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Uncertainty of future FEMA disaster funding alarms Bay Area emergency planners
On a FEMA color-coded hazard map, Alameda, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties are shaded dark red, indicating an area with ...
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Welch unveils bill to reform FEMA
Vermont Business Magazine U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont) on Wednesday unveiled the Disaster Assistance Improvement and ...
Senator Welch to introduce bill aiming to improve FEMA’s long-term disaster recovery
Senator Welch said cutting that red tape will give more power to the towns that need to act quickly following a severe ...
‘We’ve been ghosted by FEMA’: Officials across country say they can’t get answers on critical funding
As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of ...
Storm warning: Will a shrunken FEMA and NOAA be able to respond?
May, FEMA had 1,952 trained staffers ready to deploy to disasters; a year earlier, it had 6,588. Meanwhile, NOAA has lost about 20% of staff, including hundreds of National Weather Service employees.
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FEMA delays and funding cuts leave state emergency programs in limbo
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