All the headlines from our FEMA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 20 2007 // Fourteen more Kansas counties are eligible for individual federal assistance to help recover from severe storms and flooding in the last few months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says McPherson, Smith and...
Jul 17 2007 // Nearly 18,000 occupants of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) travel trailers and mobile homes in Louisiana have shown interested in purchasing their units, the agency has reported.In an effort to help displaced...
Jul 12 2007 // Federal officials plan to survey damage and talk to residents this week in flood-ravaged neighborhoods in Bartlesville and Dewey, Okla., where more than 3,000 people were displaced when the Caney River flooded its banks...
Jul 6 2007 // Hidalgo County, Texas, officials are moving to block the release of an updated Rio Grande flood plain map that would force property owners to buy flood insurance.The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to release the...
Jul 2 2007 // Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff joined governors from Mississippi and Alabama in appealing for Gulf Coast residents to get prepared for the height of hurricane season.Some 400 delegates to the three-day...
Jul 2 2007 // In the nearly two years since Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee failures brought widespread criticism of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA has been dedicated to building a stronger, more nimble and...
Jul 2 2007 // In the nearly two years since Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee failures brought widespread criticism of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA has been dedicated to building a stronger, more nimble and...
Jul 2 2007 // In the nearly two years since Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee failures brought widespread criticism of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA has been dedicated to building a stronger, more nimble and...
Jun 28 2007 // Federal Emergency Management Agency officials received grant applications from nearly 16,000 New Jerseyans whose homes were flooded in April.Monday. June 25, was the deadline to apply. FEMA approved nearly $17 million in...
Jun 27 2007 // A preliminary assessment of storm damage to public structures in Montana’s Valley and Musselshell counties and on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation came to about $226,600, which is not enough to qualify for federal...
Jun 14 2007 // Since the National Flood Insurance Program does not collect data on both wind and flood damage claims from its insurers, it’s not possible to know if its billions of dollars in payments on hurricane-damaged...
Jun 4 2007 // With Katrina memories still fresh, Alabama Gulf Coast residents have begun stockpiling ice, water, food and other supplies just in case this hurricane season turns ugly.FEMA also will have disaster relief supplies stored...
Jun 4 2007 // Officials in the Delta have accused the government of trying to scare local residents into buying flood insurance by suggesting the Mississippi River levees could be breached as were those around New Orleans during...
Jun 4 2007 // Officials in the Delta have accused the government of trying to scare local residents into buying flood insurance by suggesting the Mississippi River levees could be breached as were those around New Orleans during...
May 29 2007 // Officials in the Delta have accused the government of trying to scare local residents into buying flood insurance by suggesting the Mississippi River levees could be breached as were those around New Orleans during...
May 29 2007 // Nine more Kansas counties have been declared eligible for federal assistance to repair public facilities damaged by this month’s violent weather. The declaration by the Federal Emergency Management Agency applies to...
May 23 2007 // Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., campaigning in Florida, said this week the federal government needs to do more to prepare for disasters and that she favors the creation of a national...
May 18 2007 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is more prepared than ever for the 2007 hurricane season, having at the ready helicopters, generators, disaster medical teams and road clearing crews to react within hours, according...
May 18 2007 // Terri Rose was living comfortably with her four children when 2004’s Hurricane Frances ripped a hole in the family’s roof. A few weeks later, Hurricane Jeanne soaked everything. Their home was condemned, then...
May 14 2007 // More than $1 million in disaster assistance has been approved so far for New Hampshire residents hit by last month’s flooding. About 1,000 households have applied for help. So far, FEMA has approved about $1.1...