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Today is the Last Day to Apply for Disaster Assistance
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Vermont residents affected by July’s severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides now have until October 31 to apply for FEMA assistance.
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It’s important for Hurricane Idalia survivors who applied for FEMA disaster assistance to keep in touch with FEMA to ensure the disaster assistance process stays on track. If you applied for assistance, you should call the FEMA Helpline, use the FEMA app, or visit a Disaster Recovery Center to update FEMA about changes in your housing situation, phone number, contact information, insurance and banking information.
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FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) specialists are working in communities affected by Hurricane Idalia, helping people apply for federal assistance and referring them to additional resources for their recovery.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $1.6 million to the State of Maine to reimburse Maine Medical Center in Portland for various costs incurred responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The State of Georgia and FEMA have opened a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) in Brooks County to serve Hurricane Idalia survivors from Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Glynn and Lowndes counties.
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Don’t miss this opportunity to get the help you need to recover from severe storms and flooding! FEMA may provide direct and financial disaster assistance to U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals and qualified non-citizens.
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The Commonwealth of Kentucky, The Electric Plant Board of Mayfield and FEMA have repaired or replaced the Mayfield & Water Electrical Systems’ damaged or destroyed poles and transformers struck during the Dec. 10-11, 2021, tornadoes.
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The deadline for authorities in the 19 counties included in the Presidential Major Disaster Declaration to request funds from FEMA’s Public Assistance (PA) Program is October 15, 2023. PA provides funds to assist territories, tribal, local and state governments and eligible Private Nonprofits (PNP), including houses of worship, in recovering from infrastructure damage due to emergencies or major disasters declared by the President. To be eligible, the PNP must operate a facility open to the public that provides a critical service – educational, utility, emergency or medical -- or an essential government service. This grant program does not provide assistance to individual households or private businesses.
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As of 11: 20 a.m. (ET) today, Typhoon Bolaven was 75 miles northwest of Tinian and Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph. The storm is moving at 12 mph away from the islands. Bolaven will rapidly intensify later today and tomorrow into a Category 4 typhoon as it turns into the open ocean. 
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