FEMA has obligated an initial $3,116,229 in federal funding to Benton County, Oregon, in support of a COVID-19 vaccination center in Corvallis.
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A FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) team has deployed to Michigan to assist the state’s efforts in expanding COVID-19 vaccination capacity across the state. The DSA team—consisting of ten FEMA staff with expertise in community outreach—will support state health strike teams across the state starting this week.
FEMA Region 3 has deployed an Incident Management Assistance Team – Advance (IMAT-A) team to support vaccine efforts in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Acting FEMA Administrator Bob Fenton is attending the opening of the first Community Vaccination Center in California today—at California State University in Los Angeles.
FEMA, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Health and Human Services (HHS), Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA), Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH), and Dover International Speedway (DIS) have partnered to open a COVID-19 vaccination drive-thru site for six days beginning Saturday, February 20, 2021.
On Feb. 22 and 24, representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will host two sessions of a Virtual Coastal Flood Map Open House for the Lake Michigan shoreline communities in Brown County, Wisconsin. The open house will give residents the chance to review preliminary versions of a recently completed Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report and its accompanying preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM).
The deadline for Mississippi residents with uninsured losses from Hurricane Zeta to register with FEMA for disaster financial assistance is March 1, 2021.
FEMA granted Guam $1.1 million to open a vaccination site to support the distribution and administration of vaccines territory-wide.
FEMA granted American Samoa $3.4 million to open two vaccination sites to support the distribution and administration of vaccines territory-wide.
FEMA announced federal emergency aid has been made available to the state of Texas to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in areas affected by a severe winter storm beginning on Feb. 11, 2021 and continuing.