Latest FEMA Headlines
All the headlines from our FEMA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Houston Man Charged in Katrina Claims Filing Scam with FEMA
Dec 19 2005 // United States Attorney Chuck Rosenberg announced the filing of criminal charges against Clifford Neville, 53, of Houston, Texas, for reportedly filing false claims for emergency disaster funds with the Federal Emergency...
FEMA Urges Floridians to Buy Flood Insurance; Floods #1 on List of U.S. Natural Disasters
Dec 6 2005 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a plea urging all Florida residents that own property designated by the National Flood Insurance Program as being in a high-risk flood area they need to obtain flood...
FEMA to Hold Briefing on the Progress of Assisting Evacuees in Texas Toward Long-Term Recovery
Nov 30 2005 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced it will hold a teleconference on Wed., Nov. 30, 11:30 a.m. to discuss the progress of moving evacuees in Texas toward independence. FEMA had launched a massive...
More Help on the Way for Hurricane Evacuees in Texas
Nov 24 2005 // Evacuees from hurricanes Katrina and Rita living in Texas now have another way to help themselves move toward recovery through the Housing, Employment, Location, and Placement (HELP) Program, which is available from the...
Disaster Recovery Officials on the Prowl for Fraudulent Claims After Hurricanes
Nov 24 2005 // Numerous federal agencies have dispatched teams of special agents to investigate fraudulent claims from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency...
FEMA Extends Hotel Deadline in 10 States After Sharp Criticism
Nov 22 2005 // Trying to shed its Scrooge image, FEMA announced on Tuesday that it would extend an originally announced December deadline until Jan. 7 for Hurricane Katrina and Rita victims to leave hotels in 10 states they are presently...
FEMA Pushing Dec. 1 Motel Check-Out for 53,000 Hurricane Families
Nov 16 2005 // The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is moving to end its subsidies for hotel and motel rooms for 53,000 families displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. On Dec. 1, 2005...
Study Accuses FEMA of Lax Implementation of Flood Program Changes Passed in 2004
Oct 19 2005 // A government report has found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administers the national flood insurance program, has not fully implemented reforms mandated by Congress in 2004, including improved...
Nine S. Floridians Charged for Making False Claims to FEMA
Oct 11 2005 // Nine Broward County residents have been charged in Fort Lauderdale with defrauding the Federal Emergency Assistance Agency by obtaining disaster relief after Hurricane Frances made landfall last year almost 100 miles away....
FEMA Tightens Policy on Flood Safety
Oct 3 2005 // A new federal policy outlined a week before Hurricane Katrina struck could force residents in hundreds of communities nationwide to buy flood insurance and halt construction in some low-lying areas, including parts of...
PCI Urges FEMA to Create ‘MASH’ Units in La.
Sep 21 2005 // Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency to establish centralized locations in Louisiana to aid the recovery effort and serve as coordinating centers for the...
FEMA Tightens Policy on Flood Safety
Sep 20 2005 // A new federal policy outlined a week before Hurricane Katrina struck could force residents in hundreds of communities nationwide to buy flood insurance and halt construction in some low-lying areas, including parts of...
FEMA DENIES KATRINA VICTIMS AID
Sep 19 2005 // South Floridians whose homes were destroyed or heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina have to look elsewhere for someone to pay their lodging and repair expenses as the Federal Emergency Management Agency has refused their...
Former FEMA Director Witt to Lead N.Y. Catastrophe Coalition
Sep 19 2005 // James Lee Witt, the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, today announced the formation of a state coalition to better prepare and protect New Yorkers from the consequences of a catastrophic storm,...
FEMA’s Brown Being Taken Off Hurricane Katrina Operations
Sep 9 2005 // With much discussion over just how quickly and effectively the federal government responded to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown may be the fall guy. Brown was...
News Briefs
Sep 5 2005 // FLORIDA Report Shows Car Theft Decreased in Most of Southeast Across the Southeast in major metropolitan areas auto theft decreas-ed dramatically in 2004, accompan-ied by a slight drop in auto theft nationally, according...
Okla. Communities Plan for Disaster Reduction with Mitigation Grants
Sep 1 2005 // Michael Brown, under secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced recently that FEMA has awarded 11 mitigation grants in...
Fla. 2004 Hurricane Recovery Passes $5.6 Billion Mark
Aug 18 2005 // One year after Hurricane Charley made landfall as the first of four major hurricanes to strike Florida, federal and state disaster assistance totals more than $5.6 billion, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s...
Fla. Medical Examiners Justify 135 of 306 Funerals Paid for by FEMA
Aug 12 2005 // Florida Medical Examiners meeting in Key Biscayne, Fla. maintain their autopsies and investigations show that no more than 135 deaths in Florida were hurricane-related, while FEMA the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Miamian Receives Probation for Making Fraudulent $1,452 FEMA Claim
Aug 10 2005 // Aaron Brown, a Miami man sentenced to probation in Dade County, Miami, Fla., has become the second member of his family convicted of fraudulently obtaining federal disaster money for Hurricane Frances last fall. According...
