach about registering with the agency for financial assistance to help recover from the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy in New York, NY, U.S., November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo As Hurricane Irma bore down on Florida last September, the top U.S. disaster-response official ordered all hands on deck.
An analysis of federal food aid delivered in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria reveals that much of the food exceeded federal dietary guideline limits for sugar and sodium. Credit: Uriyoan Colon-Ramos After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September of 2017, the Federal Emergency Management Agency began distributing emergency food.
The Community Emergency Response Team, or CERT, program isn't a new initiative, but the 19 volunteers that completed their training last week at the Prospect firehouse broke new ground locally. The volunteers - seven from Beacon Falls and 12 from Prospect - represented the first step in regionalizing the CERT program in Beacon Falls and Prospect, and possibly other surrounding towns.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump spent a meeting at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters discussing a number of varying subjects - except the main subject he was there to discuss: hurricane season preparedness Details about what Trump discussed instead at the meeting were recorded in an audio obtained by The Washington Post , which included this paragraph that summarized the details: But President Trump had a lot else on his mind, turning the closed-door discussion into soliloquies on his prowess in negotiating airplane deals, his popularity, the effectiveness of his political endorsements, the Republican Party's fortunes, the vagaries of Defense Department purchasing guidelines, his dislike of magnetized launch equipment on aircraft carriers, his unending love of coal and his breezy optimism about his planned Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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The Trump administration's response to Hurricane Maria is facing a fresh round of criticism following the May 29 publication of a Harvard study that says the death toll in Puerto Rico might be as many as 70 times higher than the official tally. The number is an estimate of the total additional deaths in Puerto Rico in the months after Maria made landfall on Sept.
President Donald Trump looks toward first lady Melania Trump at a briefing on this year's hurricane season at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters, Wednesday, June 6, 2018, in Washington. President Donald Trump looks toward first lady Melania Trump at a briefing on this year's hurricane season at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters, Wednesday, June 6, 2018, in Washington.
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus called for an independent commission to look into the death tolls in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Hispanic lawmakers call for commission to study reported under counting of death toll in Puerto Rico Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus called for an independent commission to look into the death tolls in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
The frustration over the pace of Hurricane Matthew disaster relief that spilled over at the Wayne County commissioners May 15 meeting has reached state N.C. Emergency Management Director Mike Sprayberry. "I can tell you, I understand what I am going to be walking into on June 14," he said.
Cocoa Beach 45-foot building-height ballot question to be discussed Thursday night In 2002, Cocoa Beach voters overwhelmingly reduced the city's 85-foot building height limit to 45 feet. Check out this story on floridatoday.com: https://on.flatoday.com/2xDEQSs Host Rob Landers brings you some of today's top stories include a case where Melbourne man allegedly dragged a dog behind his truck.
In Big Pine Key, one of the areas in the Florida Keys hardest hit by Hurricane Irma, wrecked homes still line the roads nearly nine months later. Some sport 'for sale' signs, a popular option on the working class island for those who can't afford to rebuild.