Today, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell and NAACP President Derrick Johnson signed an agreement outlining ways in which the two organizations will work together to help people before, during and after disasters.
Press Releases
FEMA Region 3 is urging Virginia, Delaware and Maryland residents in the path of Potential Tropical Cyclone 16 to remain vigilant and listen to local officials as this storm develops in the Atlantic Ocean.
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced today that President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. made additional disaster assistance available to the Hoopa Valley Tribe to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe winter storms and mudslides from Feb. 14 – March 5, 2023.
Six months since the major disaster declaration for the March 24-25 severe storms and tornadoes in Mississippi, $32.7 million and counting in federal support has been approved by FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for homeowners, renters and businesses. FEMA remains in the affected communities to support recovery, working with local and state officials to provide temporary housing and Public Assistance grants.
FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Missouri to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes and flooding July 29 – August 14, 2023.
Around 86 percent of the projects that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has obligated to address damage by Hurricane María have resources to reinforce their infrastructure, among other hazard mitigation measures that will prepare these facilities for future weather events.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Typhoon Mawar debris mission continues to move forward as debris cleanup from residential rights of way was completed in the villages of Tamuning, Talo’fo’fo and Inalahan this week.
The incident period for the Vermont severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides has been amended.
The State of Georgia and FEMA have opened aDisaster Recovery Center (DRC) in Glynn County to serve Hurricane Idalia survivors from Cook, Glynn and Lowndes counties.
As part of his commitment to the people of East Palestine, OH, and other affected communities, President Biden yesterday issued an Executive Order to ensure that Norfolk Southern continues to be held accountable and to address any of the long-term effects caused by the train derailment.