The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Region 9 Administrator authorized the use of federal funds on September 10 at 9:18 p.m. PDT and on September 11 at 12:18 a.m. EDT to assist the state of California in combating the Bridge Fire, which is burning in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — The Disaster Recovery Center in Dickinson County will close permanently on Saturday, Sept. 14 at 6 p.m.
FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance is available to the state of Louisiana to supplement response efforts due to emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Francine beginning Sept. 10, 2024, and continuing.
Texans who sustained losses from Hurricane Beryl have one month remaining to apply for federal assistance. The deadline is October 10, 2024.
Disaster Recovery Centers in Christian, Greenup, Hopkins, Todd and Simpson Counties will end operations this week.
As Tropical Storm Francine rapidly strengthens and moves toward Louisiana, FEMA is urging people across the state and the Gulf Coast to prepare now for potentially life-threatening impacts. Francine’s projected path poses a serious threat to Louisiana and upper Texas coastline, expecting to make landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday.
After you apply for federal disaster assistance, it is important that FEMA be able to contact you. FEMA may need to call some New Mexicans in Lincoln, Otero, Rio Arriba, and San Juan counties, and the Mescalero Apache Reservation to continue processing their application for assistance after South Fork and Salt Fires and flooding.
FEMA has opened Disaster Recovery Centers in Alachua and Jefferson counties to provide one-on-one help to Floridians affected by Hurricane Debby.
Missourians in 10 counties impacted by the severe weather and flooding from May 19 – May 27 have until Sept. 23, to apply with FEMA for assistance to help support their disaster recovery. It’s free, and as easy as a 20-minute phone call or a click online.
With more than $2 million in federal disaster assistance funds approved by FEMA to help homeowners and renters in 15 Kentucky counties affected by the May 21-27 severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes, landslides and mudslides, the agency wants to remind survivors that these funds are to be used only for certain disaster-related expenses.