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Noem Defends FEMA Response to Texas Floods

The homeland security secretary said a report that thousands of calls to a disaster hotline went unanswered because of staffing cuts was “false.”

USA TODAY on MSN · 16h

Noem defends policies amid reports FEMA didn't answer thousands of flood survivor calls

Kristi Noem is denying reports that claim her policies held up the government’s emergency response in the days following the July 4 Texas floods.

POLITICO on MSN · 19h

Noem fights criticism of FEMA management in Texas flood response

It’s discouraging that during this time when we have such a loss of life, and so many people’s lives have turned upside down, that people are playing politics with this,” Noem told NBC's Kristen Welker.

FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings

The Associated Press on MSN · 1d

FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show

The July Fourth flood moved so quickly in the middle of the night that it caught many off guard in a county that lacked a warning system.

The Washington Post on MSN · 12h

FEMA approved Camp Mystic appeals to remove buildings from flood zone

Camp Mystic successfully appealed to remove several structures from a FEMA flood zone, despite being located in a high-risk flood area in Texas Hill Country.

Mercury News · 1d

FEMA OK’d requests to move Camp Mystic buildings from flood map

Experts say Camp Mystic’s requests to amend the FEMA map could have been an attempt to avoid the requirement to carry flood insurance, to lower the camp’s insurance premiums or to pave

WJTV on MSN3d

How prepared is Mississippi for severe weather?

Deadly flash flooding in Central Texas has put other states on high alert when it comes to finding preventative measures for ...

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that ...

Mississippi Today11dOpinion

FEMA’s beginnings trace to great 1927 Mississippi River flood, but now may be on chopping block

President Trump is not the first to downplay providing federal emergency relief. During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, ...

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‘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 ...

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Mississippi communities to see FEMA flood determination revisions

FEMA said the changes involve BFEs, SFHA boundaries, and other designations shown on the latest FIRMs in the Coast city listed as "Gulf of America to Mississippi Sound – an area centered at ...

WDAM on MSN13d

MEMA closing more recovery centers in Mississippi

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency is closing down three of the five recovery centers left open in Mississippi ...

WJTV Jackson on MSN4d

Mississippi farmers encouraged to apply for disaster aid

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture program will begin to distribute $16 ...

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FEMA records show Kerr County didn't alert all cellphones as flooding began

FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s system to send warnings to phones in the critical hours as the ...

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FEMA search and rescue teams take days to reach Texas after flooding as agency faces overhaul

Multiple urban search and rescue teams from across the country that responded to the deadly floods in central Texas told CNN they were not deployed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency until at ...

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