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The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans information sessions Dec. 15 and 16 on changes in flood insurance and building requirements that may result from changes next year to the accreditation status of levees that protect the Mississippi River floodplain in Madison, St. Clair and Monroe counties.
Worcester Polytechnic Instiitute reports it has landed $1 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to continue developing a system to track firefighters’ locations, monitor their vital signs and measure the temperature at the scene of a fire.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has presented preliminary flood risk maps to communities in Butte County. The preliminary draft maps will help community officials and local residents identify known flood risks and when finalized, will be used for flood insurance, land use planning and development decisions.
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill announced today that the Intercounty Electric Cooperative Association has been awarded a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant of $1,121,372 to help recover from storm damage.
The Dayton City Council approved hiring a consulting firm to assist the city with its appeal with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to recover $1.6 million that was spent on Hurricane Ike debris removal.
MINNEAPOLIS----In light of a nationwide flood zone re-mapping effort by the Federal Emergency Management Agency , Wolters Kluwer Financial Services announced today the company’s Flood Wiz flood hazard determination and certification solution has been updated with new mapping data to help financial institutions ensure life of loan compliance.
School districts, the port authority, a county and a university are among Mississippi's first entities to use the Federal Emergency Management Agency's new fast-track route to settle disputes over cleanup costs from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Tioga County residents are invited to review the county's new, preliminary flood map at an "Open House" on December 8th at the county office building between 4pm and 8pm. The meeting is being hosted by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which developed the new maps to provide residents with a realistic assessment ...
Admitting you have a problem is the first step toward fixing it - except for the city of Redding and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). For them, it's the first step toward dodging responsibility and sticking hapless homeowners with shocking new bills.That's the upshot for neighbors of Olney Creek in south Redding, where the federal push to inspect levees is doing nothing to make ...
While thousands of residents in Oxnard and Fillmore were given a two-year reprieve last week from having to buy flood insurance, the hundreds of Moorpark residents within FEMA’s new flood plain boundaries didn’t get a similar break.Last Tuesday, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials backed off implementing a final map outlining areas in Oxnard and Fillmore at risk in a 100-year flood ...
About three dozen Iowa families face a Jan. 1 deadline to begin paying rent on temporary housing they’ve been living in since the June 2008 floods, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said Wednesday. That’s an extra rent-free month. FEMA announced in October its mobile homes could remain in Iowa through next June, but tenants would [...]
