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The seaside ledge where Bob Blackwood's house stands was first developed as a hotel and a cottage around 1885. It's only 65 feet from mean high tide, but set high enough that waves haven't damaged it through more than a century of hurricanes and winter storms. The Federal Emergency Management Agency isn't impressed by that history.
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Few living in the Buffalo Niagara region during the "October Surprise" storm in 2006 will forget the extensive damage wreaked by felled trees, power lines and scattered debris, not to mention the hardships of power outages for several days or weeks, depending on the area. Officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency have no such memories, so they've disconnected from near-term history with a preliminary audit indicating that the City of Buffalo should reimburse the federal government nearly $4 million in disaster aid because local officials did not wait an entire week before cleaning up the mess.
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As Kentucky residents dig out from under mounds of debris left in the wake of the January ice storm, state government is using a string of superlatives to describe the storm variously as the biggest, the worst and the most cutting edge in the state's history. The Kentucky Division of Emergency Management and the Federal Emergency Management Agency estimate costs associated with the ice storm could reach more than $214 million statewide. It is also blamed for the deaths of 36 people in Kentucky.
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Louisiana will be the site of the largest home-elevation project in American history, said the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which today awarded the state $96.5 million to elevate homes in the wake of the 2005 hurricanes. FEMA approved the use of the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funds, which will be used to elevate nearly 3,000 homes devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Making the announcement today were FEMA, the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the Louisiana Office of Community Development and the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
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The Obama administration seems to have learned the lessons of the Bush team's disastrous bungling of the resettling of Hurricane Katrina's tens of thousands of refugees. Under former President George W. Bush, the task of resettling those whose homes were destroyed by the storm and floods in 2005 was initially given to the Federal Emergency Management Agency instead of to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has a long history of housing poor and displaced people through its voucher program. That grave mistake led to a plan that turned many survivors into wanderers who moved from place to place, cut off from jobs and schools. Washington will need to be more helpful if New Orleans and the Gulf region in general are to recover, not just from the storm, but from the damage...
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Bureaucracies, by nature, are bumbling beasts. Nowhere in the annals of modern American history is there a better example than the performance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the case of Hurricane Katrina versus The Gulf Coast.
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VIRGINIA BEACH - Jr., 54, lost his fight against acute lymphoblastic leukemia March 12, 2009. A native Virginian, Paul was born in Virginia Beach June 25, 1954, to Paul Sr. and Mary Jane Pokorski. Paul attended Star of the Sea Catholic School with his sister, Anna (Cam), before attending First Colonial High School and meeting the love of his life, Catherine Ann Etheridge. Paul joined the Virginia Beach Fire Department in 1973 after three years as a volunteer fireman. Following 34 years of dedicated service, Paul retired from the Virginia Beach Fire Department (2007), and was employed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a site safety director. Paul's lifelong passion for Virginia and Southern history led him to dedicate 20 years of his life as an active livi...
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Hundreds of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Colorado Springs, alarmed by letters that the city will stop paying their rent seven months earlier than promised, demanded answers at a public meeting Wednesday. Some left City Auditorium reassured they won't soon be homeless. Many others were frustrated by a lack of firm answers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is struggling to deal with the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.
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MILFORD, Beaver County -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency has reimbursed Utah for the costs of the largest wildfire in state history. FEMA announced Thursday it reimbursed Utah's Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands more than $1.1 million for costs associated with fighting the Milford Flat fire. FEMA agreed to pay 75 percent of the fire suppression costs, the agency said.
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DAYTON -- A 34-member group of Ohio firefighters, paramedics, civil engineers and physicians coordinated through Dayton was working on the frontline of the rescue efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday night. The natural disaster is being termed the worst in U.S. history by officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Bellbrook Fire Chief Scott Hall, spokesman for Ohio Task Force One.
