PANAMA CITY, Fla. — FEMA has approved nearly $70 million to reimburse the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) for Hurricane Michael recovery work.

PONCE, Puerto Rico – Free legal assistance and crisis counseling services are available to residents affected by the Dec. 28 to Feb. 4 earthquakes.

Crisis counseling is available to residents of Adjuntas, Cabo Rojo, Corozal, Guánica, Guayanilla, Jayuya, Lajas, Lares, Maricao, Peñuelas, Ponce, San Germán, San Sebastián, Utuado, Villalba and Yauco.

WASHINGTON - The scarcity of medical resources in the fight against COVID-19 is a global issue. The United States is competing for the same resources as many other countries.

WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA are announcing the funding notice for an additional $100 million in supplemental Emergency Management Performance Grant Program funds.

DENVER – Built in 1904, Rattlesnake Creek Dam played an integral part of the water supply for the City of Missoula, Montana. But at more than a century old, the dam is no longer in use and is a potential hazard to its environment and local community. Without its removal, FEMA estimates Rattlesnake Dam could cause more than $6 million in damages if it failed.

WASHINGTON – The whole-of-America response to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic continued throughout the weekend and today, as FEMA Project Airbridge flights arrived in Chicago with essential medical supplies, and National Guardsmen helped deliver food to needy families in Cincinnati and served at COVID-19 testing sites in Jacksonville, Fla.  Over the weekend, U.S. Navy Sailors aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy held Easter services aboard the ship’s flight deck while it’s stationed in Los Angeles. 

Due to actions adopted to combat the coronavirus, earthquake survivors will receive more time to apply for disaster assistance.

Puerto Rico residents who had losses or damage to their homes or property from the earthquakes have until May 31 to apply for FEMA disaster assistance.

Even a slight chance of flooding can pose too great a threat to the delivery of services provided by a temporary critical facility.  Examples include temporary medical services which are not limited to hospitals, medical sheltering, and mortuary facilities.  In many situations, these critical facilities are likely to have occupants who may not be sufficiently mobile to evacuate in order to avoid injury or death during a flood. Site considerations for such facilities must include an evaluation of flood risk.

The Office of Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation is committed to facilitating timely and prompt compliance reviews for COVID-19 activities. This includes identifying activity types where the applicant will need to provide minimal information or documentation in order to conduct an environmental and historic preservation review.

GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico – FEMA and the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience, or COR3, have obligated an additional $19.4 million in funds for 105 projects related to the recovery and reconstruction of Puerto Rico due to Hurricane María. These funds were obligated between April 3 and April 9.

FEMA’s Office of Equal Rights will be hosting regular teleconferences concerning the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) response, to share information and to hear civil rights-related concerns. OER will be joined by FEMA’s Office of Disability Integration and Coordination (ODIC) who will provide updates on their regional coordination activities, as well as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

DENVER – This week, FEMA approved Colorado’s Mitigation Plan.  For the first time the plan meets the criteria for “enhanced” status, signifying the state’s commitment to hazard mitigation and making the state eligible for increased federal mitigation funding. Colorado will be the third state in FEMA Region VIII and the fifteenth nationwide to achieve the designation.

Established by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the International Reagent Resource provides resources for surveillance of and detection of influenza and other respiratory pathogens to laboratories with documented training and competency. The organization acquires, authenticates, and produces reagents that scientists need to carry out basic research and develop improved diagnostic tests, vaccines, and detection methods. The IRR is under contract by American Type Culture Collection (ATCC).

Under the President’s March 13, 2020, COVID-19 emergency declaration1 and subsequent major disaster declarations for COVID-19, state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government entities and certain private non-profit (PNP) organizations are eligible to apply for assistance under the FEMA Public Assistance (PA) Program. This policy is applicable to eligible PA applicants only and is exclusive to emergency and major disaster declarations for the COVID- 19 pandemic.

WASHINGTON — FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been made available for the state of Wyoming to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic beginning on January 20, 2020 and continuing.

WASHINGTON – The whole-of-America response to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic continued today, as FEMA Project Airbridge flights arrived in Chicago with essential medical supplies, postal workers processed and delivered mail and National Guardsmen continued to support response efforts in West Virginia, Oregon and Arizona.

U.S. National Guardsmen are serving at testing facilities, state and local emergency management agencies and operations centers, providing logistics support aand assisting with disinfecting common public spaces.

Dear Hospital Administrator: 
F irst, I want to thank you for the work you are doing to provide treatment and care to Americans who have been impacted by COVID-19.  Hospitals  are key partners  with the federal  government as we work to ensure that the Whole of America  response to COVID-19  which  is locally executed, state managed, and federally supported.

Even in the best of times, getting food on the table is a major concern for families in need. Now, measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have added to the anxieties of not only those families but those now finding themselves without income. With nonessential businesses ordered to close, followed by rounds of layoffs and furloughs, the previously employed are now swelling the ranks of those requiring food assistance.

WASHINGTON – The whole-of-America response to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic continued today.  Sailors aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy, deployed to Los Angeles, is supporting the nation’s COVID-19 response by serving as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients admitted to shore-based hospitals.

WASHINGTON — FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been made available for the state of Idaho to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic beginning on January 20, 2020 and continuing.