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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Federal grants for wildfire control efforts in the Oakland hills are being delayed for further environmental review. The Federal Emergency Management Agency had awarded highly competitive grants of more than $5 million to Oakland, the University of California, Berkeley and the East Bay Regional Park District for costly removal of eucalyptus, pine and acacia trees. But FEMA ...
Alabama is the first state impacted by Hurricane Katrina to close its recovery office. The Alabama Emergency Management Agency, which is based in Clanton, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been working to provide the necessary assistance to facilitate the recovery process.
Fillmore is considering asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help residents get refunds on flood insurance they bought at FEMA’s insistence, but which the agency is no longer requiring until at least 2011.FEMA initially required nearly 1,300 Fillmore homeowners and business owners to obtain the insurance by Jan. 20 because Ventura County officials determined that the Sespe Creek ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will review an audit report on how the city of Memphis spent $13 million in FEMA money after widespread windstorm damage in 2003.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced it would conduct land surveys in Atlantic and other counties for a new flood study.
FEMA's preliminary maps for the parish show more homeowners in the flood zone. But the parish says the maps are wrong and some mortgage companies are enforcing the maps.
DUBUQUE (KWWL) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency offers up some tips to prepare for power outages and also what to do if your power does go out.
Linn County finalized 11 buyouts of flood-damaged rural homes on Monday. Russell and Linda Keast lost their house east of Palo in the flood, lived in a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer for a few months, bought a new house, and finally signed over their old home to the county on Monday. “It’s still sitting there,” Russell [...]
PRINCETON - Selectmen last night agreed to another six months of short-term borrowing for ice storm costs while awaiting additional reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and for the state's portion of reimbursement.
FEMA has agreed to pay at least 75 percent of the cost for repairing or replacing damaged public buildings, roads, bridges, and more throughout Hampton Roads.
SOUTH WILLIAMSON, Ky. – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has begun the process of revoking certification on two floodwalls in South Williamson following a mandate from the federal gov...
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