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Use Disaster Assistance Checks Wisely (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 09:00:06
| Oklahoma City, O.K. -- With sizeable disaster assistance checks being distributed to those who qualify for Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management (OEM) grant programs, officials are urging recipients to handle the money with caution and confine spending to disaster-related losses. |
Floridians Approved For More Than $300 Million In Assistance For Wilma Recovery (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:06
| ORLANDO, Fla. -- Three months after Hurricane Wilma made landfall, $303,211,790 has been approved for Florida residents who suffered damages or losses from the disaster, according to officials from the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Florida State Emergency Response Team (SERT). |
Disaster Assistance Outreach Unit Comes to Guntersville (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:06
| MONTGOMERY , Ala. -- A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Disaster Assistance Outreach unit will visit Guntersville on Friday, February 10 through Monday, February 13. The unit will be closed on Sunday, February 12. Hours on Friday are 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The hours on Saturday and Monday are 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. |
Local Workshops Help Make Homes More Hurricane Resistant (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:06
| BATON ROUGE, La. -- Louisiana residents will benefit from workshops to be held in Abbeville, Crowley and Lafayette. These workshops are designed to protect homes against future hurricanes and are offered by the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in partnership with home improvement centers. Building techniques to make homes more hurricane resistant will be discussed. |
Post-Katrina Policy on Building Elevations (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:06
| In order to ensure that communities affected by major disasters are rebuilt stronger, safer and less vulnerable to damages from future flooding disasters, FEMA will require communities to adhere to the elevation requirements established by Advisory Base Flood Elevations (ABFEs) in order to be eligible for FEMA-funding for certain mitigation and recovery projects. Following catastrophic disasters, when the situation warrants, FEMA conducts new flood risk assessments to analyze the most current and accurate flood-risk data available. ABFEs are based on those assessments. |
Federal Funding for Rebuilding Efforts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:06
| In order to encourage communities to build stronger and safer, FEMA will require States and local communities to use the post-Katrina Advisory Base Flood Elevations for Federally funded mitigation and recovery projects. This includes projects funded under FEMA’s Public Assistance and mitigation grants programs. |
Louisiana Weekly Housing Update (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 12:00:06
| BATON ROUGE, La. - Since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita made landfall, FEMA has paid more than $522 million for hotel and motel rooms. More than $6 billion in financial and housing assistance has been provided to nearly 1.5 million victims. |
FEMA Housing Assistance Not Contingent On SBA Loan Application (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 03:00:07
| LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is reminding hurricane victims that have not already registered for FEMA assistance programs to call 1-800-621-FEMA (3362) – TTY 1-800-462-7585 – or go online at www.fema.gov. The agency’s call centers continue to operate 24 hours a day, seven days-a-week. |
Disaster Assistance Outreach Unit Comes to Bayou La Batre (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-07-2006 at 03:00:07
| MONTGOMERY, Ala -- A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Disaster Assistance Outreach unit will visit Bayou La Batre on Thursday, February 9 through Wednesday, February 15. The unit will be closed on Sunday, February 12. The hours are 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily. |
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