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Rebuilding Lives, Revitalizing Communities - Five Years after Katrina and Rita

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August 29, 2010

Statement from FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate on the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
WASHINGTON -- Today the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Craig Fugate, issued the following statement of the five year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. "Five years ago today, Hurricane Katrina devastated communities all across the Gulf Coast. Like all Americans today, my thoughts and prayers are with those who lost their lives, and those whose lives were changed by this tragic storm.


August 27, 2010

FEMA Administrator Fugate And Local Officials Tour Mississippi Recovery Projects As 5th Anniversary Of Hurricane Katrina Approaches
BILOXI, Miss. -- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate today met with state and local officials in Mississippi and toured two recently completed recovery projects, the Bay St. Louis Firehouse and the Biloxi Lighthouse. The firehouse was built in part using $1.8 million in FEMA funds and is the first firehouse built in Bay St. Louis in more than 100 years. The lighthouse, which was built in 1848 and is on the National Register of Historic Places, was restored and reopened to the public in March of this year. FEMA contributed approximately $280,000 to the project.


August 26, 2010

FEMA Administrator Fugate And Local Officials Tour Louisiana Recovery Projects As 5th Anniversary Of Hurricane Katrina Approaches
NEW ORLEANS, La. -- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate today met with state and local officials in Louisiana to discuss the region's ongoing recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Fugate joined Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan for a field hearing before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery on the status of the recovery, and then toured New Orleans with FEMA Regional Administrator Tony Russell to see some of the progress on the ground. Fugate visited St. Bernard Parish on Wednesday and is scheduled to visit Mississippi on Friday. FEMA Deputy Administrator Rich and other Administration officials are also scheduled to visit the region this week to mark the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Sunday, August 29.

 


 

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