Media Advisory - Free Lessons on How to Reduce Future Risk Through Mitigation

Release Date:
February 12, 2021

BATON ROUGE, La. – FEMA’s Community Education and Outreach offers free webinars to help those affected by the recent hurricanes with their recovery.

The next two webinars will be held Feb. 16 and 18 at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. The topics are:

  • Elevating Your Home, Including Mobile Homes
    • Specialists will talk about the basic requirements of elevating a house or mobile home and discuss what buildings may be elevated. (Feb. 16)
  • Basic Mitigation for Volunteers
    • Specialists will review mitigation techniques like muck-outs, demolition and repair with volunteer agencies and explain how using mitigation techniques when repairing or rebuilding can strengthen homes against future disasters. (Feb. 18)

The sessions will be recorded and will be available at the Louisiana Mitigation Web Link: https://fema.connectsolutions.com/lamit if you are unable to attend.

Adobe Connect Platform is used for these sessions. To make sure you can participate, click on the following link: https://fema.connectsolutions.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm.

Visit Connect Event Catalog (connectsolutions.com) to sign up for the webinars.

If you have any questions, please call 833-FEMA-4-US or 833-336-2487.

Or visit the FEMA Mitigation web page at https://fema.connectsolutions.com/lamit/ or https://fema.connectsolutions.com/la-es-mit/ for Spanish.

For the latest information on Hurricane Laura, visit Louisiana Hurricane Laura (DR-4559-LA). For Hurricane Delta, visit Louisiana Hurricane Delta (DR-4570-LA). For the latest information on Hurricane Zeta, visit Louisiana Hurricane Zeta (DR-4577-LA) or follow the FEMA Region 6 Twitter account at twitter.com/FEMARegion6.

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